Classes, Events & Groups

Topic: Rehab After a Stroke - presentation and tour of the rehab gym

Agnesian HealthCare's Dale Michels Center for Heart Care and Primary Stroke Center offer this free support and educational opportunity for those touched by heart disease or stroke. 

Guest speakers include professionals in the field of cardiac and stroke care. In addition, print materials and class discussion provide up-to-date information for patients, family and friends.

Preregistration for this free group is required.

Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers CPR teaches healthcare providers the skills of CPR for victims of all ages (including ventilation with a barrier device, a bag-mask device and oxygen), use of an AED and relief of foreign-body airway obstruction in responsive and non-responsive victims. A course completion card is given upon successful completion of a practical and written exam.

Resolve through Sharing®- Educational Support Group 

This group is intended for individuals who have experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, or death of a child less than 1-year-old. Talking about a death can be difficult and the Resolve through Sharing® Grief Support Group gives you an opportunity to share your experience with others who understand. This group provides a safe environment to share feelings such as guilt, anger, fear, or loneliness.

Please join us at the Bereavement Center behind Twohig Flooring America, near the Kwik Trip on the west side of Fond du Lac.

Registration is not required for open groups.

Agnesian HealthCare and the Fond du Lac Family YMCA are partnering with Walk With a Doc to create a safe, walkable community.

The collaborative mission is to encourage healthy physical activity in people of all ages, and reverse the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle in order to improve the health and well-being of the country.

Join providers on Monday through Friday between 8 and 9:30 a.m.; the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month between 5 and 6 p.m.; and Wednesdays between 4 to 5 p.m. to begin your commitment of improved health and well-being.

In addition, Ripon Medical Center providers will be walking at Ripon High School, 850 Tiger Drive, Ripon, the first and third Wednesdays of the month between 6 to 7 p.m.

Step it Up! The Surgeon General of the United States recommends 150 minutes of weekly exercise to:

• Lower your risk of heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, breast and colon cancers, and depression
• Maintain or lose weight
• Boost your energy
• Improve your sleep
• Reduce stress
• Redue your risk of falls
• Delay the onset of cognitive decline and dementia
• Increase sense of well-being and more!

For more information, call (920) 926-4961, visit agnesian.com/walk-with-a-doc or visit walkwithadoc.org.

*Our providers do their best to be at the Forest Mall and Ripon High School at the times indicated. However, due to emergencies or unforeseen circumstance, there might be a time where they are not present.

Open Bereavement Support Group: This group is intended for individuals who are grieving the death of someone closes to them, whether the death was two months or two year ago. Group provides a safe environment to share feelings such as guilt, anger, fear, or loneliness.

Please join us at the Bereavement Center behind Twohig Flooring America, near the Kwik Trip on the west side of Fond du Lac.

Registration is not required for open groups.

Walk with a Doc and Agnesian HealthCare encourage healthy physical activity in people of all ages, and reverse the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle in order to improve the health and well-being of the country.

Join a provider on the first, second and third Wednesday of each month from 6 to 7 p.m., and every Tuesday and Thursday from 5 to 6 p.m. to begin your commitment of improved health and well-being.

Step it Up! The Surgeon General of the United States recommends 150 minutes of weekly exercise to:

• Lower your risk of heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, breast and colon cancers, and depression
• Maintain or lose weight
• Boost your energy
• Improve your sleep
• Reduce stress
• Redue your risk of falls
• Delay the onset of cognitive decline and dementia
• Increase sense of well-being and more!

For more information, call the Health Resource Centerat (920) 926-4961, visit agnesian.com/walk-with-a-doc or visit walkwithadoc.org.

Join us to learn more about advance care planning - the process of considering values and wishes, and making decisions about the care we would like to receive at the end of our life. Communicating our wishes with family, other loved ones and providers is one way to ensure our decisions are carried out.

Individuals can complete their Power of Attorney for Health Care free of charge.

Preregistration is not required. 

Agnesian HealthCare and the Fond du Lac Family YMCA are partnering with Walk With a Doc to create a safe, walkable community.

The collaborative mission is to encourage healthy physical activity in people of all ages, and reverse the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle in order to improve the health and well-being of the country.

Join a provider on the first, second and third Wednesday of each month from 6 to 7 p.m. to begin your commitment of improved health and well-being.

Step it Up! The Surgeon General of the United States recommends 150 minutes of weekly exercise to:

• Lower your risk of heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, breast and colon cancers, and depression
• Maintain or lose weight
• Boost your energy
• Improve your sleep
• Reduce stress
• Redue your risk of falls
• Delay the onset of cognitive decline and dementia
• Increase sense of well-being and more!

For more information, call the Health Resource Center at (920) 926-4961, visit agnesian.com/walk-with-a-doc or visit walkwithadoc.org.

*Our providers do their best to be at Ripon High School Forest Mall at the times indicated. However, due to emergencies or unforeseen circumstance, there might be a time where they are not present.

Open Bereavement Support Group: Anyone experiencing the death of a spouse/partner may attend any of the meetings and different individuals may be there each time.

Registration is not required for open groups.

Agnesian HealthCare's Breastfeeding for Moms & Dads class provides you and your partner with information to begin breastfeeding with confidence and a true sense of security. Topics include the advantages of breastfeeding, techniques, problem prevention, returning to work and the use of breast pumps for the nursing mother. 

Preregistration for this free class is required.