These will be but some of the topics addressed in a television show produced by Glendale Adventist Hospital. The premiere of “HealthLine” will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday and will air on public access Charter Cable Channel 280 and on the hospital’s website, www.glendaleadventist.org/healthline. Taped shows will be broadcast through Oct. 13, after which the show will go live. Funding for the program has been secured indefinitely, according to the hospital’s marketing department.
Hosted by Gregory Zarian, a Glendale resident, actor and model (whose father, Larry, also has his own show on the public access channel and is on the hospital board of directors) and KFWB-AM (980) news radio reporter and La Cañada Flintridge resident Susanne Whatley, the program’s goal is to offer information vital to good health. For its live episodes, the one-hour show will take calls and e-mails from viewers. Public opinion, Glendale Adventist Chief Executive Morre Dean said, will determine which future topics will be featured.
“I see it as an opportunity for people to get local health information,” Whatley said. “A lot of people hear about medical treatments or innovations that are available at nationally known health institutions, but they may not be familiar with what’s available to them locally.”
And while Zarian and Whatley are not medical professionals, they will seek the knowledge of doctors, nurses and practitioners within the Glendale Adventist community, as well as online resources, to help address the topic of any given show and to answer questions the public might have.
“I think if you get medical professionals out there, they’re talking jargon that we don’t get,” Zarian said, adding that the show is about making medical topics easy to understand.
A lot the information will also be personal, Zarian said.
