Creating a Health and Well-Being Culture: What Hospitals and Senior Communities Can Do

Recently stakeholders from strategic and geographic aligned acute care and senior living organizations came together to work collaboratively to answer the question “How can hospitals and senior living providers work better together?” Attendees of The Role of Acute Care and Senior Living in an Integrated Healthcare Delivery System Roundtable, were eager to collaborate, knowing the results could be significant. As I’ve mentioned in previous blogs, acute care hospitals and senior living providers are grappling with new realities: our elders are living longer and want to live healthier, while the government is challenging providers to do more with less.

Aligning Needs and Expectations: Best Practices for Acute Care and Senior Care Collaboration

The desire and necessity to improve seniors’ healthcare experience presents both opportunity and motivation for improved collaboration between acute and senior care providers. Recently a roundtable brought together stakeholders from strategic and geographic aligned acute care and senior living organizations to work collaboratively together to answer the question “How can hospitals and senior living providers work better together?”

Integrated Performance Report Reflects Significant Ways Medtronic Creates Value to Society

At Medtronic, our Mission compels us to play a leadership role in solving global healthcare challenges. Our thoughtful approach to therapy innovation, globalization, and economic value – combined with smart financial management and good corporate citizenship – creates value to society in significant ways.

In particular, we create value by increasing access to care, advancing patient safety, maintaining financial strength, and investing in our communities. Our performance related to these issues is detailed in the Company’s FY2015 Integrated Performance Report, “Further, Together.”

Global Pharmaceutical Industry Calls on Governments to Work with Them to Beat the Rising Threat of Drug Resistance

More than 80 leading international pharmaceutical, generics, diagnostics and biotechnology companies, as well as key industry bodies, have come together to call on governments and industry to work in parallel in taking comprehensive action against drug-resistant infections – so-called ‘superbugs’ – with a joint declaration launched today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The statement sets out for the first time how governments and industry need to work together to support sustained investment in the new products needed to beat the challenges of rising drug resistance. Read more here: http://ow.ly/XmTlB

The American Art Therapy Association Endorses the Use of Dover Coloring & Activity Books in a Self-Care Regimen

Dover Publications is proud to announce that the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) supports the idea that coloring is beneficial as a self-care activity.

New Year, New Name: Why We're Changing our Health Campaign Name

We’re now at the mid-way point of our exciting ten-city, two year campaign, announced earlier this year, to promote business-led community initiatives – and we’re seeing great momentum.

Making a Date For Behaviour Change

Every year the National Health Service loses a staggering £950m because of missed appointments, or DNAs (did not attends) – no-shows who fail to cancel their appointments. Twelve million GP appointments are missed at a cost of £162m and 7.1m hospital appointments at a cost of £788m. Not only do missed appointments incur financial losses in terms of underused specialists and equipment, and increased administration costs, but the patient population loses slots that are in high demand and the patients who DNA do not get the healthcare they need.

Mindfulness and Engaged Creativity: A Best in Integrative Medicine

Caroline Peterson, a Board-Certified Art Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor, looks beyond the commodification of mindfulness and discusses the deep relationship between art therapy and mindfulness practice. Citing history, research, and evidence-based outcomes in areas like mindfulness-based art therapy (MBAT), she identifies the combination of the two approaches as a "powerful compass" that can lead to personal growth and understanding.

Helping America’s Employers Empower Better Health with Blueprint for Wellness

We’re proud to be leading the way in customizing and personalizing health data in the workplace. Our award-winning and industry-leading Blueprint for Wellness health risk-assessment tool—offered annually to our own employees and commercially to other employers—has been enhanced to allow for greater customization and population health management by employers.

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