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LifePoint Health Emphasizes Team-Based Care by Constructing a Dyad-Style Leadership Model
Creating a successful dyad model requires staying ‘in sync,’ finding balance, and great listening, says the CNO-CMO partnership. If nurse leaders in the LifePoint Health system need guidance, they don’t automatically go to Michelle Watson, senior vice president and chief nursing officer (CNO); they also can get the information they need from Christopher Rehm, MD, senior vice president and chief medical officer (CMO). That’s because Watson and Rehm together oversee all clinical, quality, and patient safety initiatives through a singular clinical lens—a dyad leadership model. LifePoint, a Brentwood, Tennessee-based private healthcare network operating 63 community hospital campuses, 30 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of…
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UnitedHealth Group 2021 Sustainability Report Includes New Health Equity and Environmental Health Commitments
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) today released its 2021 Sustainability Report detailing the company’s ongoing commitment to helping meet the needs of those it serves, including customers, employees, shareholders and society broadly. “This year’s report demonstrates how UnitedHealth Group is helping to improve the lives of the people and communities we serve through the work carried out each day by our 350,000 team members,” said Patricia L. Lewis, executive vice president and chief sustainability officer, UnitedHealth Group. “As a leading health care organization, we recognize there is more work to be done. We continue to prioritize our responsibility to help advance sustainability efforts through community partnerships and systemwide collaboration — working…
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You, Your Family and Cancer: How Genetic Counseling Works | Health & Fitness
SUNDAY, June 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If you have a family history of cancer and are considering genetic counseling to measure your risk for the disease, an expert offers some advice. Genetic counseling can help you understand your family’s cancer history and how it applies to you, said Tanya Eble, an associate professor of molecular and human genetics and a genetic counselor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She outlined a number of red flags for hereditary cancer in a person’s individual or family history. Cancer diagnosed at an early age — for example, breast cancer diagnosed before menopause. Rare cancers like ovarian or pancreatic cancer and cancers…
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Summer fun heats up at BPRD with free fitness week, health fair’s return, new outdoor classes
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Summer is a great time to focus on health and wellbeing. To help, Bend Park and Recreation District is launching new programs and bringing back a past favorite. The district’s annual Summer Kickoff Free Fitness event runs June 13-19 and features more than 35 no-cost fitness classes at Juniper Swim & Fitness Center and Larkspur Community Center. The broad selection of classes allows patrons to experience a little bit of everything the two fitness facilities have to offer. Classes are scheduled daily from 5:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and include: Zumba Intro to TRX/TRX Circuit Vinyasa Yoga Deep or Shallow Water Workouts Stretch and Flex Bootcamp Conditioning…
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Review of Mark Coeckelbergh, “Self-Improvement”
Mark Coeckelbergh, a professor of philosophy of media and technology at the University of Vienna, has written a great deal about the digital tools and means of communication that many of us tend to call “new,” though he clearly has misgivings about that term. “New” is a label concealing more than it identifies. “Eventually,” he writes, “these technologies are no longer experienced as ‘new,’ since they have been integrated in, and transformed, our form of life … Learning the technology and learning the culture are no longer two entirely different things. There is no longer a gap between using digital technologies and making sense of and in this world.” That point…
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Hall Of Fame Health Announces Five Additions To Medical Advisory Board
CANTON, OHIO – Hall of Fame Health, an affiliate of the Pro Football Hall of Fame focused on bringing world-class services and solutions to former football players and their families, today announces the addition of five physicians to its esteemed Medical Advisory Board. These physicians, who include a former Surgeon General of the United States, are renowned leaders committed to the efforts of Hall of Fame Health and represent broad geographies, medical specialties and areas of emphasis. They are Jerome Adams, MD; Ravi Bashyal, MD, FAAOS; Nicole Christian-Brathwaite, MD; Peggy Duggan, MD; and MaCalus V. Hogan, MD, MBA. Hall of Fame Health, which launched in early 2020, announced its initial…
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Can I Withhold Medical Care From a Bigot?
Let me note, too, that the freight of words is affected by who’s speaking them. Patients — perhaps as a result of sepsis-associated delirium or certain neurological disorders — may not be in control of their speech; people who are subject to Tourette-syndrome-related coprolalia should not be denied medical treatment because their words make clinicians uncomfortable. And your patient? She had a problem with substance use and employed language that is, increasingly, stigmatizing of the user. She had no power over the clinicians who attended to her and to whose decisions she was subject. One indication of her lack of status is that your hospital’s risk managers evidently decided that…
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Companion Walking Is Key to Long-Term Health for Aging People
As a geriatric kinesiologist, I believe companion walking is the secret to helping older adults move more. Edna, a 92-year-old woman who lived in an assisted living community, sat next to her window every day, watching other residents go in and out on permitted outings. She used a walker to get around but mostly stayed glued to her window, anticipating the day she would be cleared to go outside for a walk. Suddenly, Edna heard a knock on her door with a friendly, “Hello? Mrs. Edna, are you awake? I am here to take you out for a walk. My name is Mercedes. I am one of the fitness trainers…
