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Healthy Holiday Tips

Well, the Holidays are almost upon us and if you are anything like me…you are thinking about some of those delicious holiday treats and holiday gatherings with family and friends. Almost every event that you attend over the next several weeks will tempt your will power!! With all of the holiday hustle and bustle, exercise is often one of the first things to be cut from your busy routine. But remember even walking as little as 10 minutes a day can have a beneficial effect on your blood sugar, bl… Continue

Added by Carolyn Strimike on December 12, 2009 at 10:07pm — No Comments

"7 Mistakes Doctors Make When Trying to Attract New Patients From The Internet." Free video.

I presented a webinar yesterday for Henry Schein Medical customers about how to attract more patients from the Internet. We've since decided to make the recording available for free, for a limited time. http://www.healthcaresuccess.com/webinar-register.html While it was created for providers, the concepts apply to all healthcare organizations. Continue

Added by Stewart Gandolf on November 18, 2009 at 1:49pm — No Comments

Fat People Don’t Shop In Bookstores & Other Crazy Thoughts

Nice book, says B&N, we’ll keep it online. These types of books sell better online. Uh-oh. What type of books? FAT BOOKS? FOR FAT PEOPLE??? Fat people don’t shop for diet books. They shop for candy bars. If they’re in the bookstore, they avoid the diet books. When they want to buy diet books, they hide behind their computers and secretly buy fat books in the night. Been there, done that. It’s true. The Secret Life of An Addict. I will go anywhere in public to buy my addiction candy – any… Continue

Added by Sara L Stein MD on November 12, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Everyone's at Fault-Everybody's at Risk

In the healthcare insurance and healthcare reform debate (I consider the financial side a part of overall reform, but it is not the complete picture of reform) there are obviously sides that have been taken. On one side is the "'we need universal healthcare', 'we need a so-called 'public option'; 'healthcare is a right not a privilege', 'those bad health insurance companies are bringing us all down,'" contingency. You are familiar with this side or you subscribe (at least in part) to it so you… Continue

Added by Amri Johnson on October 30, 2009 at 1:23pm — No Comments

29 Ways to Successfully Ingrain a Behavior

Our daily lives are often a series of habits played out through the day, a trammeled existence fettered by the slow accretion of our previous actions. But habits can be changed, as difficult as that may seem sometimes. I’m a living example: in tiny, almost infinitesimal steps, I’ve changed a laundry list of habits. Quit smoking, stopped impulse spending, got out of debt, began running and waking early and eating healthier and becoming frugal and simplifying my life and becoming organized and f… Continue

Added by Pete Taylor 3 on October 24, 2009 at 8:01pm — No Comments

A Doctor that actually Endorses, Uses and Recommends Healthy Coffee to his Patients

A Doctor that actually Endorses, Uses and Recommends Healthy Coffee to his Patients. Dr. Hoover, NHD - watch the video below!

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Added by Pete Taylor 3 on October 24, 2009 at 8:01pm — No Comments

8 Ways of Checking How Strong Your Professional Network

How Strong Is Your Network?… Continue

Added by Pete Taylor 3 on October 18, 2009 at 1:26pm — 2 Comments

Eating Recovery Center Offers Insurance Guidance as U.S. Mental Health Parity Law Takes Effect

Denver-based behavioral hospital offers tools to make insurance providers a partner on the path to recovery Eating disorders became one of the many mental illnesses now due the same benefits as medical and surgical treatments, as the U.S. Wellstone/Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 took effect on Saturday, October 3, 2009. Eating Recovery Center (www.eatingrecoverycenter.com), a behavioral hospital providing comprehensive and sustainable treatment of eating disorder… Continue

Added by Crystal Thomas on October 13, 2009 at 4:09pm — No Comments

Mushrooms and Green Tea May Lower Breast-Cancer Risk

A recent study reported in the International Journal of Cancer suggests that wo… Continue

Added by Pete Taylor 3 on October 12, 2009 at 1:38am — No Comments

5 Teas Worth Trying with Extraordinary Health Benefits!

Healthy Teas th… Continue

Added by Pete Taylor 3 on October 11, 2009 at 8:14pm — No Comments

Coffee Making You Tired & Sleepy Instead of Energized?

These coffees are great for people that are… Continue

Added by Pete Taylor 3 on October 11, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Eating Recovery Center Honored as “Champions in Health Care” Award Recipient

Eating Recovery Center (www.eatingrecoverycenter.com), the only behavioral hospital in Colorado focused on comprehensive and sustainable treatment of eating disorders, was honored as a “Champion in Health Care” by the Denver Business Journal at… Continue

Added by Erik Keith on September 28, 2009 at 11:50am — No Comments

Useful Health Information from The Breast Diva!

1. 1 in 8 women in the USA get Breast Cancer; 1 in 6 if overweight, and 1 in 5 if obese! Obese is defined as a BMI of 30 and above. (BMI of 30 is about 30 pounds overweight.) 2. Women who are obese when they are diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer are at a greater risk of dying from the disease than women of normal weight. 3. Avoid sugar and refined carbohydrates. Sugar and refined carbs contribute to obesity and higher insulin levels and women with higher insulin levels have 283% higher… Continue

Added by The Breast Diva! on September 3, 2009 at 3:17pm — No Comments

Create a Shared Culture as Part of Your Overall Talent Management Strategy

Health care leaders need to employ patience and persistence if they're going to create a beneficial, shared culture in a growing system. Consistency Health care systems with a strong culture ensure that their environment is represented in all of its offices or operations. To achieve this, the organization must apply and measure the same processes, policies and rules throughout the field. If there is a significant variance, then the culture will not be seen as important or a contributing factor… Continue

Added by Vicki Z. Lauter on August 9, 2009 at 3:47pm — No Comments

Lactose Intolerance NO MORE!

Hello everyone!!! I know it's been a while, but I am gonna make it up to you guys by introducing a super brand of ice-cream - "Graeter's " It is SO delicious!You have to try their blackberry with chocolate chip, yummmy! I am so glad I am not lactose intolerance anymore, I can eat as much as ice-cream as I want and it's all thanks to "Lactagen"! Also, I am allowed to have as much as milkshakes I want after hitting the gym, and I don't think I need to tell you how great it feels. If you had read… Continue

Added by John Lawrence on August 7, 2009 at 6:23pm — No Comments

Culture and Quality IV

A couple months ago I began writing a series that I entitled Culture and Quality. As the conversation has evolved a new model has emerged. We have entitled it the: Diversity HealthWorks' Cultural Competence-Quality Framework for Healthcare Excellence. The premise of the model is based on what we have seen over the past year in the diversity dialogue in all industries including healthcare: contraction and a general lack of cohesion about the future of what diversity and inclusion c… Continue

Added by Amri Johnson on July 9, 2009 at 11:43am — No Comments

Health Disparities are Quality Disparities

The 2008 National Healthcare Quality Report and the National Healthcare Disparities Report from the Agency for Health Research and Quality were and are generally published each year at the same time. This is very much appropriate, but it is hard to know if people are making the connection between the two reports. If we have health and/or healthcare disparities, particularly in the sense that with most things equal (SES, acces… Continue

Added by Amri Johnson on July 9, 2009 at 11:38am — No Comments

SHORTAGE OF NURSES

Ready to Move to get JOB – Get in Touch with Us We believe at http://www.medcareprovider.com/nurse-transfer.htm that ---- Putting extra money in different projects ---- is not the ultimate solution to meet the immediate demand of NURSES or DOCTORS. We need to allow more work visa f… Continue

Added by Anand on June 1, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

Volunteer Health is the Answer

Volunteer health , words which means unpaid health…there is hospitality, care and concern with the people whom you don’t even know. Benevolent acts like this must be given honor, the helpers of health organizations are the people whom we should be proud of. What they are doing is really an expression of kindness. Through this kind of service, the volunteers are involved to different philanthropic health-related activities and services. The spiri… Continue

Added by Sandra Battle on May 28, 2009 at 10:52am — No Comments

Health Care New Media Marketing Conference

In case you haven't heard already, we're hosting the Health Care New Media Marketing Conference. The Health Care New Media Marketing Conference has been designed for health care professionals interested in learning the latest in New Media and web 2.0 techniques. Participants will have the opportunity to learn from industry thought leaders about cutting-edge methods to market your health care business. The complete agenda is attached at the bottom of this post. For more info, click on the link… Continue

Added by Jordan Sanders on May 22, 2009 at 2:05pm — No Comments