Healthcare
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Delnor Hospital Offers HeartMath Workshop in Geneva, IL on May 15, 2008
Denor Hospital in Geneva, IL is offering a six-hour HeartMath workshop on Thursday, May 15 from 9:00 - 6:00. This is a great opportunity to attend a live HeartMath event taught be trainers with years of experience using HeartMath personally and in a healthcare setting.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
U.S. Health Care Spending to Double by 2017, Report Predicts
Spending on health care in the United States could double by 2017, reaching $4.3 trillion and accounting for 19.5 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product, a new government report shows.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
A Hospital that Truly Cares
When so much of the news we hear about the US health care system is what’s breaking or broken, it’s inspiring to hear the story of a hospital that is transforming stress and transforming lives. Delnor-Community Hospital in Geneva, Illinois recently received two awards from HeartMath®, an innovative research, technology and training organization which is helping hospitals across the US create healthy environments for both staff and patients.
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Sunday, October 07, 2007
Chronic illness costs the economy more than $1 trillion a year
Americans who have common chronic health conditions cost the U.S. economy more than $1 trillion a year, a figure that could jump to nearly $6 trillion by 2050 unless people take steps to improve their health. The economic impact of chronic illness goes far beyond the expense of treating disease. It takes an even greater toll on economic productivity in the form of extra sick days, reduced performance by ill workers and other losses not directly related to medical care.
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Study Indicates Physicians Experience Stress Following Medical Errors
Many physicians experience significant emotional distress and job-related stress following near misses and medical errors, according to a new study published in the August 2007 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. The findings point out the need to improve organizational resources for all health care professionals to receive the support they need following an error.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
The Changing Science of Pain
Millions of aging boomers and the latest generation of wounded soldiers hope the secrets of our most enduring medical foe can finally be unlocked.
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
More than Six Out of 10 Baby Boomers Will Be Managing Multiple Chronic Illnesses by 2030
The over-65 population will nearly triple between 1980 and 2030 as a result of the aging Baby Boomers, adding new demands and challenges on an already stressed-out health system, according to a new report released today by First Consulting Group of Long Beach, Calif. With new projections on Boomer health into 2030, the report details how this powerful population will impact health care for decades to come.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
HeartMath’s emWave Personal Stress Reliever
Our emWave Personal Stress Reliever is on sale until the end of the April for $20.00 off. If you’re interested in realtime stress reduction and peak performance, please take a look at the two-minute demo.
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Heart And Soul
Mimi Guarneri’s The Heart Speaks reads like a fast-paced novel, not a medical tract. That is its beauty and its gut-wrenching usefulness. Guarneri graduated No. 1 in her medical school class and became a cardiologist driven to help her patients, not to make big bucks. It was a life of stress, as she describes it, “that harried version of myself. The hunted creature I used to glimpse in hospital windows, trying to outpace the fate of her own complex heart.”
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Positive psychology is getting a tryout at McLean Hospital
In a first for a major psychiatric institution, Harvard’s McLean Hospital plans to invite greater happiness into its halls, embracing the teachings of a new movement in psychology that emphasizes the positive rather then the pathological. McLean is putting together a proposal to create an institute that will aim to teach healthcare providers and patients some of the more practical tenets of positive psychology, a mix of science and self-help that has been growing explosively in academia and building buzz in the media.
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007
What’s Making Us Sick Is an Epidemic of Diagnoses
For most Americans, the biggest health threat is not avian flu, West Nile or mad cow disease. It’s our health-care system. You might think this is because doctors make mistakes (we do make mistakes). But you can’t be a victim of medical error if you are not in the system. The larger threat posed by American medicine is that more and more of us are being drawn into the system not because of an epidemic of disease, but because of an epidemic of diagnoses.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Teaching Hospitals How to Listen
One Woman Struggled to Convince Administrators That Staff Responsiveness—or Lack of It—Affects Patient Outcome
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Why Does It Still Hurt, Doc?
They regularly visit doctors’ offices complaining of baffling combinations of symptoms for which no medical cause can be found: chest pain one month, gynecologic problems the next, followed by headaches or crushing fatigue. Reassurance that their tests don’t show anything amiss has the opposite effect, convincing these patients that physicians haven’t looked hard enough—or don’t believe them. While everyone at some point experiences symptoms for which no cause is found, patients who have what is known as somatization disorder suffer from a host of disabling problems. Most are women who develop the lifelong disorder during adolescence.
Monday, August 28, 2006
The Healing Mind - How you think can dramatically alter the way your body fights disease
Western medicine separated the mind from the body in the Middle Ages when the famous French philosopher and mathematicianRene Descartes agreed to accept flesh and bone as the province of physicians, while the Catholic Church claimed possession of the mind, insisting it was the creation of the soul.
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Monday, July 03, 2006
Our natural instinct to heal
No more Freud. No more Prozac. French psychiatrist David Servan-Schreiber shows how the body can heal stress, anxiety and depression.
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