News & Updates

Why physician engagement is the key to better health care and how to improve it

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Patients can tell immediately whether their doctor is listening and if they truly care. For health care leaders and hospitals, focusing on engagement is a matter of quality and also profitability. Caring physicians are much more productive than those less involved.

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May Well-Being Tips

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Advice about Mental Health
How to Cope with Financial Anxiety
How to Cope with Financial Anxiety

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Expanding Care Beyond the Physician

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Care coordination improves communication between all providers involved with a patient’s care. The “team” typically includes physicians, Advanced Practice Clinicians (APCs), social workers, nurse case managers, and pharmacists.

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The science-based benefits of mindfulness

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Awareness of “mindfulness” and increasing acceptance are bolstered by a growing body of scientific evidence that is giving mindfulness new credibility and broader practical applications for wellness and adjunctive treatment.

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April Well-Being Tips

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Bouncing Back from Burnout
Surprise! Yoga is Not About Flexibility
How is Gardening like Mental Health?

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Mental Illness: The New Dimension in Primary Care

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The primary care physician is often the starting point for patients with mental health concerns. 20 percent of all visits include at least one mental health indicator: depression screening, counseling, a mental health diagnosis, psychotherapy, or provision of a psychotropic drug.

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March Well-Being Tips

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New Report on Burnout and Depression
The Stand-Sit-Stand Test
Make the Mental Shift to Spring

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The importance of telling a story

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In this time of EMRs and value-based health care, we are required to as accurately and as specifically as we can, record the severity of illness and medical conditions for which we are treating our patients. Here are four key guidelines tell the full story.

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February Well-Being Tips

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Organizing is Good for You
10 Minute Meditation
3 Exercises That Boost Heart Health

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Care Coordination: Enabling Population Health

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Care coordination enables information sharing among the providers involved with a patient’s care. Each member identifies the patient’s needs and preferences and communicate them at the right time to the right people, providing safe, appropriate, and effective care to the patient.

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