News & Updates

September Well-Being Tips

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What to Know About Suicide
Caring for Your Mental Health
Positivity is Powerful

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August Well-Being Tips

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Can Hobbies be Lifesavers?
Filling Your “Energy Accounts.”
Does Compassion Make You a Better Doctor?

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The Importance of Quality Improvement in Advancing Health Care and Controlling Costs

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Health care organizations are now combining quality assurance with continuous quality improvement, requiring a commitment to constantly improve operations, processes, and activities toward the ultimate goal of best patient care.

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July Well-Being Tips

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Half of All U.S. Adults Are Lonely
Getting to the Bottom of Burnout
Physician Chefs Make Life-Saving Cuisine

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Pediatrician Amy A. Jibilian, MD, Appointed Chief Wellness Officer

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Amy A. Jibilian, MD, will take the lead as Chief Wellness Officer for Valley Preferred and LVHN. The last several years have seen a concentrated focus on clinician well-being to try to mitigate burnout and help providers recapture the joy of practicing medicine.

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Fixing Physician Burnout Starts with Believing in the Abstract

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A core solution to health care burnout is to create an environment where caregivers are professionally fulfilled. This becomes a complex since health systems are increasingly under pressure to operate like businesses with financial and revenue goals.

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June Well-Being Tips

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Get Physical and Feel the Difference
What Do Doctors Really Eat?
Sound Sleep in Summer

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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
What You Eat Matters

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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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