Tag Archives: Beyond

Beyond Care and Outcomes, Hospitals Must Deliver on Civics, Inclusivity, Equity, and Value – Lown Institute’s Best Hospitals

The core business of hospitals is patient care, often baked with teaching and research. But wait — there’s more, asserts the Lown Institute in their approach to ranking America’s Best Hospitals in 2020. The Institute’s methodology for assessing what’s “best” addresses ten pillars. Several of these are the “stick-to-the-knitting” components of the Webster Dictionary definition… Read More »

Beyond Prescriptions: How Organizations Are Tackling All Aspects of Opioid Abuse

Ed Kopetsky, CIO, Stanford Children’s Health/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital The timing couldn’t have been better. As leaders from the provider, vendor, and policy communities gathered in Washington, D.C. for the CHIME Advocacy Summit, a bill aimed at curbing opioid abuse was passed (quite overwhelmingly) by Senate. The legislation, which now goes to the White House,… Read More »

Everyday Racism in the Fitness World and Beyond

Earlier this year, LA Fitness called the police on two African American men because they didn’t believe the men had memberships, even though both of the men had checked in and one of the men had been a member of the gym for eight years. The police arrived and requested the men leave. Three LA… Read More »

Natural Medicine-Thinking Beyond The Prescription Bottle

When you get sick, you go to the doctor. And the doctor will, of course, prescribe medicines. You will go and buy medicines. You take them, and hopefully, you get well. This is how the health profession goes on nowadays, a cycle of diagnosis and prescription. If anyone were to give you herbs for medicine,… Read More »

I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams

Diarrhea Planet is a four guitar, bass and drums rock tornado from Nashville, TN that ‘have the greatest live show on Earth’ according to PITCHFORK. THE NEW YORK TIMES says ‘ “Nothing about the Nashville band Diarrhea Planet is commentary. The sheer energy that pulses through its second album, “I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams”… Read More »

Beyond Physical Pain

People who are suffering from chronic pain have to face and withstand not only the physical pain but also other torments that come with the disease. They have to put up with expenses for medication and treatment, physical limits, work issues, relationship issues and people who don’t understand what they’re going through. Some of them… Read More »

If You Can’t Relax, Look Beyond The Anti Anxiety Meds

People who are depressed and anxious and can’t relax are usually told to do some exercise. Exercise is a great way to treat depression but may not work so well with some anxiety disorders. The research done by the National Institute on Aging and the Penn State Social Research Institute shows that anxious people are… Read More »

The Wild Diet: Go Beyond Paleo to Burn Fat, Beat Cravings, and Drop 20 Pounds in 40 days – 53% discount

As seen on ABC’s My Diet Is Better Than Yours Abel James, creator of the wildly popular The Fat-Burning Man Show, brings us a Paleo-inspired 40-day weight-loss program that helps readers ditch the processed foods, return to basics, and drop up to 20 pounds in 40 days. Â Growing up on a farm in New… Read More »