During the weekend, the Greeley Tribune published a package of staff-written news articles and guest editorials that focused on health care in Greeley and Weld County. I was asked to write a guest editorial that looked at the future of Poudre Valley Health System’s involvement there. Simply put, the future is exciting and full of [...]
Archive for the ‘Health’ Category
PVHS’ Healthy Kids Club honored by First Lady Michelle Obama
Posted in Health, Wellness, tagged B.F. Kitchen Elementary School, HealthierUS Schools Challenge Program, Healthy Kids Club, Michelle Obama, USDA on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Poudre Valley Health System’s Healthy Kids Club received a great honor today for its role in promoting school nutrition and physical activity. First Lady Michelle Obama hosted Healthy Kids Club and Loveland’s B.F. Kitchen Elementary School at the White House in celebration of B.F. Kitchen winning the Gold Award of Distinction from the USDA’s HealthierUS Schools [...]
PVHS offers nutritional sack lunch menu ideas for school kids
Posted in Children's health, Health, Uncategorized, Wellness, tagged CanDo, healthy lunches for school children, nutritioinal sack lunches, Sack lunches on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re a parent with school-age children or, for that matter, if you like to make healthy sack lunches for yourself, I hope you take advantage of a new program Poudre Valley Health System launched August 22. The program helps parents make sure their children get the healthy nutrition they need in the sack lunches [...]
Hospital revenues slump nationwide, says Moody’s report
Posted in Aging population, Finance, Health, Healthcare reform, tagged healthcare cost, Lisa Goldstein, medicare cuts, Moodys Investors Service, the Wall Street Journal on August 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As congress selects the 12 legislators who will determine the cost-cutting efforts for the federal government, we learned that Moody’s, one of the more influential financial organizations in the world, listed the revenue decrease in the country’s hospitals as the “most important and immediate challenge” facing the industry. Of course, the main concern here is, if [...]
Flu vaccination for PVHS staff continues in 2011
Posted in employee turnover, Health, Healthcare reform, Hospital errors, Patient safety, Patient satisfaction, Quality improvement, Wellness, tagged American Hospital Association flu policy, flu, flu vaccination, influenza, mandatory flu vaccination on July 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
After long and hard consideration last year, PVHS made the decision to require mandatory flu vaccinations for PVHS employees. There was as much discussion on the topic as any that I have posted on my blog. Many sincere, well-meaning people disagreed with the decision, and I appreciate the candor and willingness of employees who disagree [...]
Health at Work
Posted in Corporate accountability, Employee engagement, employee turnover, Fitness, Health, Heart health, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Quality improvement on July 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I was at a meeting and learned what the staff members at our new Caribou office (home to the Poudre Valley Health System Center for Performance Excellence, the best Baldrige consultants in the country!) … were doing for lunch. Very cool. They have a garden growing outside of the office. At lunch or when [...]
New addition to Water Valley Medical Wellness
Posted in Fitness, Health, Healthcare reform, tagged 23 Trees, medical fitness, medical wellness, Water Valley on July 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Did you see that our medical and wellness spa, Twenty Three Trees, opened another location in Water Valley in Windsor? I was there a few days ago for the grand opening of the expansion that included Twenty Three Trees and, again, I was amazed at how well Rebecca Crocker and the staff had prepared the facility. What [...]
Accountable Care Organizations: A step backward
Posted in Finance, Health, Healthcare reform, Quality improvement, tagged Accountable Care Organizations, ACOs, heatlhcare reform on May 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In moving forward to implement healthcare reform, the federal government has passed significant policy changes to impact how the industry will work in the future. Central to this is the provision of “accountable care.” Whether or not you agree with the new legislation, it is hard to argue against the concept of “accountable care.” Generally, the term [...]
Heart month video: MCR volunteer and patient gives back, urges women to know the signs of heart disease
Posted in Health, Heart health, Patient satisfaction, tagged CDC, colorado, Dr. Michael Stanton, Heart attack, Heart disease, Heart month, Johnna Templeton, loveland, mcr, medical center of the rockies, Mitral valve on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the spirit of heart month, I wanted to share this story from Johnna Templeton, a volunteer at Medical Center of the Rockies who has also been a heart patient at MCR. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., killing men and women at similar rates, according to the CDC. In 2007, [...]
