2018

Employee Financial Well Being

Why Leaders Need To Look After Their Employees’ Financial Well-Being

Employee Financial Well Being Employers should adopt employee financial well being as part of their initiatives to improve workplace health. Stress from financials impacts a significant part of the workforce according to new research. Do you have anyone in your team who is out of sorts? Perhaps they look overly tired or seem withdrawn? Are […]

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friendship helps well-being

Friendship is important to well-being, especially during the holidays – The Washington Post

Friendship Helps Well-Being The Holidays can be stressful. While it may be obvious to some, researchers have found that friendship helps well-being especially during the Holidays. For many of us, especially those without family nearby, spending time with friends can be a meaningful way to celebrate the holidays. As fewer people opt for marriage, friendships

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2017 us life expectancy declined

U.S. life expectancy declines again, a dismal trend not seen since World War I – The Washington Post

2017 US Life Expectancy Declined 2017 us life expectancy declined despite spending more money on healthcare overall and per capita than any other nation. The US has plenty of knowledge and research that social determinants of health account for 80% or more of our health, yet we spend well over 90% of our healthcare dollars

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Protecting Holiday Mental Health

Protecting Holiday Mental Health: 7 Ways To Manage The Holidays

Protecting Holiday Mental Health In the 1965 cartoon A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charlie Brown laments the commercialism and stress of the Christmas season to budding psychologist, Lucy. She is able to relate with her own sentiments: “I know how you feel about all this Christmas business, getting depressed and all that. It happens to me

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Workplace Wellness Can Backfire

Workplace Wellness Can Backfire – MarketWatch

Workplace Wellness Can Backfire Too often workplace wellness programs are miniaturized clinical visits, with focus on symptomatic vital statistics like blood pressure and not the social determinants of health. The result is that workplace wellness can backfire and produce poor health results and an even more toxic work environment. Not every company wellness program works

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HHS Wants More Medicare Advantage Services

HHS Wants More Medicare Advantage Services Secretary Azar seems to be pushing for more prevention and better health as HHS wants more Medicare Advantage services. These services are not just more clinical visits or prescriptions or procedures. Secretary Azar wants to keep seniors out of the hospital not just to avoid costs but to “protect

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hospitals to pay for housing

CMS may allow hospitals to pay for housing through Medicaid – Modern Healthcare

Hospitals To Pay For Housing This may well mark a turning point in the current US sick care system where the Federal Government could pursue a more holistic approach to health and allow hospitals to pay for housing and proper nutrition. For many decades, dollars only went for medical care: hospital stays, physician visits, pharmaceuticals,

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Tim Perry CIO Tech Power Player

Tim Perry Named to comSpark Central Ohio Tech Power Players Class of 2018

Tim Perry, HealthCare Too Co-Founder & CIO, Selected As Tech Power Player Last night was the inaugural comSpark Central Ohio Tech Power Players induction for the Class of 2018. HealthCare Too‘s Chief Information Officer was among those honored at the sold-out event. Tim Perry has worked in the IT industry for three decades but never

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