Christina's Considerations

Intermountain Healthcare and Health and Wellness for Kids

Intermountain Healthcare has a webpage for kids that is pretty cool. You can watch some short videos, print posters that tie to the videos, and play games all focused on educating kids on health and wellness. Share it with the... Read more →

Cost savings? Green? The right thing to do!

The May/June 09 issue of Healthcare Executive is all about healthcare greening beyond recycling bins. However, I noticed that a few of my favorite opportunities were missed, or perhaps are not realized by the writers. So, I'm adding my thoughts... Read more →

Use of social media in a disaster for communication

During some research last week, I came across an example of one of my suspected uses for the new social networking communication tools and want to share the link to Innovis Health's YouTube Video. This small hospital and clinic system... Read more →

Health Improvement Technology and Efforts

Health Management Technology had a great article on Health Improvement Technology and I want to share a few of the highlights below. I also want to call my readers attention to developments related to regional healthcare improvement efforts around the... Read more →

Unhygienic Pool Behavior: Peeing in the Pool

Sometimes my family and friends are grossed out by my work in healthcare and this post won't let them down. Things like people peeing in the pool are important and I'll address the reasons and present six tips for healthy... Read more →

Culture of Safety in Hospitals

Press Ganey (PG) is known for their stakeholder (customer, emplyee, medical staff) satisfaction survey services. Now, PSQH reports on their recently released Safety Culture Pulse Report which assesses the correlation between medical errors and the culture impacts within the heatlhcare... Read more →

Effective Apologies

I don't mean to beat a dead horse with a follow-up to my post on grace in the workplace. However, an article in Chief Executive magazine is worth sharing, because Want Better Performance? Say you're sorry! presents an apology as... Read more →

Pandemic Influenza Planning for Hospitals

The 2009 Statewide Medical and Health Functional Exercise Guidebook is now available for the drill on Thursday, June 18. The drill scenario will be based on a pandemic influenza outbreak in Southeast Asia that progresses to laboratory confirmed cases in... Read more →

Evacuation

Once again we have fire in Santa Barbara in the mountains above our community. I can see the fire from my office and will keep a close eye on it today. We are just outside of the evacuation warning area... Read more →