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NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH DAY National Rural Health Day focuses on the medical resources rural communities offer and how it impacts small towns and their citizens. The third Thursday in November each year highlights the varied opportunities rural health offers and the benefits it brings to these modest hubs of economic vitality in the heartland. #RuralHealthDay Around the nation, over 60 million Americans live and work in rural communities. In these thriving centers of industry, health clinics and hospitals provide much-needed care to a varied population. Healthcare improves not only the life of the citizens but the livelihood, too. Increased economic opportunities are just one of the many reasons for maintaining healthcare close to small towns. Emergent care and urgent care increase the timely treatment of critical ailments and injuries. When nursing care is available, grandparents remain near their familiar settings. Primary care provides a remedy for chronic and routine conditions. Other facilities that may be available in some small communities include dental, chiropractic and vision care. HOW TO OBSERVE RURAL HEALTH DAY Get involved. Celebrate National Rural Health Day by letting a local healthcare professional know you appreciate their care. Learn more ways to celebrate at the National Organization of State Offices of Rural. Share your ideas and learn more by visiting the powerofrural.org website. Use #PowerOfRural and #RuralHealthDay to share on social media.

When women have access to critical health information, they can make healthier decisions for themselves and their families. This core belief propelled us to look for unique smart solutions to empower women and enable healthy children across India. Our interventions use the expansive reach of mobile phones (mobile health) to deliver critical preventive care information to pregnant women, mothers and families to enhance their health seeking behaviour. Discover how our mHealth interventions are driving a silent revolution and changing the lives of women in this blog by Amrita Mahale, Director, Product and Innovations, ARMMAN. https://lnkd.in/dYqBa4HB

Thank you, Tall Trees and our whānau mātau a-wheako for your many meaningful contributions to the Tupuānuku research, exploring system enablers and barriers to quality physical health care. Your feedback around diagnostic overshadowing was heard loud and clear! You can read about the Tupuānuku research findings, and see the video informed by the lived experience survey here: https://lnkd.in/gnHR9_QF #mentalhealthnz #diagnosticovershadowing #changingmindsnz #mentalhealth #wellbeing

Celebrating the heroes in white coats who dedicate their lives to our health and well-being. Thank you, doctors! 👩⚕️👨⚕️ #NationalDoctorsDay #HealthcareHeroes #ThankYouDoctors #july1 #digitalmarketingagency #bestdigitalmarketingagency #digitalmarketingagencyinmalappuram #digitalmarketingagencyinkerala #digitalmarketingagencyinindia #bestitcompany

Happy National Doctors' Day from Daitya Properties! Just as a good doctor provides a solid foundation for your well-being, we provide a solid foundation for your dreams with our properties! Thank you to all the dedicated doctors out there, and thank you to our customers for trusting us with their property needs. #NationalDoctorsDay #DaityaProperties #FoundationForDreams #HealthcareHeroes #PropertyExperts"

My 2 dollars( 2 cents are too small in the healthcare industry😊) on this video celebrating Service Week at a leading hospital. 🕺 Flash mobs, choreographed dances, live entertainments at the service points are common in many industries like the hospitality, QSR, retail and airports as a value addition to their services. 🎸 Every resort in the Maldives has a Bodu beru team, most hotels in the small Pacific islands have Tamure dancers among their team members to entertain the guests. Even a worse dancer like me had danced with guests 😃 at ROBINSON Club where entertaining the guests is a part of the culture to achieve guest delight. However, it looks absurd to see this in a hospital lobby and makes me think that its management has mistaken team building, stress busting activities as a #CustomerService initiative and have adopted it from other industries with an assumption - one size will fit all 😟 There's a big difference between the basics of customer service in the Hospital (healthcare) & Hospitality industry. 🏨 In Hospitality industry, most of the customers(guests)visit hotels looking for a memorable stay or dining experience and become loyal guests if everything goes well. They might sometimes be unhappy due to their expectations not meeting with the services delivered.Hotels work on providing service recovery to welcome those guests repeatedly. 🏥Whereas, hospitals are business houses where most of the customers(patients, caretakers) arrive with unhappy situations, with no plans unless they are visiting to deliver a baby or for a cosmetic treatment. Customer care there is to ensure a speedy recovery, caring treatment, value for money and of course not expecting them returning for the same reasons. 😩 Health care workers are one of the most stressed service providers as they are dealing with unhappy customers, working erratic shifts, handling emergencies involving life/death situations on a regular basis.They definitely require activities, work environment, initiatives that are designed to defuse their stress level to excel in the services they provide. These entertainments if organised at the staff areas will have good impact on the hospital workers' productivity, improved team spirit, wellness which will reflect on the quality of care when they deal with their customers, the resources( time⏳ and money 💹 ) spent for these initiatives can be utilised for upskilling the hospital workers to provide better care.But expecting these activities to spread positivity, joy and health to the customers is unimaginable and to some extend lacking empathy towards customers. The Band Wagon effect is so strong that the next time when we are waiting at a hospital with an excruciating pain or crying while swiping our cards, we'll require a huge level of emotional intelligence to remain calm 🤫 with these entertainers trying to provide us Customer Service. #CustomerCare #HealthCare #Hospitality #Hospitals #TeamBuilding #EmployeeEngagement

What is Kaleido Health? Learn about the name and brand of the new health centre, created by community, for community.

Today (10/2) is Don’t Wait Day at theSkimm! Our team was shocked to learn that nearly 50% percent of women have skipped or delayed a preventative care appointment in the last year. That was… until we reflected on our own inconsistency with regular health care visits and realized we can also be guilty of neglecting these vital appointments. We conceptualized the Don’t Wait campaign with two goals: First, to encourage and empower women to prioritize time to schedule the preventative health care appointments and screenings that can be lifesaving, yet so many of us skip. And second, to alleviate some of the decision fatigue involved in booking appointments by creating an easy-to-use tool that tells you which appointments you’re due for based on your age, and seamlessly directs you to book them right then and there. For theSkimm’s inaugural Don’t Wait Day, team members at Skimm HQ had dedicated time with no meetings or distractions to spend booking and preparing for vital health care appointments. We urge you to take some time today to use our simple tool to do the same. The relief of finally crossing it off your list is just what the doctor ordered. www.theskimm.com/dont-wait

Exploring the Policies That Are Closing Rural Hospitals https://ow.ly/53fG50RpsOu

Evidence based healthcare is so important. I feel lucky to be contributing to this with the work that I do, for better patient outcomes and for healthcare innovations