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Ashoka: Innovators for the Public

heide — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:48:29 +0000

Ashoka envisions an Everyone A Changemaker™ world: a world that responds quickly and effectively to social challenges, and where each individual has the freedom, confidence and societal support to address any social problem and drive change

C-Change: Collaborating to Conquer Cancer

heide — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:02:10 +0000

Founded in 1998, C-Change is the only organization that assembles key cancer leaders from the three sectors — private, public, and not-for-profit — and from across the cancer continuum — prevention, early detection, treatment and quality of life. Its mission is to eliminate cancer as a major public health problem at the earliest possible time by leveraging the expertise and resources of our unique multi-sector membership.

A Man Named Spider Tries to Make One Slice of Cleveland a Little Better: Mark Naymik

heide — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:59:13 +0000

A Man Named Spider Tries to Make One Slice of Cleveland a Little Better: Mark Naymik For the last five years -- 12 hours a day, seven days a week -- Spider has sat in a folding chair out front … Continue reading →

Brandeis University features Relational Coordination Research Collaborative

heide — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:36:14 +0000

RELATIONAL COORDINATION is communicating and relating for the purpose of task integration. It is particularly useful for improving quality and efficiency performance under conditions of task interdependence, uncertainty and time constraints. At Brandeis University, the mission of the Relational Coordination Research Collaborative is to transform relationships for high performance by building shared goals, shared knowledge and mutual respect across boundaries. RCRC connects practitioners and academics in an innovative, collaborative setting to develop and test new models of change. It helps organizations improve the relational dynamics underlying their work processes and redesign their structures to support and sustain new dynamics.

Oregon Health Care Picks up where Obama Left Off

heide — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:33:28 +0000

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber has signed a law that will create new regional entities, called coordinated care organizations. Kitzhaber says the plan will improve care, reduce costs and serve as a model for the rest of the nation.

Urban Tourists Find Inspiration

heide — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:26:08 +0000

People, get ready: The "Good News Tour" is about to depart...Thus starts this article by The Plain Dealer columnist Margaret Bernstein on a tour that takes people from Cleveland's suburbs to the thriving businesses and urban gardens in some of the city's most impoverished neighborhoods.

Overdiagnosis as a Flaw of Health Care

heide — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:40:05 +0000

Many health promotion activities like screening tests don’t actually promote health, but instead promote disease. This New York Times article, Overdiagnosis as a Flaw of Health Care, states that health practitioners bring healthy patients in for disease screening and prevention reasons they are actually boundary spanning in ways that may have more to do with finding and treating disease than they do with enabling and promoting health.

Active & Healthy Aging: An Intergenerational Perspective

heide — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:51:42 +0000

Elza Maria de Souza, PhD, professor of Public Health & Health Promotion, University of Brasilia, Brazil Monday, Feb. 20 Noon to 1:30 p.m. Wolstein Research Building, Room 1203 Lunch Provided Presented by: The CWRU Masters of Public Health Program PHAB: … Continue reading →

Boundary Spanning: Lessons from Within a Changing Health Care System

heide — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:46:34 +0000

Monday, Feb. 6
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Drinks & Nibbles afterwards
BioEnterprise Building, 11000 Cedar Ave., Cleveland, OH
Downstairs conference room
Free Parking
All Welcome

Laura Nasir, BSN, MSN, RN, FNP, PhD-S, has spent the past three years as an embedded researcher in the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, collecting case studies across primary and secondary health care, focusing on the Ealing community in London. She will share insights on effective multidisciplinary collaboration in primary care organizations, examining the best ways to build bridges between primary care and behavioral health, chronic care, social care, child and family services, and acute/hospital care. Professor Nasir brings a perspective on health and health care from both sides of the ocean. She is a clinical assistant professor at the School of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is a visiting lecturer at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kings College, London.

Healthy People 2020

heide — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:48:01 +0000

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.