Category: Healthcare

It’s Sunday night. As I begin this week, I was thinking how some beginnings are chosen and some are forced upon us. When it comes to health, more often than not, you are forced to make health changes in response to a diagnosed condition. However, I want to plant a seed. I encourage you to…

How appropriate after resurrection Day!! Distractions are over. I was thinking about the word -Masks. Prior to 2020 that word would not generate the responses that our present Covid environment evokes. Opinions are strong – you believe in the role of the mask in disease prevention or you don’t. It makes me look at health…

As this month begins, I find myself beginning a new journey as well. I’m sitting in a great space that is a new Health and Wellness Clinic. I had the privilege of speaking to some health coaches on the topic of health literacy. I am thrilled that my new leader just asked me if I…

September, spiritually, refers to completeness or fulfillment. It can also refer to new adventures. I want to share a resource journal that I published on Amazon. I wanted to make something useful and functional for patients/caregivers to use immediately. The journal provides useful health literacy education along with templates to journal medical visits, and medication…

My brother was a juvenile diabetic. He took insulin shots twice a day if I remember correctly . He got sick with the flu or virus, something that made my grandparents take him to the doctor. The doctor told them to not take any of his medicine until he could keep food down. He passed…

“When the mind is allowed to rest, inspiration will follow” Phil Jackson So it is that I had to take a rest from all things, including this blog. But I have returned with a renewed energy to collaborate and engage with the community. The Institute for Healthcare Advancement, and it’s Health Literacy Solutions Center is…

In preparing a presentation, I’ve been reading about the changes in medication labels. The impact in numbers seems difficult to obtain. Some studies mention 100,000 deaths per year, another reports over 1 million physician visits and emergency room visits are due to incorrect use of medication. The errors are due to misunderstanding labels. I just…

I have first hand knowledge that healthcare is a business. I get it! But it has also been a calling for many providers. The difficulty for those providers lies within the systems that place demands on time, productivity and reimbursement. Those demands eat away valuable face time with patients. Time that could be spent educating,…

Definition: the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Health illiteracy is a hindrance and a restraint, in that, the lack of knowledge limits one’s ability to act appropriately. When receiving healthcare information, it is vital to have freedom to ask questions and knowledge to know what…

The study of how strategies uptake evidenced based practice into regular use…. Basically, how are we implementing the evidence we have? That’s precisely why HealthSpeak is bringing the evidence directly to the community. Successful implementation follows strategic planning, purposeful initiatives and clear paths to identified outcomes. In regards to health literacy, evidenced-based practice is documented…