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5 Things to Look for When You Find a Health Coach

Feb 20, 2019

Like an athletic coach who directs players in practice and rallies them from the sidelines, a health coach can be an indispensable aide for someone who wants to proactively improve or maintain his/her health. Whether living with disease, recovering from a surgery, trying to lose weight, or building stamina for more tennis, a health coach can help someone ensure they are in the best position to reach their goals. A good health coach will get to know the real you. Your health coach should be going above and beyond to know you.They will need a detailed family medical history, personal...

Health vs Wealth: What do we value?

Feb 1, 2019

I have always been intrigued when presenting to group of educated healthcare consumers how much they know about the state of their economic wealth and how little they know about the state of their health care. On occasion I have asked the question, “Do you know your credit score?” I usually receive almost 100% affirmative answers. The follow-up question, “What do you know about your health records?” usually gets a series of questioning looks. Most of us know very little about the contents of our health records or their accuracy. When I talk with sophisticated business men and women the...

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Powerful Positive Health

Dec 26, 2018

As 2018 comes to a close, we think about "taking stock" of the year that is ending. The real opportunity is to look forward to the upcoming year and its potential for us. On the internet I came upon an article from Harvard Medical School, which opened with the these three powerful phrases - Positive Mind, Positive Vibes, and Positive Life. Dr. Laura Kubzansky, a professor of social & behavioral sciences at Harvard, and her colleagues have analyzed data on emotional vitality and health outcomes from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study (NHANES). According to the article, "In 2007, her team reported...

Why add concierge healthcare to total rewards packages?

Dec 20, 2018

Velcro BenefitsIn a recently conversation with an executive in the benefits industry, the topic of "stickiness" was brought up. Benefits advisors and HR executives both need ways to makes clients or employees stick around - Benefits that act like velcro. Easy, adjustable, and appropriately sticky. Traditional health insurance and 401k's are not enough anymore. The average employee under the age of 35 considers 20 months the length of time to stay before looking for another job. We can't just assume this is a phase that young people will grow out of. This group includes executives and college graduates that have been in...

Caught in “too big to care”?

Nov 29, 2018

There have been two compelling articles in the “New York Times” over the past few weeks focused on healthcare. The first article dated Tuesday, October 30, 2018, is entitled “A Sense of Alarm as Rural Hospitals Keep Closing”1 and the second article dated November 14, 2018, entitled “When Hospitals Merge to Save Money, Patients Often Pay More”2. These two articles are really bookends of the same set of issues emerging in our healthcare delivery system. "Since 2010, nearly 90 rural hospitals have shut their doors. By one estimate, hundreds of other rural hospitals are at risk of doing so." 1 In many communities...

5 Things to Look for When You Find a Health Coach

Health vs Wealth: What do we value?

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Why add concierge healthcare to total rewards packages?

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