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novembre 9, 2021Like
Every Child’s Hope Breaks Ground On Short-term Residential Treatment Facility
Every Child’s Hope (ECH), a St. Louis-based child services organization, held a groundbreaking ceremony for its short-term residential treatment facility on its St. Louis campus. The 18,000-square-foot William N. Dill Youth Development Center will include 30 private patient rooms, family visiting rooms, and a secure outdoor courtyard. The project team comprises Kai Design (architect; St. Louis) and Kai Build (general contractor; St. Louis). Completion is expected in 2022. healthcare
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A New, Lower Threshold for Lead Poisoning in Children Means More Kids Will Get Tested – but the Ultimate Solution Is Eliminating Lead Sources
Gabriel Filippelli, IUPUI The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its blood lead reference value – the level at which children ages 1-5 are considered to have high exposure to lead. Since 2012, this threshold had been set at 5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood; children at or above this level represented the top 2.5% with the highest blood lead levels in the nation. Now, in response to recent federal health surveys, the CDC has Healthy
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2021 HCD Expo: Designing Effective Clinical Respite Spaces
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented emotional and physical stress on healthcare staff, bringing the need for restorative staff break areas in healthcare facilities to the forefront, according to speakers at the 2021 HCD Expo in Cleveland, during the session “Caring for the Caregiver: The Role of Culture and the Built Environment on Nurse Respite.” Kicking off the discussion, presenters Carolyn Blake, technical practice leader/partner at Gresham Smith (Jacksonville, Fla.); Lesa Lorusso, PhD, healthcare director of research and insights at healthcare
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Newborn Screening Saves Lives: What Parents Need to Know
Elisa Seeger’s son Aidan was 6 1/2 years old when he started having vision problems. Seeger thought her son just needed glasses, but after what she calls a « diagnostic odyssey, » going from one specialist to another, she learned that he had a rare genetic neurological disorder called adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). The once active first grader, who loved sports and was a good student, soon lost his ability to function. A year later, in 2012, he died. « During this time I was Healthy
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Take 5 With Kyle Basilius
In this series, Healthcare Design asks leading healthcare design professionals, firms, and owners to tell us what’s got their attention and share some ideas on the subject. Kyle Basilius is a senior associate and healthcare planner at Parkin Architects (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada). Here, he shares his thoughts on a net-zero future, new project delivery models, and healthcare’s role in Aboriginal reconciliation. Sustainable building certifications Following a record-shattering heat wave and raging wildfires in British Columbia this year, the province healthcare
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Good Company
Through our annual Touchstone Awards, The Center for Health Design recognizes the exemplary use of an evidence-based design (EBD) process in an array of built environments. This program focuses on achievements in three areas of the EBD process: collaboration, evaluation, and sharing. The submissions go through a rigorous judging process, with each application reviewed by a team of distinguished jurors including design practitioners, researchers, academics, healthcare administrators, and patient advocates. This year’s Touchstone Awards, presented across Silver, Gold, and Platinum healthcare
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New Study Looked At How Infant Play At Home Affects Learning
A new study published in the Journal of Child Development looked at infant exuberant object play at home. “Researchers have long considered play to be a primary context of infant learning,” study author Catherine Tamis-LeMonda told us. “However, studies of play are confined to laboratory tasks. Our study is about how infants interact with objects spontaneously at home. We wanted to know how much infants interacted with objects outside from the laboratory confines, with the objects that they typically have theravive
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Jack Williamson: “Who we keep company with can impact how we feel”
CEO and Founder of Music and You Jack Williamson has released his debut book, brilliantly titled The Shitty Committee, and he’s joining Happiful’s podcast to share more Jack Williamson has over 20 years of experience working in the music industry and over the past five, he’s trained to become a therapist and coach so that he can support others with their mental health. Jack is the CEO and Founder of Music and You, the brilliant organisation that delivered LiveLive, to happi
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75% of Brits worry about climate change
New statistics reveal concern for the future of our planet, but what can we do to manage anxiety and feel empowered? As the COP26 UN Climate Conference in Glasgow continues this week, statistics from the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS’) Opinions and Lifestyle Survey show three-quarters of adults in Britain are worried about the impact of climate change. Not only this, but 43% reported feeling anxious about the future of the environment more widely in the past month. There could happi
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Hygge: The Danish Art Of Staying Happy
The United Nations, annually, publishes a report on the World Happiness Index. On top of the charts, for the third consecutive year, are Finland, Denmark, and Switzerland respectively followed by Iceland and Norway in the fourth and fifth position. The data for this report is collected based on the country’s and its citizen’s happiness levels, their GDP, social support, personal freedom, and the corruption level. For years, these countries have been on the top of the World Happiness Index, have calmsage
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Music, mental health, and the mystic: Danny’s story
Creative expression became a healthy outlet for Danny to channel his Tourette’s syndrome, and through his experience he’s recognised that mental health can hold a mirror up to show our true selves, as well as the world around us I am a singer songwriter with Tourette’s syndrome. My mother is a healer, my father an antiques dealer – so I have healing hands, and history in my genes. The story of my family’s awareness of mental health issues began when happi
novembre 8, 2021Like
Scott Foley Lost His Mother to Ovarian Cancer & Wants More Women to Know Their Options
Scott Foley was just 11 years old when his parents came home from a doctor’s appointment with news that his mother had received an ovarian cancer diagnosis. In the years that followed, he stepped into a caregiving role as she went through treatments before she died four years later. That experience, decades later, inspired him to step into yet another role — as an advocate — joining up with Not on My Watch, a campaign to educate and advocate for proactive shek