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Amsterdam UMC Renovates Patient Tower In Amsterdam
Amsterdam UMC is renovating the patient room towers at its medical center campus in Amsterdam. The 247,569-square-foot phased project includes the modernization of 18 departments, including a new neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with couplet care rooms. The project team includes EGM Architects (architect; Dordrecht, Netherlands), Wiegerinck Architects (architect; Arnhem, Netherlands), and Heijmans (construction; Rosmalen, Netherlands). The renovation is scheduled for completion in 2025. healthcare
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Can an Algorithm Help You Achieve Your Wellness Goals? We Put One to the Test
Achieving your wellness goals — whether it’s hoping to feel less stressed or go for a morning walk — comes with its set of challenges (trust me, I’ve been there). Especially now, when it feels like it gets dark at 4:30pm, I personally find myself being more tired and less motivated than usual to do simple things such as cook or get some fresh air. This, in turn, puts me three steps back from my wellness goals, which can make shek
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Come out of the Closet With Cass Model of Sexual Orientation| Find Your True Self
Coming out is a very difficult process but it indeed is at the heart of identifying and accepting your sexual orientation. It is a process of understanding, valuing, and accepting your sexual identity/orientation. Many people wish to enjoy this feeling of liberating and freeing themself, but understanding where to start from, is the challenge here. But you know there is one factor that can help you here and make your journey of coming out smooth and understandable. This factor is- calmsage
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12 Effective & Mindful Ways To Navigate Difficult Family Relationships
It is normal to disagree and fight with your family members. I mean if you don’t argue with your family members are you even family? Well, jokes aside, family, on one hand, can complete you while on the other hand can make you feel equally lonely. Difficult, abusive, or toxic family relationships can be challenging to navigate and if you find your relationship with your family members or a particular member extremely difficult, you need to take a step back calmsage
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Are you living in an apology cycle?
The word ‘sorry’ can lose all meaning when it becomes a habit, or when it’s used to clean the slate without dealing with the underlying issues. So, it’s time we reviewed our relationship with apologies – you won’t be sorry Many of us use the word ‘sorry’ frequently throughout the day. Even when we’re innocent, when someone else has bumped into us or made a mistake, we may find that we’re the one apologising. It can become an automatic response, happi
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Tap into the power of purpose
Vanessa Dietzel, author of The Performance Curve, explains the effect purpose can have on our wellbeing, and how we can harness this power for our own good From a really young age, my twin brother had a clear sense of his purpose in crafting unique experiences through technology such as lasers. Pursuing this purpose brought him such joy and satisfaction. By contrast, it’s taken me years to find my own sense of purpose. In my early twenties, I was excited happi
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What Happened With Head Lice Cases During The Pandemic?
With winter fast-approaching and many kids back to attending school in-person, one small companion is returning to business-as-usual: head lice. These small ectoparasites, which are transmitted through direct hair contact, have not disappeared during the COVID-19 pandemic but have instead continued to spread between people, as they have throughout human history. Pediculus humanus capitis, commonly known as head lice, is one of two types of louse that have evolved with humans as their sole host since people first emigrated out shek
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7-Minute Core Exercises for a Quick Targeted Workout
Seven-minute workouts are a thing of beauty because they’re designed to meet your needs. Seven-minute workouts know you’re busy. They realize that between work, parenting, and everyday life, you’ve hardly got a moment to spare — and when you do come across some much-needed free time, the last thing you want to do is spend an hour sweating. But seven-minute workouts also understand that you want to stay active. You care about building strength and having energy — you just shek
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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