HERO June Briefs
A Message from HERO’s President Health Is… “Health is not just the sense of completeness in ourselves but also is the sense of belonging to others and to our place; it is an unconscious awareness of community, of having in common.” ~ Wendell Berry On May 25, 2020, George Floyd lost …
Member Spotlight: Patty Purpur de Vries, MS; Director of Strategy, Outreach and Innovation for Stanford’s BeWell Program
Patty Purpur de Vries, MSDirector of Strategy, Outreach and Innovation for Stanford’s BeWell Program and an Ambassador for Stanford’s WellMD Center Born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Patty graduated from Stanford University in 1989 after receiving a full-athletic scholarship. She was a 9-time NCAA All-American in the Shot …
The ABCs of Change
Courtesy of The Avarna Group, www.theavarnagroup.com, 5/25/2019 June 19th, 2020 “Health is not just the sense of completeness in ourselves but also is the sense of belonging to others and to our place; it is an unconscious awareness of community, of having in common.” ~ Wendell Berry On May 25th, 2020, …
2020 Fall Think Tank Meeting
Hypertension management in the workplace: Evidence from a RCT clinical trial in China (JAMA, March 2020)
For a long time, few clinical trials were completed addressing the effects of workplace-based wellness intervention programs on the management of high blood pressure (BP). From January 2013 to December 2014, a cluster randomized clinical trial of a hypertension management program was conducted in 60 workplaces across 20 urban regions …
HERO May Briefs
Bright Spots Responses to the global pandemic are varied. Individually, we may cycle through anxiety, hope, exhaustion, joy, repeat. And we see it in the faces of the healthcare workers-each one a hero–some of whom volunteer to leave their families to travel to work in areas of high demand. With …
Member Spotlight: Lauren (Schulte) Remspecher, MPH, CHES Senior Director, Member Engagement & Communications – St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition
Lauren (Schulte) Remspecher, MPH, CHES; Senior Director, Member Engagement & Communications – St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition Lauren (Schulte) Remspecher is senior director, member engagement and communications for the St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition (BHC), a non-profit collaborative supporting over 70 leading employers in their efforts to improve …
Shared Value in Community Partnerships: Measures that matter to results-oriented stakeholders
Somava Saha, MD, Director, Executive Lead, Well-being and Equity (WE) in the World and Well Being In the Nation (WIN) Network Somava Saha, MD, serves as founder and executive lead of Well-being and Equity in the World (WE in the World), as well as executive lead of the Well Being …
The COVID-19 Teachable Moment for Public-Private Partnerships
Matt Stiefel, Senior Director, Kaiser Permanente Matt directs the Center for Population Health in Kaiser Permanente’s Care Management Institute (CMI). He is a fellow and faculty member with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, currently leading measurement for 100 Million Healthier Lives. Prior to KP, he served on the Carter Administration …
Being Safe Versus Safer When We Go Back to Work
Normalizing masks and hard-earned lessons from the AIDS pandemic. Though CDC guidelines recommend wearing cloth masks to reduce the spread of COVID-19, you can expect public adherence to vary as much as expert opinions and role modeling from political leaders varies. We need to be concerned about the latter because …