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Hurricane Katrina was responsible for the most recent increase in interest in Telehealth, but it took the COVID-19 global pandemic to demonstrate the potential for long term change by reimagining [...]

The novel coronavirus pushed the world off a figurative cliff earlier this year.  Providentially one of the unintended benefits has been the rise of telemedicine (AKA Telehealth). Healthcare [...]

Time to Embrace Your Natural? COVID-19, Quarantine, Safer At Home, Stay At Home, Social Distancing in addition to being new words in our daily vocabulary, have also had the unintended consequence [...]

Changes as You Age Who gets COVID-19 and why? Why does a 104-year-old man survive his infection, a 25-year-old female athlete training for a 10K become infected and a 52-year-old man dies from [...]

IN CELEBRATION OF NURSES Who can believe that the World Health Organization (WHO) was being prescient when it proclaimed 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse/Midwife in honor of Florence [...]

A Colorful & Patriotic Celebration of American Nursing We all know about Flo; the English nurse considered the founder of modern nursing. In fact, National Nurses Week ends May 12, the [...]

As America and indeed the world closes its doors and shutters the windows in response to the coronavirus, it is perhaps time to raise awareness to issues beyond the physical. Healthcare [...]

The world finds itself in a pandemic creating confusion, fear, panic, hype, misinformation, questions, and everything in between. A new phrase has entered our common lexicon; ‘Social Distancing’ [...]

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR YOUR EYES LATELY? Whatever New Year’s resolutions were made this year, chances are they have been allowed to slide off the radar by now. The year 2020 serves as a perfect [...]

Putting the “Hilton” into “Hospitals” or Lessons from Mickey Mouse Hospitals and Hotels; 2 buildings with rooms and beds. Both words as well as ‘hostel and hospice’ originate from the same root [...]