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Healing with Heart: Inspirations for Health Care
Professionals is based on the weekly emails, Thoughts from Mission,
that Martin Helldorfer, SVP, Mission, Exempla Healthcare, sends to Exempla
employees.
The following reflection is an email that was just sent to
Exempla employees. It is the "raw" material similar to the emails
used to form the basis of Healing
with Heart. Unlike Healing
with Heart reflections, this email is not edited for a
larger healthcare audience, but we hope you'll find it inspiring
nonetheless and that it will give you a flavor of the sentiments contained
in Healing with
Heart.
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Thought from Mission:
Mental Health
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Most would agree that we are intent to acknowledge those
who work behind the scenes to provide the best possible patient care.
Without their key contributions, our clinicians could not do what they do
at the bedside.
Perhaps those who work at the West Pines are less frequently
acknowledged. The reasons may be many. One is that its buildings seem off
the beaten path. It is not within a hospital where we intermingle with
others in cafeterias or travel the corridors and elevators between
departments. You have to get in the car and go to West Pines.
Maybe another reason is that its staff provides behavioral health
services. Researchers have long noted that there is a social stigma
attached to psychiatric care. We know that to be true. I recall the
consternation of a colleague who struggled to acknowledge that she needed
to leave work to go over to see her son who was being treated at West
Pines. If she were to visit him having an appendectomy, there would have
been no embarrassment. That is a shame.
West Pines provides a terrific service to our community and to our staff.
At a time when dollars are cut from mental health budgets, West Pines
remains invested in the need to provide services. Far from pulling back,
the staff creatively finds ways to provide needed care. Their newly
formed intensive two-week residential treatment program is an example.
This is a cost effective way to provide treatment for those struggling
with both an addiction and a mental health diagnosis. Given the silence
surrounding psychiatric care, most of us likely never heard about this
unique program.
Each of us is wholly body and wholly spirit; the two are inseparable. There are times, sometimes
extended times, when we are severely troubled in mind and body.
Fortunately, at those times we have West Pines, its staff, and its
services.
While there is often a stigma associated with psychiatric care, know that
we have people within Exempla who work behind the scenes to change the
bias. Who are they? Think of the seven employees who develop contracts
with insurers to cover the costs of residential psychiatric care. Most of
us have never met these employees. Remember of the Human Resource
professionals, also largely unseen, who have developed our benefit
programs. Keep in mind the creative clinicians and administrators who
shaped the varied programs at West Pines. All have contributed and each
helps to break down the stigma associated with those needing behavioral
health services. Thank you.
Far from deriding the care of mind and body, it was Socrates who advised
us;: "My
friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves,
we may learn how to care for ourselves." That is a
thought we all need to ponder. It is also what West Pines is all about.
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--- AJN judge that awarded Healing with Heart Book of the Year
in the Leadership and Management category.
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NEW: Healing with Heart Wisdom Cards
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If you love Healing
with Heart, you will love Healing with Heart Wisdom Cards.
Each deck consists of a set of 24 cards containing the affirmations in Healing with Heart.
Healing with Heart
Wisdom Cards are gift-quality and portable, perfect for
busy, on-the-go health care professionals.
Go to our website's online store
for information on how to order.
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NEW: Healing with Heart e-Affirmations
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Many are signing up to receive weekly
e-Affirmations. Each week, they receive an uplifting reminder that
may be a turning point in their day. This may be the spiritual stimulus
that will make the difference in one person's life. It's contagious -- as
one person touches another and another, and before long, a culture is
transformed.
Go to our website's online store
for details and to subscribe. It's a small investment sure to bring great
rewards.
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Coming Soon ... Healing with Heart Posters
Many of you are enjoying the affirmations from Healing with Heart in
the form of the portable, gift-quality Wisdom Cards and electronically as
an e-Affirmation weekly subscription. We've been receiving requests from
many who wish to post these affirmations around their hospital. In response
to these requests, we are in the process of creating 18" x 24"
posters containing a selection of the affirmations contained in the Wisdom
Cards. Check our website in a couple of weeks, or you may pre-order by
emailing us at: terri@mosscommunications.net.
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