ShareIt only took one week to prove a point that I regularly tell people: Henry Ford Hospital is so more than just a hospital, a place to care for patients. We’re a destination in Detroit for education, culture and some truly unbelievable events for our employees, patients and the community. (And it all happens while [...]
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Share“You can learn a lot about a person from his dreams. What we dream is a reflection of who we are. It is the measure of our aspirations and goals, and of those values we hold dear and place above all else.” – Zadok Rabinowitz The New Year offers each of us a point in [...]
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ShareWhen I last met up with Frank Venegas, we were at the Detroit Institute of Arts talking about Frida Kahlo and her ties to Frank’s family, as well as Henry Ford Hospital. Henry Ford Hospital also has something else in common with Frank and his company, Ideal Group: a focus on innovation in Detroit. One [...]
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ShareLast November, I wrote a Thanksgiving-themed post about the positive impact a grateful and positive attitude can have on one’s emotional and physical health. So in the spirit of good health, I want to try something a bit different this year on Doc in the D. I would like my 2011 Thanksgiving blog post to [...]
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ShareWhile I was waiting to get an MRI of my hip, I thought: “I should be tweeting this.” But a blog is the limit of this man’s social networking skills. From Facebook to Twitter, it seems half of the world wants to tell the other half of the world every mundane activity that they are [...]
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ShareI had the pleasure of participating along with 300 other cyclists in the second annual Tour de Ford bike ride. Cyclists of all experience levels had the opportunity to tour our city while benefiting the Tom Groth Patient Medical Needs Fund, which provides health care, medication, equipment medical supplies and social services to underinsured patients [...]
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ShareAs you may have read this week in a Detroit News article, my leadership team and I have recently incorporated care rounding with patients at Henry Ford Hospital into our weekly activities. You might ask, “What’s new about a physician and an administrative team rounding on patients in a hospital?” My response? “Quite a bit.” [...]
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ShareAs we move to a new vision statement for Henry Ford, the essential value remains from our prior vision statement: Providing each patient the quality of care and comfort we want for our families and ourselves. This letter from Karen Davis – one of our hospital’s administrative nurse managers whose daughter was recently a patient [...]
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ShareHealth care marketing and promotion has become an important component of getting the message out about providers and organizations. Resources, both financial and human, have been added by all institutions to meet the increasing emphasis on providing a media face for these purposes. Many of the best talents in writing and public relations have been [...]
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