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The Wellness Network: Committed to Kids’ Health
The Wellness Network is proud to introduce new options for pediatric patient education—right when you need them. Our new Pediatric Acute Care solution has been carefully designed to make it easy to engage patients and their families with comprehensive education that addresses everything they need during their stay. Topics covered include videos defining ...
Honoring Mental Health Week: Promoting Awareness of Mental Health
This Mental Health Week, The Wellness Network joins the National Association of Mental Illness to help promote awareness of mental health and erase the stigma associated with mental health. Our mental health programming, which was refreshed and expanded in 2018, is designed to provide clinicians with tools you can use to address mental health ...
Tools to Increase Health Literacy
It’s a common complaint throughout medicine: there just isn’t enough time to really communicate with patients to understand their unique situations and create personalized treatment and wellness programs. But the problem isn’t confined to the provider side—as medical care has grown more complex, and Dr. Google has fueled an explosion in dubious health ...
Managing High Diabetes Costs
Written by Jon Vredenburg, MBA, RD, CDE, CSSD, LD/N One of the most frustrating parts of diabetes care is helping patients navigate through the financial impact of their disease. Over a 10-year period from 2007 to 2017, the total direct costs of diabetes increased from $116 billion to $237 billion nationwide. However, the ...
Common Vaccination Questions and How to Address Them
As a board certified general pediatrician working in an outpatient clinic, vaccine conversations are a routine part of my day. Vaccine hesitancy is common, and outright vaccine refusal rates are rising in my community. Parents are now routinely exposed to anti-vaccine propaganda, so providers who are administering vaccines in 2019 must be aware of the most common ...
Practicing Good Diabetes Self-Care
Making healthy lifestyle changes, eating well, and being active can affect your diabetes in a positive way. These behavior changes are the foundation of every diabetes treatment plan and can lead to better blood glucose control and better overall health.1 Learning how to slowly incorporate changes over a period of time is the best ...