Making the Connection between Recognizing Women-led Organizations and the HHP's Community Resource Work

 March 21st, 2022: March is Women’s History Month—sharing how the HHP’s work is connected to this national observation

Quote/Excerpt

I write the following, encouraged by a colleague to share my nonprofit community resource work that I created and continue to direct, as a volunteer, in honor of the focus on women-created or directed resources this month.

I created The Hospital Practice Handbook (HHP) for Acupuncturists and Their Hospital Sponsors 5+ years ago to fill the need for a community resource for hospital & healthcare system-based acupuncturists & their program managers.

The HHP is a community-centered professional networking resource that endeavors to help services from these professionals be more available to patients in federal and civilian systems. 

Inpatient acupuncture services are a non-drug way to improve sleep, decrease pain & anxiety, alleviate some side effects of conventional treatment, and reduce the complexity of med profiles. This is especially prominent at Children's hospitals. Research has shown that patient use of inpatient acupuncture services decreases the overall patient length of stay and decreases frequent readmission rates. (So it saves the healthcare system money while improving patient outcomes when you take a long-term view.)

Outpatient & ambulatory acupuncture services are a great addition to many healthcare teams, including behavioral health, functional rehabilitation, oncology, pediatrics, primary care, and even (wonderfully) mother-baby in perinatal and postpartum care.

At the HHP, we are a professional development community that shares & discusses best practices in program standards and employment practices. Both are key aspects to helping maintain, grow, and even initiate programs in these healthcare settings.

Source: This 3/21/2022 HHP newsletter.

You can support this work today with a tax-deductible donation here. Learn more about how to support this nonprofit work at our website. If you are curious to learn more about our work, besides looking around our website, I recommend perusing our past newsletters here.  The Hospital Handbook Project for Acupuncturists and Their Hospital Sponsors is a program of Free Range Health®, a 501(c)(3) public charity. All or part of your donation may be tax-deductible as a charitable contribution. Please consult with your tax advisor. Federal Tax ID # 45-4395933. #hospitalhandbookproject #hospitalacupuncture #womenchangemakers #nonprofitorganization #communityresource #professionaldevelopment #inpatientacupuncture #womeninleadership #womeninhealthcare #leadership #milspousechangemakers

Help us keep The Hospital Handbook Project going for 2022! Please help us raise funds by donating today, whether it is $5 or $25 or $100 or more. Thank you. 😊 Interested in the "cost savings" research mentioned in the quote above? Citations of "cost savings" research and feasibility studies are included in our published document available through the HHP website here.

Building the Hospital-practice Learning Opportunities Directory, "Find Your Trail Guides"

Help us build a new directory of hospital-based learning opportunities!

keywords: resource directory, wisdom-sharing, finding trail guides, a short survey

Get your hospital-based resource listed in a new 

Hospital-practice Handbook Project directory!

Find Your Trail Guides:  The Hospital-practice Learning Opportunities Directory

www.thehospitalhandbook.com

This was announced in the August 2018 HH Project newsletter.

Situation
I often receive inquiries about how to start in hospital practice

Background for Directory idea
In June, after I finished posting the last of the How to Get Your Foot in the Door of Hospital Practice blogpost series, I surveyed the hospital practice group and learned we do not yet have a published directory of practitioners and/or programs that offer direct ways of finding trail guides or maps (i.e. mentorships, internships, shadow opportunities, or courses/programs) for EAMPs/L.Acs. interested in hospital practice OR interested in a new area of hospital practice. 

Assessment
From all the feedback on the directory plus the feedback from publishing the blogpost series, it sounds like the directory will be a useful resource for you all and the larger hospital-practice EAMP/L.Ac. community.  The directory also ties in with future Hospital Handbook Projects, including the two interview series, Paths to Practice and Issues in Hospital Practice Webinar Series. 

Plan
In response, I create an online survey form to collect information.  Please share the survey link with colleagues or your hospital admin (hospital sponsor).  I know everyone is busy! 

Let's see if we can get a least 10 response by October 1st, 2018, so I can have a goal of getting it up as a pdf on the website soon after.

Review:  The What and Why of the Survey
We are gathering information via an online survey to create a pdf directory that can be accessed via the Hospital Handbook (HH) Project website, the Find Your Trail Guides:  A Hospital-practice Learning and Mentorship Opportunities Directory.

Please follow the survey link and share it with hospital-based colleagues and your hospital admin.

What opportunities qualify for the survey/directory?
Any hospital-based practice learning opportunity, to include, but not limited to:

The Learning Resource Survey for
the new Directory

• internships
• shadow opportunities
• mentorship opportunities
• preceptorships
• fellowships
• courses related to hospital-based practice

Goal:  have at least 10 completed survey forms before October 1st, 2018, so we can publish the first edition of the directory soon after.

Fill out the survey today!

Thank you.

www.thehospitalhandbook.com

Practicing Philanthropy: Positives for You and Your Community

keywords and ideas:  encouraging philanthropy, kindness leadership, practice philanthropy throughout your life, philanthropy and the "blue zones", philanthropy for your health

"Every act of kindness creates a positive change for others, no matter how small.  Plus, when kids take action to be a Changemaker, it helps them be happier, healthier and feel better about themselves.  Ready to transform kind thoughts into kind actions?  Cape optional." --Class Dojo

We've been following the school's summer kindess blogpost series these last couple months.  Here is the most recent installment: Habit #9: Kindness Leadership.
I started the Philanthropy Fridays theme for the Facebook Page a few months ago, and posted about this quote last week.

Goal
Encourage the practice of philanthropy throughout your lifetime and your family's lifetime.  It is good for the giver and the receiver.

Check in:  What and Where

• What have you done this month to engage your philanthropy "muscle"?
• Was it local, in your community?  Or was it national or international?
• What did you give?  Your time?  Your skill(s)?  Your income?

Why?
The practice of philanthropy is an important aspect of what makes the longevity "blue zones"successful.  😊

If you are looking for the best philanthropy fit for you, I recommend mixing it up between your local community and supporting something at a national or international level.  Every nonprofit needs people who can give their time or their skill as well as funders.  So, if you cannot do one, choose the other path.

Reference/Resource
You can find the whole series at the The Class Dojo Summer Kindness Series homepage

Interested in "Blue Zones"?
Dan Buettner's work with National Geographic and subsequent books, like The Blue Zones Solution.

More about Blue Zones work today at their website

More on the Health Effects of Philanthropy in the story of 
Roseto, Pennsylvania, where the community's health and longevity was not exclusively due to diet, exercise, or genetics, but to philanthropic community networks.  Dr. Wolf's research on Roseto was highlighted in Malcolm Gladwell's book, Outliers:

"What Wolf slowly realized was that the secret of Roseto wasn't diet or exercise or genes or the region where Roseto was situated.  It had to be the Roseto itself.  

[They cooked for each other, lived in multi-generational homes, have high respect for their elders, attend church together regularly, and, in a town of less than 2000 people] they counted twenty-two separate civic organizations..." 

"the Rosetans had created a powerful, protective social structure capable of insulating them from the pressures of the modern world.
The Rosetans were healthy ... because of the world they had created for themselves in their tiny little town in the hills."  --Outliers  [emphasis added]

Non-profits we are currently following:

• Disaster Relief, especially with the extensive Wildfire Zones in the American West:  Acupuncturists without Borders and local Medical Reserve Corps open volunteer positions for L.Ac.s
• Promoting hospital-practice stories with documentary episodes:  Acupuncture Now Foundation
• Demonstrating how to run a Community Integrative Health Practice with wellness programs for seniors as a 501c3:  Free Range Health

Want to learn more about the basic principles learned from studying the Blue Zones?
Watch this TED talk by Dan Buettner, start at about minute 15.40 for "common denominators":

Books mentioned above

You can find these books at your local library. If you follow the Amazon affiliate link below and buy within a few hours, a few pennies (at no extra cost to you) will go toward the Hospital Handbook Project.

added these book links 11.08.2019

• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the PeopleWho’ve Lived the Longest by Dan Buettner 
• The Blue Zones Kitchen: 100 Recipes to Live to 100
• The Blue Zones of Happiness: Lessons From the World’s Happiest People
• The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World’s Healthiest People

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