My Purpose Our Mission Health Care Week May 12 to 18, 2024
2024 Health Care Week – My Purpose – Our Mission

As we bring Health Care Week to a close, we invite you to pause for a special reflection celebrating the unique gifts each of our team members brings to our health ministry.

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Mindful Moment: Giving Thanks

It’s Thankful Thursday! Be sure to send a special Health Care Week note of gratitude in Workday and/or take a moment to relax with a mindful coloring session.

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Mindful Moment: Being Present in Nature

The environment is more than ours to preserve – it is a gift from God for us to enjoy. Learn about walking meditation and share your favorite nature photos with us.

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Mindful Moment: Connect with your Heart, Change your Life

Changing our heart rhythm patterns can change how we feel and perform. Join us for a voluntary virtual event to learn about HeartMath® and how to bring our physical, mental, and emotional systems into alignment.

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2024 Health Care Week: Blessing of the Hands reflection

As we open our week-long celebration of Health Care Week (May 12-18), take a few minutes to pause and reflect on the work of your hands and your invaluable contributions to delivering SSM Health’s Mission.

My Purpose Our Mission Health Care Week May 12th to the 18th 2024
Sneak Peek: Health Care Week 2024

Health Care Week (May 12-18) is an opportunity to celebrate and recognize the important role all team members play in carrying out our Mission. Mark your calendars and join us for these special activities.

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Celebrating Earth Day and Arbor Day: Protecting the vulnerable

As we pause for prayer today, we remember that environmental damage often impacts those who are most vulnerable, including the poor, sick and those at the margins of society.

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Celebrating Earth Day: Inside and Out

In his book Love Letter to the Earth, Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hahn asks us to view our earth differently – which will grow our relationship with it as a result.

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SSM Health celebrates Earth Day with tree plantings and more

In honor of Earth Day, our health ministries focused their attention on planting trees, along with other sustainability efforts such as recycling, seed distributions, environmental clean-up events, and more.

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Celebrating Earth Day: Laudato Si'

Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home is an appeal from Pope Francis addressed to "every person living on this planet" for an inclusive dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our world

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Best Practice Spotlight: Outpatient Growth: "One More"

In this series, we are revisiting each best practice from the 2023 SSM Health Symposium: Celebrating Clinical and Operational Excellence, including “Outpatient Growth: "One More.”

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Airline passenger’s inflight medical emergency lands him at a St. Louis hospital

Read how the medical team at SSM Health DePaul Hospital made a lasting impact on a patient and his family when their flight home from vacation took an unexpected turn.

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A Year of Kindness: Be kind to the earth

As we continue our intentional Year of Kindness campaign and prepare for Earth Day, there couldn’t be a more fitting recipient of our kindness than our common home. Find out April’s prompts for being kind to the earth.

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A prayer for Doctor’s Day

On this Doctors’ Day, let us offer our thanks for the women and men who have responded to the call to be God’s instruments of healing and reflect on what it means to be a “healing presence.”

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Hospital security manager has a special connection to his new job

Rod Hirsch’s daughter spent the first months of her life in the SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital - Madison neonatal intensive care unit. Find out why he says working at the same hospital is giving him a feeling of closure.

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