by Barry J. Jacobs Lost in today’s healthcare headlines about social determinants of health, such as housing, transportation and food insecurity, is greater attention to the original social context of […]

By Carol Zernial WellMed Charitable Foundation Executive Director The hospital. On the scale of caregiver heavy lifting, a hospital visit of any kind requires all hands on deck. Two weeks […]

By Jaime Huysman, PsyD, LCSW “Nothing is permanent in this world, not even our troubles.”  — Charlie Chaplin Physicians, and emergency, surgical and hospital staffs, are trained to work under […]

Carol Zernial WellMed Charitable Foundation Executive Director As I sat at a stop light recently, I saw two young people crossing in front of me. The older sister casually and […]

By Jaime Huysman, PsyD, LCSW The world is a scary place these days, moving faster, changing, threatening to take away that which we depend on to “get by” in many […]

By Jaime Huysman, PsyD, LCSW This business of baseball is only one-half skill. The other half is something else; something bigger! That’s the lead-in line to the song “Heart” in […]

By Dr. Jamie Huysman PsyD, LCSW For many years I would hear people say, “The only sure things are death and taxes.” That may well be true, but it is […]

By Carol Zernial WellMed Charitable Foundation Executive Director All of us probably know someone who is really good at small talk, has many acquaintances, and probably a steady stream of […]

By Dr. Jamie Huysman PsyD, LCSW, CFT In recent years there’s been a lot written and researched about gratitude and “thanksliving” which supports the idea that those who practice being […]

By Dr. Jamie Huysman PsyD, LCSW, CFT For the better part of my career, I have worked to support family caregivers. I have concentrated on the aspect of self-care as […]