The Choluteca Bridge

A 1930s engineering feat in Honduras is a metaphor for today's healthcare system, according to several speakers at the December Institute for Healthcare Improvement National Forum in Orlando, including Don Berwick, MD, former CMS administrator, and Scott Weingarten, MD, of director of health services research at Cedars Sinai Health System in Los Angeles.

The Choluteca Bridge was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with such design strength, it could withstand the worst of hurricanes that affected the area. When Hurricane Mitch came in 1998, it destroyed 150 Honduran bridges, but not the Choluteca Bridge. Instead, the storm rerouted the Choluteca River. So now, the Choluteca Bridge is useless.

Today's healthcare organizations are like the Choluteca Bridge, because they were designed and built for a different river, the heavy-duty, invasive procedures in high volume and serious illness, not for prevention and health, several speakers said during a recent talk at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement meeting in Orlando.

Via @HealthLeaders

Reflection

I was 14 when my father died. I miss everything about him. He taught us that we shouldn’t be people of success; we should be people of values, because that is the only thing that endures. (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.) What is my goal in life…to seek success or to be a person rooted in values that endure?

China Pics 2012

Here is where you can see my China pics:

http://hollylocks.shutterfly.com/pictures/156

Kodak Assembly Line in Shanghai, China

Rawski - took these photos just for you!

#daboot at DTW

Evv airport with # daBoot

#daboot waiting for the bus with Zoe

Ice #daBoot

In rehab...seeing the MD tomorrow

Foot a little better

A little better each day

Progress!!

#daBoot is helping my foot recover!!

#daBoot at Turonis on Main Steet

Bar pic and no I wasn't drinking just good Hawaiian pizza

#daBoot at an Icemen Game

Here is the photo from the Icemen game on Saturday! The game made the history books with the first sold out game for the #FordCenter.

#daBoot and the big week ahead

So, this is a big week this week. I will have been to Turnoni's and an Icemen game in Evansville, Indiana then on to Cincinnati for work, and then on to China for my @UEBusiness international trip for my #MBA. I will be posting pics along the way!!

First pic of #daBoot

Here is my first post of #daBoot from my kitchen!

the foot without #daBoot

here is the awesome progress of the foot without #daBoot, but good news is the swelling is really down!

#daBoot

The story of #daBoot begins here. On my 38th birthday I was a Pump it Up (a party bouncy house place). We were there for my daughter's 6 year old party, her birthday was the day before mine. I came down a big bouncy slide and my foot hit the big pillow at the end wrong. Went to the Ortho Urgent Care the next morning to find out I had a spiral fracture on my big toe, severely sprained ankle and an injured achilles. Well the next set of posts to follow, will be my trips around the world with #daboot. Have fun following!

Microeconomics

So, our professor tells a story how after one of his finals in college he took the book and ran over with his car in the parking lot. I feel like that now with his class in microeconomics. My brain is just made more for marketing!

Blueberry Pineapple Dump Cake

Awesome Recipe!!

Blueberry Pineapple Dump Cake
· 1 20 oz can crushed pineapple
· 2 cups of fresh blueberries
· 1 box of your choice of cake mix (I used white)
· ½ cup of melted butter

Drain off the pineapple juice (save it) and then just put the blueberries and pineapple in the bottom of the pain.
Mix the pineapple juice and melted stick of butter with the cake mix – spread over fruit
Optional (Can drizzle brown sugar on top)
Bake at 350F for 45-50 minutes

The new clubhouse

I wish you all could have seen Zoe and Jayden's reaction when we got home yesterday. Zoe just kept saying Oh my and Jayden just kept gasping and saying it's a house! We played in the rain and then it let up. It was worth it to clean up the wet and muddy kids to let them play on their new swingset. It was better than Christmas morning.

Now Zoe has deemed it the 'clubhouse.' Think she is taking that one from Mickey Mouse. =)

Beloved Books

My kids are both BOOK HOGS. They love to read and/or be read to. I just love when I see worn out books. It means that a child has loved that book so much until its last days. It signifies this book's story has been loved and cherished. It represents some of the best bonding times with my kiddos and I love spending this precious time with them.