The New Henry Ford Cancer Institute: Building a Place of Hope for Cancer Patients

“Your environment can be the catalyst to an organization’s ability to provide world-class healthcare”, said Dr. Lorissa MacAllister, President, and Founder of Enviah.

“A new building is a significant initial investment; however, it is merely 10% of the life of the building cost. This investment needs to embrace the operations, projected to be at least a 25% improvement by consolidating all services to one location of the organization, from patient care to staff efficiency to achieve decades of growth and success.  The new Brigitte Harris Cancer Pavilion does just that.  The leadership team set this vision in 2017, and today it is now a reality.  Building a world-class cancer institute to deliver, hope, confidence, innovation, humanism, and healing to all who enter the doors.”

Set your space up for success in 2021

Set your space up for success in 2021:  Make your home office a healing space

Over the past year, we have all spent a lot more time in our homes. As we have all learned, your environment plays a large part in your health and wellbeing and should be a primary focus in our everyday life. Now more than ever, it is vital to make sure your space works for you. As most of us also have to live out our professional lives at home, it is important to ensure your home office is equally functional so that both your home and work lives can thrive.  

Dr. Lorissa MacAllister partnered with Dr. Wayne Jonas to share the research evidence of how you can make your living environment a healing space in May of last year. You can read the full piece now on Psychology Today, or keep reading this blog post for the highlights, and learn about actionable steps you can take today. 

Building a culture of health: Transforming the environment to thrive. 

In September of this year, Dr. Lorissa MacAllister was a speaker at the American Heart Association West Michigan Wellness Symposium alongside Jennifer Kirby of Steelcase to discuss how to bring wellbeing into the workplace with a human-centered design approach.

Enviah works with organizations to better align the built environments with their organizational culture, creating a transformation in their systems. In this session, Dr. MacAllister discusses how the built environment can actually be a tool to help support organizations to thrive, and how Enviah works with our clients to create environments focused on being “healthy spaces” aimed to reduce stress and increase overall wellbeing.

Enviah Collaborates Virtually with Women Entrepreneurs during COVID

Even without a pandemic to contest with, being an entrepreneur has never been an easy job. However, because of COVID, more opportunities for entrepreneurs to participate in virtual collaboration to grow their businesses have presented themselves.

In particular, one program sparked the interest of Enviah President and Founder, Dr. Lorissa MacAllister, as it allowed her to participate with other women entrepreneurs in the midwest to elevate their businesses and flourish in a digital-first world. The program was the Executive Education Program, a collaboration between Wells Fargo and the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) founded in May 2020.

In recent months, Dr. MacAllister’s work during the program caught the Professional Woman’s Magazine’s attention, who interviewed her about her experience in the program and how it positively impacted Enviah.

#Opportunity_Covid_19

While the Covid 19 pandemic is a terrible tragedy and has impacted over two hundred thousand people globally and rising daily, I see that we’re also now presented with an opportunity to be ushered into a truly technologically integrated world. In order to reduce the virus’s spread, 7 billion people on all 7 continents are forced to halt their daily lives. With a focus on flattening the curve of this virus, that effort, in turn, has truly flattened our world. And with that flattening, we’re in a global pause, which is an opportunity to live into the new void we find in our lives. We have a void in the place of commutes, social gathering, sporting events, travel, kids’ activities and school, and the list grows every day.

What You Should Care About the Most During Your Hospital Stay

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      Worldwide consumers are slowly taking back control of the decision-making process and are eating away at the power that retailers, business owners and hospitals once had. Technology has become an accelerant in this shift by providing information that patients can access at a moment’s notice. This has led to a more informed consumer base who has embraced a “shop around before you buy” mentality. Hospitals can no longer simply open their doors, but they must have a complete understanding of their cliental and immerse themselves in every part of patient care from start to finish. If a patient’s needs are not met, he or she may not return again for care or possibly worse… the facility’s climate might consist of stress and discomfort, further damaging or stalling the well-being of the patient.

The New North Ottawa Community Hospital: Improving Health one Person at a Time

When North Ottawa Community Hospital (NOCH) leaders envisioned a new emergency department they made a promise to improve health in the Grand Haven, Mich. area. Instead of solely providing reactive health care, where people seek treatment after they’re sick, NOCH wanted to create a community that values and invests in healthy living to prevent illness.