Entering 2021, we want to celebrate our accomplishments and express our gratitude for our wonderful clients.
In spite of the challenges presented last year, our team has continued to exceed expectations working with clients and advancing the field.
The Enviah team wants to thank you for being a part of our community and invites you to review our successes in 2020 thanks to your support.
As we continue to confront an unprecedented crisis, the frontline workers of the world have continued to help others day in and day out.
The Enviah team wanted to thank the HealthCare Heroes that have made such a significant difference this year. We provided some holiday treats and healthy snacks to show our appreciation to our partners at Covenant HealthCare, Bronson HealthCare, Mercy Health St. Mary’s, and Metro Health | University of Michigan Health.
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.
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.
The selfless acts you and your organization are leading and providing to our communities on a daily basis are a true gift! THANK YOU!!! Our gratitude is more than a feeling, it is a scientifically proven outcome and a positive effect. Emmons (2003) notes chat there are two stages of gratitude: acknowledging the action and the reciprocity of outward expression. Focusing on gratitude’s positive emotions affords us an opportunity to build on each other to improve our physical wellbeing and our community wellness. With a unified purpose for a positive outcome, we understand that we will not only be successful in the combat of Covid 19, but we will all be stronger together for it.
We are incredibly GRATEFUL for you.
We are here to HELP SUPPORT during these trying times.
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.
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.
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.
When Enviah first engaged with North Ottawa Community Hospital (NOCH) it had an outdated facility that was problematic at times for patients and staff. Hospital management knew they needed to make changes and they turned to Enviah to transform operations and the facility environment.
The new book, Dignity and the Organization, part of the Humanism in Business Series, available today, is the first to look at the topic of creating organizations that promote human dignity and management. In the wake of the recent election and the uncertainty of many of our future relationships, the release of the book is timely, as we each have the ability to live the example of human dignity.
