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The Elevate Award: Recognizing Our People
The “Elevate Award” is a Vail Health Patient Experience award program that provides ongoing, meaningful staff recognition, acknowledging the skill and compassion our team members provide to patients and their families. This award directly aligns with our organizational Mission of elevating the health of our mountain communities.
Patient and family members are encouraged to nominate staff who made a meaningful difference in their health care experience. Nominees can work in any area of our healthcare system—from admissions to the lab, to our surgery centers, Howard Head Sports Medicine, Shaw Cancer Center, Colorado Mountain Medical, Eagle Valley Behavioral Health and more. To nominate a staff member, fill out the form below or pick up a printed form in one of our facilities.
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Chronic Inflammation: What It Is, Why It’s Harmful and How to Reduce It
Inflammation in the body is a normal and healthy response to injury or attack by germs. We can see it, feel it and measure it as local heat, redness, swelling and pain. Inflammation is the body’s way of getting more nourishment and immune activity into an area that needs to fend off infection or heal.
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Can Heat Help Heal Depression? Vail Health is Researching the Possibilities
Vail Health is continually looking for innovative, science-backed ways to elevate physical and mental health. One of the newest areas its research team is studying is the effects of heat on depression, and specifically the purposeful use of elevated temperatures to trigger positive health outcomes.
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Vail Health + Surf Synergy Ignite Longevity In Costa Rica
Living is one thing, but truly being alive is another. Our time in this world is measured in seconds, and the goal is to fill as many of them as possible with the things that bring us joy. Vail Health embodies this philosophy, and I had the privilege of experiencing it firsthand at their inaugural longevity retreat at Surf Synergy in Jacó, Costa Rica.