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Janesville, WI (PRWEB) September 26, 2012

Mercy Health System, Javon Bea President and CEO: Working Mother magazine today announced Mercy Health System as one of its 2012 Working Mother 100 Best Companies. Working Mother rewarded companies based on the wide array of progressive workplace programs, including child care, flexibility, advancement and paid family leave. In addition, Mercy is named a Top 10 Best Company for Health and Wellness.

“We are very honored to be listed among the best companies for working mothers,” says Javon R. Bea, president and CEO of Mercy Health System. “Working mothers continue to make valuable contributions in all areas of Mercy Health System. It’s both our pleasure and responsibility to ensure that we create a supportive and flexible work environment that enable them to succeed.”

To recognize Mercy’s continuous leadership as a best company for working women, Mercy asked its employees (called partners) to nominate themselves or a fellow Mercy mom to be deemed Mercy’s Working Mother of the Year by submitting an essay; the essays showcased how Mercy has helped contribute to the partner’s work/life balance, allowing moms to be successful at balancing it all: a successful career, a loving family and time for themselves. After careful review of over 40 finalists, one winner was chosen, Nina Graham, RN, at Mercy Hospital and Trauma Center.

Mercy will be recognized in the October/November issue of Working Mother magazine, on WorkingMother.com and will be honored at the Work Life Congress in New York City, October 8.

To read why Nina was chosen, visit MercyBlogs.org and click on “partner and patient stories.” For more information about Mercy Health System, visit MercyHealthSystem.org.

Founded in 1895, Mercy Health System is a not-for-profit, vertically integrated multi-specialty health system that serves more than one million individuals through its 68 facilities in 26 southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois communities. Since 1989, Mercy Health System has grown from a stand-alone community hospital with no employed physicians and no ambulatory care centers into a comprehensive, vertically integrated health system offering an extensive network of primary and specialty care physicians, three hospitals, subspecialty centers of excellence, insurance products, long term care, retail services, and preventive health and wellness programs. Mercy employs over 400 physicians and nearly 4,000 employees, who are called partners. Mercy Health System is headquartered in Janesville, Wisconsin. Javon Bea is the President and CEO of Mercy.

Working Mother Media, a division of Bonnier Corporation, publishes Working Mother magazine and its companion website, WorkingMother.com, and the Working Mother Research Institute. The National Association for Female Executives (nafe.com), Diversity Best Practices (diversitybestpractices.com) are also units within WMM. Working Mother Media’s mission is to serve as a champion of culture change. Working Mother magazine reaches more than 2 million readers and is the only national magazine for career-committed mothers; WorkingMother.com gives working mothers @home and @work advice, solutions, and ideas. This year marks the 27th anniversary of the magazine’s signature research initiative, Working Mother 100 Best Companies, and the 10th year of the Best Companies for Multicultural Women.

Colorado Springs, CO (PRWEB) September 06, 2012

Ghost hunters say The Stanley Hotel is one of the 10 most haunted hotels in the world. The hotel, featured yearly on television’s paranormal investigation shows, will be the site this Halloween weekend of Being Heard’s inaugural couples retreat, “Hunting for the Ghosts of Your Past”. Opened in the Rocky Mountain town of Estes Park, Colorado by F.O. “Stanley Steamer” Stanley, the hotel is said to be the inspiration for Stephen King’s “The Shining”. The long and elegant career of The Stanley — it’s on The National Register of Historic Places and a member of The National Trust for Historic Hotels — may add to its purported ghostly infestation, and may account for why some still call it home after 100 years.

The location compliments Being Heard’s ghost-hunting theme. “We’re not looking to scare couples into each others’ arms,” smiles Kathe Skinner, principal and co-owner of Being Heard. “We’re tapping into the intensity of The Stanley to point out how reality is formed by absorbing thoughts, beliefs, and experiences in our families of origin. When couples form, those individual realities collide, keeping partners as stuck in place as The Stanley’s ghosts.”

Ten years ago, psychologists Jeffrey Young and Janet Kosko illuminated a template for recognizing dysfunctional thoughts based on early experiences (schemas), understanding their impact on feelings, and indicating a way to change behavior. “Schema work gives couples a directional nudge, gets them off their butts, moving and unstuck. Exploring new and different directions,l resuming those individual and couple journeys, is incredibly scary, and powerful at the same time,” maintains Skinner.

“Achieving a better relationship is notoriously challenging, so our idea is to provide clients with a luxurious, interesting, and relaxing venue where powerful work doesn’t compete with daily life,” adds David Skinner, co-owner and co-instructor at Being Heard. “Because each retreat focuses on one aspect of relationship health, we work at matching themes to destinations, like pairing wedding vows with Las Vegas. We’re proving that couples work doesn’t have to be unpleasant.”

Couples at Being Heard’s Stanley Hotel Halloween Retreat hunt for what haunts their relationships, shining light on schemas (ghosts), and daring to call them out. The company plans to harness The Stanley Hotel’s power as couples negotiate the maze of old thinking and create new behaviors.

About Being Heard

Formalized in 2004, Being Heard is proud of a twelve-year record of teaching couples communication skills. Products include an expanded Couples Communcation workshop, Destination Retreats for Couples, Relationship Coaching, and Schema Workshops. Products are innovated and developed by Relationship Coach Kathe Skinner, a 16-year veteran Marriage & Family Therapist and Certified Relationship Specialist, and are taught by husband-and-wife relationship educators Kathe and David Skinner.

More information can be found at http://www.BeingHeardNow.com.

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West Hempstead, NY (PRWEB) August 14, 2012

Continuing Education Company, Inc. (CEC) is an independent, non-profit, 501 (c)(3) continuing medical education organization who has been developing and presenting continuing medical education programs for over 20 years. Their mission is to develop and provide educational opportunities to improve the skills and knowledge of medical and healthcare professionals. This is accomplished offering American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) accredited live CME lectures, symposia, and conferences.

Presented by Continuing Education Company for the past 20 years, the Primary Care CME Conference Series is designed to update family and primary care clinicians, internal medicine physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants in rapidly changing therapeutic areas. The emphasis is on practical and useful information for clinical practice. This year from October 22-26 2012, the Primary Care Fall 2012 Conference is being held in Maui, Hawaii at the Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa, a AAA four diamond oceanfront resort situated along a spectacular stretch of the famed Ka’anapali Beach and on the legendary Block Rock.

The agenda for this live and informative continuing medical education conference (CME) has just been released by the Continuing Education Company’s Conference Advisory Board. Topics include but are not limited to Office Emergencies, Update on Viral Hepatitis, Evaluation and Diagnosis of Skin Cancer, Resistant Hypertension, Well Women Exams plus other topics that pertain to the continuing medical education of family practice and internal medicine physicians.

According to Barbara Lyons, VP of Communications for Continuing Education Company, “Physicians who attend this year’s Primary Fall 2012 CME Conference will take home many clinical pearls from this years exciting and dynamic topics presented by our expert faculty”

This CME live conference will take place at the Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa is where the legend of Ka?anapali began. Situated on Ka?anapali Beach at historic Pu?u Keka?a, Black Rock, the ocean side resort is nestled amongst 23 acres of tropical landscaping with 83 percent of the resort?s 508 rooms and suites facing the ocean. The Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa is more beautiful than ever having just completed a $ 6.5 million renovation.

Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa has been named the Starwood Hotels & Resorts 2007 ?Hotel of the Year? for the Sheraton brand, and appeared in TRAVEL + LEISURE Magazine?s list of the top 25 hotels in Hawaii in 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2011. The property has also been named to the list of the top 500 hotels and resorts in the world in 2005.

Additional information is available at the Continuing Education Company website which is http://www.cmemeeting.org