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Pervis Evans has devoted over 20 years of his professional career in the fields of education and social services, in an effort to advance access and opportunity for underserved populations. He earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Interdisciplinary Studies from Texas Tech University and a Master of Education degree in Counselor Education from Sul Ross State University. Currently, Pervis serves as the Senior Dean for the School of Liberal Arts and Education at Odessa College, a nationally recognized community college in Odessa, Texas. He oversees six academic departments and provides leadership and support to several campus committees, including holistic advising, curriculum, accreditation, career/transfer, and program review committees. Dean Evans led the development of the college's first Honors Program and the establishment of a Bachelor of Applied Sciences degree in Early Childhood Education and Teaching. Previously, Pervis was employed as an academic advisor, an instructor, and a program director at Midland College. He was a regional community relations specialist and an equity specialist with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, and he served as the founding Executive Director of Educate Midland, a nonprofit community impact organization. Mr. Evans serves on the Board of Trustees at Midland Memorial Hospital and was selected as a 2022 Fellow for Deans for Impact, a national network of academic leaders committed to transforming educator preparation. As a performing artist, public speaker, educator, community organizer, and executive leader, Pervis has utilized numerous roles, abilities, and platforms to amplify the voice of hope and to make an impact in his community and abroad.

On today's Health and Wellness edition of The Krista Escamilla Show we visit with Kit Bredimus. Kit shares his journey from wanting to originally become a physical therapist to becoming the Chief Nursing Officer at Midland Memorial Hospital. He explains what a Professional Development Plan is and why you should get one. He also talks about the benefits of a plant based diet and shares health tips that will help you sustain your life longer.  We will let you know the best vitamins to incorporate into your daily routine and the one food item you should eliminate from your diet...today! Plus Kit shares why the book "Man's Search for Meaning" is a must read.   We hope you will join us for this wonderful story on Health, Community and Living Your BEST life.   Thank you to those who are subscribing and sharing our show with friends/family. Those FIVE star reviews are appreciated. Please connect with me @KristaEscamilla on Instagram, Facebook and Linkedin or visit our website www.Kristaescamilla.com    Thanks for Listening DREAM BIG, BELIEVE and NEVER GIVE UP! YOU make it a great day :)

#COVID19 Ep. 8 hosted by Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN. Hear from nurse leaders and frontline staff responding to COVID-19 Perspectives on Caring was a virtual panel interview with chief nursing officers and direct care nurses caring for COVID-19 patients. They discussed the good, the bad and the possibilities for the future and examined the successes, challenges and where to go from here after assessing the current impact of the pandemic on health care and preparing for a potential surge in the fall and winter. Panelists District 1 Linda Lawson, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Chief Nurse Officer, The Hospitals of Providence and Clinical Assistant Professor, Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing, El Paso Enid LeBlanc, MBA, BSN, RN, Director, Infection Prevention and Control, The Hospitals of Providence, El Paso District 5 Sheila Fata, BSN, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, Chief Nurse Executive, St. David’s Healthcare, Austin Shelly Mouser, Staff RN, St. David's Medical Center, Austin District 8 Adam Sahyouni, BSN, RN, Manager COVID-19 ICU, Methodist Healthcare System, San Antonio Gretta Gast, BSN, RN, COVID-19 ECMO ICU RN, Methodist Healthcare System, San Antonio District 9 Josette Armendariz-Batiste, DNP, RN, CCRN, CENP, Chief Nurse Executive, University of Texas Medical Branch Health System, Galveston District 21 Brandon "Kit" Bredimus, DNP, RN, CEN, CPEN, CNML, NE-BC, QMHP-CS, Vice President of Nursing / Chief Nursing Officer, Midland Memorial Hospital, Midland Heather Hale, Staff RN, Midland Memorial

The medical industry’s eureka moment was when they realized the very food, they were serving patients and physicians in hospitals was the very same food placing patients in the hospital in the first place. “U.S. health organizations are calling for hospitals to offer plant-based food options. Two major medical groups in the U.S. are calling on hospitals to end the irony and support patient health with healthy food.The American Medical Association House of Delegates — a group which represents more than 200,000 physicians — issued a policy statement on June 14th at its annual meeting calling on U.S. hospitals to make some changes to hospital food for patients, staff, and visitors: Increase healthful, plant-based meal options, eliminate processed meat from menus, and provide and promote healthful beverages, including getting rid of sugary drinks and sodas.The American College of Cardiology also recently released new guidelines urging hospitals to improve patient menus by adding healthy plant-based options and removing processed meats. The guidelines recommend that “at least one plant-based main dish” should be offered and promoted at every meal. And that processed meats — bacon, sausage, ham, hot dogs, and deli meats — shouldn’t be offered at hospitals at all. They also call for a variety of vegetables and fruits to be served in all hospital cafeterias and on-site restaurants” (Oberst, 2017).We are seeing new healthy food movements sprout out of hospitals around the country. For instance, Dr. Michael Klaper, M.D of Midland Health in Midland, Texas has begun spearheading a new program with the philosophy, “Food Is Medicine.” They have implemented a “new, lifestyle medicine program for their employees incorporating the CHIP model (Complete Health Improvement Program) … The philosophy, "Food Is Medicine" is one Midland Memorial Hospital strongly believes in. As you can tell from the videos…, adopting a plant-based diet has had such a powerful impact on our employees and we believe our community should also have the tools to be successful (Midland Health, 2016).” This medical group has believed so heavily in this program that 2018 will be the third annual Food Is Medicine seminar. They also provide the visitor with all the resources they need to adopt a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle.Additional medical groups of note are adopting a similar strategy include UCLA Medical Center is using organic food. At its cafe, St. Louis Children’s Hospital is offering low-fat, plant-based meals made with no animal products or oils and crafted in small batches by a local company. The University of Vermont Medical Center says it aims to have the most sustainable health care food service in the country. Patients and visitors can enjoy nutritionally dense, minimally processed foods, including a variety of locally produced ingredients. They allow patients to order food when they want it, rather than delivering trays with the same meals at the same time. And the cafeteria serves fresh, organic ingredients and multiple vegetarian options. Another positive development at hospitals are either gardens or farmers’ markets. For example, Stony Brook University Hospital, in Stony Brook, N.Y., has a 2,242-square-foot organic rooftop garden that supplies vegetables and herbs for patient meals. Several Kaiser Permanente Medical Centers in California are teaching their staff about plant-powered eating to pass along information to their patients (Oberst, 2017).According to a 2015 study published in the journal Preventive Medicine Reports, hospital gardens created for staff, patients, and the community could lower rates of obesity in communities they serve and reduce public health disparities by providing members of the community’s greater access to fresh, healthy, plant-based foods. “Regional distribution of gardens was relatively even, with the greatest number located in the Midwest. The South, a region with favorable growing seasons and the highest levels of obesity and preventable chronic disease in the US (May et al., 2013) had the second-highest quantity of healthcare-based gardens. As part of comprehensive approaches to address chronic disease, it is possible that multiple healthcare institutions may benefit from establishing community gardens” (George, Rovniak, Kraschnewski, Hanson, & Sciamanna, 2015).The Healthier Hospitals program is a call-to-action for an entire industry. It is an invitation for health care organizations across the country to join the shift to a more sustainable business model, and a challenge for them to address the health and environmental impacts of their sector. By creating a collaborative setting that engages all stakeholder groups and gives each individual player the tools they need to succeed, HH has created a platform to help health care organizations affect widespread, meaningful change — and measure their impact. Through the collaboration of world-renowned industry experts, HH has developed and is proud to feature a suite of tools intended to make the fulfillment of this mission as easy as possible (Healthier Hospitals, 2012).More and more of the medical community are coming to the realization about what their patients are eating in the hospital is completely counter to providing the patient with the optimal nutrition to prevent the illnesses they are being treated for. Shilpa Ravella, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University, states in her blog post “the science linking a poor diet to illnesses like heart disease and cancer is robust. This past October, the World Health Organization released a report placing processed meat in the highest-risk category for carcinogens and declaring red meat “probably carcinogenic.” Meanwhile, the latest dietary guidelines from the U.S. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion emphasized the health value of plant foods” (Ravella, 2016)“As medical researchers discover more about the foods that keep our bodies well, many hospitals continue to serve foods that promote disease. Last year, the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a nonprofit group composed of 12,000 doctors, issued a damning report about the healthfulness of hospital food in the U.S. Of the 208 hospitals surveyed, 20 percent housed fast-food restaurants like McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A, and Wendy’s on their campuses. And in a study led by Lenard Lesser, a family medicine physician at the University of California, San Francisco, and an advisor on hospital food environments for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 98 out of 233 university-affiliated teaching hospitals (around 42 percent) had at least one fast-food franchise on campus. Lesser’s findings were similar to another report published in JAMA in 2002, which found that six of the top 16 hospitals in the U.S. housed fast-food establishments” (Ravella, 2016)The medical community is a great litmus test for looking at our own health and diet in the Christian community. How often do we carry the very food items in our church café or snack stands the medical community to turning away from? If a secular industry can embrace the idea of whole-food, plant-based meals why is it so hard for us as Christians to do the same? As a result, we need to take a hard look at the way churches are feeding their congregations and their communities. Going a step farther, before preparing and serving meals to the military, to orphans, widows, the downtrodden, or the homeless, we should be evaluating whether or not we are serving healthy food to enrich their bodies.Therefore, as Christians, we are called to hold one another accountable in all aspects of the Christian life. Being in the community as a Christian is not limited to carrying heavy physical or emotional burdens on Sundays or in our small-group bible studies twice a month. If we are starting off our gatherings from a place of weakness by what we consume how can we expect to be attentive and functioning in a way gratifying God and helps us connect with our community at a deeper level. We have forgotten our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who dwells within us, which has been sent by God. We have to remember this body we are given is not our own, but it was a lent to us by God to carry out the work he has in store for us. We are the stewards of the body and the temple of the Holy Spirit but the current way we look approach caring for our bodies, as Christian men are broken.In the beginning, when God created food for us to eat, he provided all of the trees, fruits, and herbs pleasing to the eye and good for food. We need not want for more because it was already there for us. As sin began to enter the world and death came into existence, eating meat from animals was by choice without God. With God providing all of our food needs, there is no necessity for meat. Unfortunately, our culture has adopted the idea to primarily rely on meat for protein and nutrients. We’ve fallen into a diet and health routine because it’s how we’ve been told to do it all our lives and we have been given the tools to recognize how it can be changed for the better. As Christians we have to re-define consumption to include food consumption along with other forms, guarding our whole body against all forms of attacks from Satan whether they be physical, emotional, auditory, visual, and spiritual. How many small battles can we take back at the dinner table for ourselves, our families, our friends, and our communities?As a Watchman for God’s kingdom, we cannot disregard the knowledge of protecting our temple fortresses. Satan wants to tear down the walls of the temple even if it means one individual at a time. We see this struggle even from a secular perspective as the trend of obesity has been steadily increasing in both children and adults despite many public health efforts for improvement. We still find ourselves wrestling with most health issues that are preventable. If our individual health is diluting the Body of Christ’s health, how much more is Satan attacking our lives and our spiritual well-being? The Body of Christ is only as healthy as the unhealthiest part of the body, then the individuals making up the Body of Christ collectively need to be healthier. Dealing with our overall health is less about ourselves and more about how we are helping others get and stay healthy. We make decisions every day affecting multiple facets of our life, through which, we dictate how we will carry out our responsibility to the Holy Spirit; as well as, the Body of Christ. We need to radically change the way we, as Christians, view diet and health in our church and community culture.Even though we have read the verses saying things are safe and acceptable to eat. We know this was in regard to the Laws of Moses not as something healthy or as something we must rely upon. Therefore, with modern science and technology, we can deduce what healthy is for our bodies, even though, it is permissive or clean to eat all things under God’s Law.Fasting gives us the opportunity to realize what we think we desire is to be closer to Jesus. Our desire to be fulfilled comes from the Lord and not from the things bringing us satiation. Fasting removes food as the basis for reliance on God but it also encompasses other areas of our life when we can experience a fast, whether it be physical things, material items, hobbies, security, sex, alcohol, drugs. Fasting is used in times of sadness and fear to prevent us from turning inward. Instead, we turn outward to God for guidance and strength. The war of attrition is won through the hearts and minds of the warriors. We either stay connected to the source which gives us the strength, or we fall down. As Christian we join God in our place of fasting; in order to, wait on the Lord and let Him reveal his great plan to us.We are seeing new healthy food movements sprout out of the secular hospitals around the country adopting a plant-based diet to positively impact their employees and providing the surrounding community with the tools to be successful. As a church, we should be enacted strategies and tactics to follow their example by adding nutrition and food health to the current outreach efforts. As we see the medical industry as a whole calling this movement into action, how much more wonderful would it be to see Christians following suit. More and more of the medical community realize what patients eat has a direct correlation to the overall health of the hospital and its community. The Church shouldn’t just be praying for those who fall ill or the misfortune of a bad diagnosis. We should actively seek better ways to feed our church and community. As Christian we need to be proactive, instead of remaining reactive. As Christ-centered communities, we need to take a hard look at where we are now and the trajectory we are on as a whole. As Abraham Lincoln once said, “If we could first know where we are and whither, we are going, we can better judge what to do, and how to do it.”Finally, we must ask ourselves as Christian, are we enriching the Body of Christ or are we losing battles one meal at a time?

What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is the concept of maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens. Jennifer Whitehead, Stress Management Specialist at Midland Memorial Hospital, joins the podcast team to share information on the practice and how it can help our community.

MINDFULNESS--WHAT THE HECK IS THAT? Mindfulness is the concept of maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens. Jennifer Whitehead, Stress Management Specialist at Midland Memorial Hospital, joins the podcast team to share information on the practice and how it can help our community.

What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is the concept of maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment, through a gentle, nurturing lens. Jennifer Whitehead, Stress Management Specialist at Midland Memorial Hospital, joins the podcast team to share information on the practice and how it can help our community.

To improve staffing capacity, Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, TX, uses predictive analytics. Hear how the system creates value through higher patient experience scores, lower labor costs, less overtime and higher nurse satisfaction scores.

Marcy Madrid is Vice President of Planning and Marketing at Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, Texas. (That's about halfway between Dallas and El Paso on I-20.) When Midland decided to embrace plant-based nutrition as a pillar of their disease-treatment protocol, Madrid was brought in to spread the message. Both internally, and to the larger community. What she didn't expect was to need that message herself, and soon.

This week we will hear Dr. Bob Dent, Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer from Midland Memorial Hospital, Midland, TX share his story on how he became a nurse. Dr. Dent also currently is serving as President for the American Organization of Nurse Executives

This week we will hear Dr. Bob Dent, Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer from Midland Memorial Hospital, Midland, TX share his story on how he became a nurse. Dr. Dent also currently is serving as President for the American Organization of Nurse Executives

Health care organizations are faced with staffing challenges every day, whether it’s a shortage of physicians and nurses or labor costs overruns. Like other industries, health care is turning to predictive analytics to strategically plan for the future. In this episode of The Cerner Podcast, Bob Dent shares how weaving the art and science of staffing to align nurse assignments can improve patient outcomes. Bob is the senior vice president, chief operating and chief nursing officer at Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, Texas.

Dr. Bob Dent is the Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer for Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, Texas. LearnChair Radio host Bob Dragone was looking for an organization that operated on a firm set of leadership standards when he came across Midland Memorial's remarkable leadership principles. The discussion with Bob Dent examines how the hospital established its leadership standards and how Bob and his staff ensure every employee lives up to them.  Bob relates how Midland Memorial developed its Leadership Pledge and how every employee is introduced to a Culture of Ownership.  Every day Bob conducts leadership rounds to interact with both staff and patients.  In this manner, the hospital builds and maintains lasting relationships with patients, families and the Midland community.  Midland's strong commitment to staff encompasses a unique policy on meetings which many companies might envy.  Bob adds his own insights on what characteristics a good leader should have on top of the standards set by his hospital.  This podcast is a valuable look at how an organization can make leadership work every day.