We can debate whether critical thinking skills are innate or developed over time, but we’re better off recognizing the way our brain is a marvelous muscle designed to grow and develop higher levels of understanding, communication, problem-solving, idea-generation, and more. That’s the conclusion of Business Consultant Larry Alton, who [...]
Sustainability goes beyond food production. How we prepare foods and the ingredients we choose are also factors. Using a fan favorite oats recipe from our friends at Oregon State University's FoodHero.org, PacificSource Employee Well-being Program Manager, Sabrina Black, and Director of Nutrition for the Oregon Dairy and Nutrition Council, [...]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, PacificSource made many COVID-19 services available at no cost to Idaho members. If you live in Idaho, treatment of COVID-19 will return to regular plan benefits, effective July 1. Deductibles, copays, and/or coinsurance will apply. This change in coverage is due to new guidance from [...]
Your best source for health advice is your personal doctor, but there are times when you want to know more about a symptom or explore treatment options. The Health Library is an online health database powered by Healthwise.® This resource allows you to quickly find answers to your personal [...]
Next time you’re about to fire off an email, text, or chat message, just remember: Technology-dependence not only has a way of allowing us to disengage with people, but our in-person communication skills could suffer, too. So, before any genuinely human connections begin to languish and atrophy, consider these [...]
The health effects of climate change are sobering. They include lung and heart diseases, injuries and deaths related to extreme weather, food- and water-borne illnesses, and threats to mental health. The World Health Organization calls climate change “the single biggest health threat facing humanity.” You may be thinking there’s [...]
Whether you’re in the mood to talk pi or pie, Registered Dietitian Lewis Martin provides health tips before circling around to a couple of great pie recipes, one sweet and the other savory: a fluffy key lime pie and an asparagus frittata. What do they have in common? Both [...]
Not only does PacificSource Dietitian Lewis Martin present all sorts of reasons and tips to keep flavor in and salt out, he also spices things up with an easy-to-make peanut sauce. Go ahead, slather it on chicken, veggies, or whatever else you desire: When it’s this delicious, it becomes [...]
Since the March 2020 shutdown, change has been inescapable, whether it’s with our routines, relationships, or with our overall well-being. We’ve all been impacted to some degree, which is why return-to-the-office expectations should be tempered with patience and empathy—if not a fluid set of ground rules. AIM Leadership Founder [...]
Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Edward McEachern, talks to pediatrics specialist, Dr. Mark Buchholz, about hospitalized children—a reality that's preventable through vaccinations. In this video, Dr. Buchholz sheds light on multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) and the risk of COVID-19 among children, and what we can do as parents. [...]
