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The BirchTree Center for Healthcare Transformation

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The BirchTree Center for Healthcare Transformation

The BirchTree Center for Healthcare Transformation presents professional development programs for nurses and consultative services for healthcare organizations

12/19/2025

Well, do you have an ugly Christmas sweater to tell us about? Love to hear about it!

Did you know there is an entire website dedicated to selling ugly Christmas sweaters?

Check it out! https://www.uglychristmassweater.com/

We checked it out (didn't buy anything!) and laughed a lot at some of the sweaters. Have fun! 🎁

12/18/2025

I'll bet everyone has something on their bucket list. Well, I have had skydiving on my bucket list for years - and if not now, when? 🪂

Many people have asked what I was thinking just before leaving the plane. The answer? Absolutely nothing - there was no time to think, to be anxious, to feel fear. It all happened in a flash - and then there I was, free falling at 120mph from 13,500 feet.

Talk about an adrenaline rush! 😮

Here are some photos from my jump. Have you done it? Is this something on your bucket list? Would you ever consider doing it? 🪂

12/15/2025

Monday Mindfulness: What can I look at today as if I'm seeing it for the first time? 👀

12/14/2025

Happy Hanukkah to one and all! 🕎

12/10/2025

Social Media 'Detox' Linked to Better Mental Health for Young Adults

MedPage Today - November 24, 2025
https://www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/generalpediatrics/118684

It's Wellness Wednesday - and today we're focusing on social media use in young adults. 📱

Reducing social media use for 1 week was tied to a reduction in negative mental health symptoms in 18- to 24-year-olds, a cohort study suggested. Among nearly 300 young adults, social media "detox" was associated with significant reductions in symptoms of depression (24.8%), anxiety (16.1%), and insomnia (14.5%), but no decrease in loneliness.

"Since our findings suggest that problematic social media use is more associated with adverse mental health outcomes than the quantity of use, interventions may be more effective if they target reducing problematic engagement rather than focusing exclusively on overall reduction in use," reported by John Torous, MD, MBI, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and colleagues.

12/08/2025

“The only way to get change is not through the courts or - heaven forbid - the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart.” - Leslie Marmon Silko

12/01/2025

I am PROUD to be a nurse - RN (1973), MSN (1974), EdD (1991), HN-BC (1996), HSGAHN (2020)! I've been a nurse for 52 years and have been teaching holistic nursing for 42 years (and still going strong!).

You can't say I'm not a professional - or that nursing is not considered a profession anymore (as classified by the Department of Education in the current administration). Agree?

Let's hear from you in the comments!!! Come on - let's hear your voices! 🗣

11/27/2025

Today we are grateful for our well-being, our families, and all of YOU for being in our lives. 🌼

Warm blessings for a nourishing Thanksgiving! 🍂🌾💛

11/26/2025

Food Labels That Rate on a Spectrum Led to the Healthiest Shopping Habits

MedPage Today - November 12, 2025
https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/obesityweek/118478

It's Wednesday Wellness - and here's an interesting article that is thought provoking!

Front-of-package food labels that provide an overall rating of product healthfulness were most effective in getting consumers to shop for healthy products in an online grocery, according to a randomized trial. 🥕🍅🌽🍓🍇

The grocery selections of consumers exposed to "spectrum" food labels -- that used ratings from least to most healthy -- scored highest on a 100-point scale that assessed the healthfulness of foods.

An unhealthy diet is responsible for one in five deaths in the U.S., Anna Grummon, PhD, MSPH, of Stanford University School of Medicine said, and while surveys repeatedly show that Americans want to eat healthy diets and are willing to pay more to do so, they also reveal people are confused about how to accomplish that. A 2022 survey found that half of Americans consider healthy eating a top priority, but half also find it hard to understand what foods are actually healthy.

Research has shown that current Nutrition Facts labels on food packages are not helpful to many consumers, so the FDA announced a proposed rule that would require a simpler "Nutrition Info" box on the front of food packages.

Grummon's study compared the FDA's proposed label to other food labeling types to see whether it increases consumers' understanding of a food's healthiness and whether it increases the healthiness of food people buy.

"We may need to rethink what the best labeling system is to promote population health and health equity, or -- as is the case with food policy generally -- we should consider this within a menu of policies that can move the needle forward and pair it with more targeted interventions to reach the most vulnerable."

11/24/2025

Nursing Is No Longer Counted as a ‘Professional Degree’ by Trump Administration

November 21, 2025
https://www.newsweek.com/nursing-not-professional-degree-trump-admin-11079650

The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it sets about implementing various measures regarding student loans laid out in President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill."

The move has sparked significant uproar among nurses and nursing groups, with the American Nurses Association saying, as reported by Nursing World, that "limiting nurses’ access to funding for graduate education threatens the very foundation of patient care."

This move stems from an effort to rein in student loan debt and tuition costs as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act; however, it means that post-baccalaureate nursing students would only be eligible for half the amount of federal loans as graduate medical students.

WE MUST HAVE OUR VOICES HEARD AND STAND UP FOR THE PROFESSION WE LOVE!!!

Please consider signing these two petitions:

American Nurses Association
https://ana.quorum.us/campaign/professionaldegreepetition/.

RNAction.org

https://rnaction.org/SitePages/Homepage.aspx
Click on the ENGAGE/ Take Action button - scroll down to 'Add Your Name'

11/21/2025

A BIG round of applause for these new board certified holistic nurses! 👏🫶

Sharon Michels
Steven Schwartz
Cidalia Vital
Krystal Aguayo
Kari Meehan
Rebecca Hartman
Heidi DaRe
Bryn Callan

Woo Hoo! Proud of our peeps! 💞🎉💞

11/20/2025

Each year on November 20, the world recognizes Transgender Day of Remembrance – a day to commemorate the transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming persons who are targeted and killed for living authentically and courageously.

Events held on this day provide a forum for transgender communities and allies to raise awareness of the threat of violence faced by gender-variant people and the persistence of prejudice felt by the transgender community. ️‍🏳️‍⚧️

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296 Nonotuck Street Suite #11
Florence, MA
01062

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Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm

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+14135865551

Website

http://www.BirchTreeCenter.com/

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