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We’ve officially reached a significant milestone. Empathy Affect, our podcast from Fors Marsh Media that is dedicated to exploring the human side of government, has turned 1 year old! A year ago, we focused on a simple yet profound mission: to foster deeper understanding and connection between the public and the real people in government who serve us—their missions, the people they serve, and the true impact of their work.
Read MoreFinding causes. Creating effects. For 20 years our team at Fors Marsh (formerly known as Fors Marsh Group/FMG) has been taking on issues that matter. Many recognize us as the organization responsible for one of the largest behavioral health campaigns in history—the We Can Do This COVID-19 Public Education Campaign for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Now we are unveiling another campaign: a major rebranding of our own.
Read MoreThe workforce has shifted to the (healthy) realization that business isn’t a family. Okay, fair. But that doesn’t mean work has to be a place where you spend 8 hours strictly punching numbers. In truth, we probably spend more time with our coworkers than most family members. There is still room for connection and alignment with the people we’re spending 40 or more hours a week with. The goal of a workplace should be to create an organization that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work and to create safe spaces with like-minded colleagues who can speak their minds without fear of reprisal. A workplace where employees have a voice.
Read MoreVeterans are a valuable segment of America’s workforce. Their military training has prepared them to be high-performing employees with strong leadership qualities. Attracting veterans to any organization makes sense financially and contributes to workplace diversity.
The Military Times 2022 Best for Vets: Employers Survey is now open. Be part of the survey if you’d like to help veterans excel in their post-military careers. Provide your contact information to take part.
Here are five smart reasons to hire a vet as your next employee.
Read MoreThis Earth Day, it's time to take a serious look at climate justice. As a Certified B Corp, Fors Marsh Group has pledged to make a positive impact as stakeholders in global economic, racial, and climate justice. Across the globe, the climate crisis has and will continue to have a disproportionate effect on those who are least responsible for it.
Read MoreMan-of-the-people Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Sunday Today in a 2021 interview that he's ready, willing, and able to take on the ultimate championship title of President Johnson if the American people want him to serve in the real-life role. "I do have that goal to unite our country. And I also feel that if this is what the people want, then I will do that."
So, while we may not be "one nation under Rock, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" quite yet, we can get a glimpse of what that future might look like when NBC's charming flashback sitcom, Young Rock, returns for its Season 2 premiere on Tuesday, March 15 at 8/7C.
Read MoreFors Marsh Group (FMG), a research-first consultancy that applies behavioral expertise to society’s greatest challenges, has been recognized as an Employer of National Service (EONS) for its recruitment efforts to attract AmeriCorps alumni and returned Peace Corps volunteers for employment and advancement opportunities. The EONS initiative began under President Obama in 2014 to celebrate AmeriCorps’ 20th anniversary. The EONS program aims to connect AmeriCorps alumni and returned Peace Corps volunteers with public, private, and non-profit sector employers to create better recruitment, hiring, and career advancement prospects.
Read MoreThe Law & Order universe will be expanding once again, or more accurately, putting itself back to rights when the program returns for Season 21, after an abrupt cancellation in 2010. Yes, the original Law & Order that built an empire is back on NBC beginning Thursday, February 24 at 8/7c. Here’s everything you need to know before it premieres.
Read MoreFors Marsh Group (FMG) is proud to announce it is officially Climate Neutral Certified. In response to the urgency of the climate crisis, FMG, a research-first consultancy committed to tackling society's greatest challenges, committed to measuring and offsetting all 2020 carbon emissions and reducing future emissions. FMG's primary responsibility will be to decrease greenhouse gas emissions generated in its goods and services production, operations, and shipping.
Read MoreThe letter 'B' has become pretty significant around Fors Marsh Group, especially this month since it's our Birthday—we're 19! While we're fêting ourselves through our last year of teenhood, we're also celebrating FMG's recertification status as a B Corporation! There's a lot worth celebrating.
So, what's been going on for the past 19 years?
Read MoreWe’ve witnessed a real transformation for home care delivery over the past year and a half. Sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, technology has taken a “quantum leap” forward as clinicians are now actively embracing integration and working together as a care team to keep patients safe, healthy, and out of the hospital whenever possible. We explored these issues during MEDITECH’s recent virtual 2021 Home Care Symposium, as well as legislative initiatives, software updates, product demonstrations, and upcoming training workshops.
Read MoreOver the past year, COVID-19 has taken its toll on healthcare accessibility — especially for elderly and chronically ill patients, who are at the highest risk for severe disease if they become infected in public spaces like doctors’ offices.
To help keep these patients on track while staying safe at home, Val Verde Regional Medical Center (Del Rio, TX) instituted a remote patient monitoring (RPM) program in conjunction with MEDITECH’s Patient Portal and Raziel Health. The program provides hypertensive and diabetic patients with Raziel blood glucose monitors and scales that can quickly transmit patient vitals to the cloud and Val Verde’s Expanse EHR.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever rolled a nursing WOW into a patient’s room (and if you’re reading this, odds are you have or know someone who has), you know how noisy, bulky, and obtrusive they are. And good luck navigating tight spaces or a room packed during visiting hours. Nurses and patients at Val Verde Regional deserved a better care experience, one that’s genuinely mobile and unencumbered by peripherals that rattle and bump through every face-to-face interaction.
Read MoreThere’s nothing quite like a pandemic to get you to reflect on your ten-year cancer anniversary.
Read MoreIn an effort to stay ahead of the coronavirus pandemic, the Maryland Department of Health mandated on March 3 that all healthcare organizations report back to the state on any patients who present with symptoms of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19); this information would help the state to better track the spread. These daily reporting requirements, which went into effect the next day, posed a challenge for hospitals and clinics…
Read MoreToday we're traveling back in time to February 2, 1907, and visiting The Cascade Theatre. Opening to the public 111 years ago on this date, this Nickelodeon theater promised "the finest class of moving picture art with fine music at all times."
Read MoreDC Universe's most lovable psychopath is turning 25 this year! I met up with dynamic husband and wife duo and Harley Quinn co-writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner at the DC booth during last week's San Diego Comic-Con to learn more about what makes Harley tick, from where they draw inspiration and the good doctor’s possible political aspirations.
Read MoreTake a look back to a simpler time at some truly Dapper Dads at home and on the set with their kids sharing both quiet moments and hamming it up for the camera. Consider this look back in time to be our Father's Day gift to you.
Read MoreYou know the saying, "Always be yourself...unless you can be Batman." But what about the rogues, baddies, and, villains on the outskirts of society who keep heroes like Batman in business? The Joker—already pretty evil himself—met the baddest of the bad when he traveled to The Phantom Zone in this year's The LEGO Batman Movie. There were so many "guest stars" as part of the Joker's crew down on Earth and up in "The Zone" we wanted to have a little fun and pull our Top Ten villains who made their bricky cameos in The LEGO Batman Movie. Here they are in their original incarnations.
Read MoreThis past October, HBO launched the dramatic series, Westworld an odyssey that takes viewers into a world where every human appetite, whatever the desire—be it noble or depraved—can be indulged. But our Westworld of today (well, really tomorrow since it’s set somewhere in the near future) wouldn’t be possible without the Westworld of yesterday; specifically, Michael Crichton’s 1973 experimental sci-fi look into the future of filmmaking: the original Westworld.
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