By Alex Blackwell

Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count. – Author Unknown

Article written by contributor Gary Polsky of Apex Lifestyle Design.

After spending decades in healthcare administration, navigating the red tape and bureaucracy that steers the most intimate and vulnerable times in our life — when we are sick or dying — I decided it wasn’t right.

It wasn’t right for patients to be cooped up in a cold hospital where nurses were overburdened with too many patients. It wasn’t right that families were pulled away from a critical patient to discuss insurance and payments. It wasn’t right that patients’ last wishes were not being honored as DNRs were overlooked for the doctor’s preference.

That’s when I decided there was a better... More...