{"id":1581,"date":"2011-03-01T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/practicalmattersjournal.ecdsdev.org\/?p=1581"},"modified":"2015-10-11T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T21:36:08","slug":"strengthening-and-aligning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmcleanup.ecdsdev.org\/2011\/03\/01\/strengthening-and-aligning\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengthening and Aligning Religious Health Assets in Memphis: A Conversation with Gary Gunderson and Bobby Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following video is a conversation between Dr. Gary Gunderson, senior vice president of Faith and Health for Methodist Healthcare, and Reverend Bobby Baker, Director of the Congregational Health Network for Methodist Healthcare. The two discuss the hospital\u2019s role in aligning and strengthening religious health assets in addition to the challenges and promises of working across various religious, ethnic, and cultural divides. Drawing on the work of the African Religious Health Asset Programme (ARHAP) and the Interfaith Health Program at Emory University, the work of this Memphis hospital is grounded in the belief that patient care and health care research should grow from the \u201cblended intelligences of faith and the health sciences.\u201d From their website:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlended intelligence\u201d refers to our work in integrating a wide variety of information\u2014community wisdom, hospital data streams, academic research, and the best practices knowledge from local and international partners\u2014for research that is intentional about impacting practice, broadly defined and at several levels.<\/p>\n<p>This short video conversation explores this type of collaborative work, which seeks to bridge the faith and health communities in an effort to provide increased access and excellent health care to the people of Memphis.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/134993460\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Strengthening and Aligning Religious Health Assets in Memphis: A Conversation with Gary Gunderson and Bobby Baker\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: \u00a0Memphis from the Air. \u00a0Public Domain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following video is a conversation between Dr. Gary Gunderson, senior vice president of Faith and Health for Methodist Healthcare, and Reverend Bobby Baker, Director of the Congregational Health Network for Methodist Healthcare. The two discuss the hospital\u2019s role in<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-readmore\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pmcleanup.ecdsdev.org\/2011\/03\/01\/strengthening-and-aligning\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,14],"tags":[410,411],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pmcleanup.ecdsdev.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Memphis_skyline_from_the_air.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcleanup.ecdsdev.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcleanup.ecdsdev.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcleanup.ecdsdev.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcleanup.ecdsdev.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcleanup.ecdsdev.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pmcleanup.ecdsdev.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"https:\/\/pmcleanup.ecdsdev.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcleanup.ecdsdev.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmcleanup.ecdsdev.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcleanup.ecdsdev.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmcleanup.ecdsdev.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}