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This Portland Hospital System is Using Nature to Help its Employees Combat Stress

Workplace stress can be brutal. Its effects, researchers have repeatedly found, are both broad and deep, impacting our health, job performance — relationships. In fact, a 2015 working paper from Harvard and Stanford Business Schools reported the alarming fact that work-related stress accounts for more deaths than Alzheimer’s or diabetes. Yet, aside from the occasional…

"In the midst of pain, anger and frustration, this is an oasis of calm and beauty."

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