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Help us name our care model!

User Profile: GlenM
GlenM September 12th, 2016

What we are doing here on 7 Cups is really unique. Trained voluteers + technology + professionals work together to extend healthcare access. Some folks call this task shifting or task sharing. We are not huge fans of those terms, b/c we don't really feel like they capture what we do. When I think of our model I think of renewable energy - it is limitless, it is free, and we are getting better at figuring out how to channel it to help more people. We need a really good name for our model. One that will really stick and highlight the work we are doing, but also provide a framework so that other groups can provide similar care under the same title.

Here are some terms we've been thinking about. The term should sound good with both care or healthcare at the end. For example: renewable care or renewable healthcare, compassion now care, together care or together healthcare, free care, open care or open healthcare, openhanded healthcare, 7 cups care or 7 cups healthcare, horizon healthcare, lean on me care (like the song..what i've been singing all weekend as i think about us), lean on me healthcare, mutual care and connected care or connected healthcare.

The 3 key parts are:

Free - We are volunteers who provide compassionate care to to reduce suffering.

Collaborative - We work together and with professionals to provide the best care that we can given limited financial resources.

Iterative - Our care keeps getting better and better because we keep learning through training and technology experiments.

Any and all thoughts welcome!

Edit - @krinkthemellowunicorn thought of social healthcare today. How does that sound? update 2: Krink is on a roll - weCare.

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User Profile: JLHWillHelpYou
JLHWillHelpYou September 14th, 2016

Future of Telehealth is 7Cups

User Profile: Dauntless1982
Dauntless1982 September 14th, 2016

I think putting the word "free" in there gives a false impression, given that we are encouraged to keep referring people to the therapists here on 7 Cups that most working class people cannot afford. The 7 Cups model includes the therapy, and the therapy is pretty expensive, a feature that most people cannot access due to cost.

GlenM