Acronyms
UMass
Massachusetts Facts
Mind-Blowing Random Facts
General Wellness
100
CMS
What is the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services?
100
These include: Our Patients, Our People, Our Discoveries, and Our Long Term Financial Health
What are the True North Metrics?
100
This is the highest point in the state of Massachusetts.
What is Mount Greylock?
100
This is the only state of the 50 states to border only one other state.
What is Maine?
100
Exercise that makes your heartbeat faster and makes you breath harder is called this.
What is aerobic activity/cardio?
200
GPRO
What is Group Practice Reporting Option?
200
An acronym for the 8 wastes.
What is DOWNTIME?
200
Appropriate in light of its early Colonial history, this is Massachusetts' state flower.
What is the Mayflower?
200
This was the first toy to be advertised on television.
What is Mr. Potato Head?
On April 30, 1952, Mr. Potato Head became the first toy advertised on television. The campaign was also the first to be aimed directly at children; before this, commercials were only targeted at adults, so toy advertisements had always been pitched to parents.
200
This is the body's hardest working muscle.
What is the heart?
300
HIPAA
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
300
This Standard of Respect core definition is: Give your full attention to show you understand and care about what others say.
What is to Listen?
300
This Massachusetts city was the location of the first perfect game in major league baseball history.
Where is Worcester?
On June 12, 1880, the first perfect game in professional baseball history was pitched on this site (the former Worcester Agricultural Fairgrounds) by J. Lee Richmond of Worcester against Cleveland in a National League game
300
This is the only continent without a desert.
What is Europe?
300
This type of fat is produced by a process called hydrogenation and is associated with an increased risk of heart disease.
What is Trans-fat?
400
HEDIS
What is The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set?
400
This Japanese word for "the actual place" is the best place to go to understand the work.
What is Gemba?
400
This Massachusetts university was the only institution that ever gave Sigmund Freud an honorary degree.
What is Clark University?
Sigmund Freud's (1856-1939) only visit to America was in 1909 to give lectures on the new science of psychoanalysis at Clark University and Clark was the only institution that ever gave him an honorary degree.
400
This company is the world's largest tire manufacturer by number of units produced.
What is LEGO?
Lego produced 318 million tires in 2011
400
The earliest written records of this mindfulness practice are from 1500 BCE.
What is meditation?
500
MACRA
What is the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015?
500
This is the year that Memorial Hospital was founded.
When was 1871?
500
This popular ideogram was created by Harvey Ross Ball in Worcester in 1963.
What is a smiley face?
According to the Smithsonian Institution, the smiley face as we know it today was created by Harvey Ross Ball, an American graphic artist. In 1963, Ball was employed by State Mutual Life Assurance Company of Worcester, Massachusetts (now known as Hanover Insurance) to create a happy face to raise the morale of the employees. Ball created the design in ten minutes and was paid $45.
500
This animal's eyes change color through the seasons - gold during the summer and blue in the winter.
What is a reindeer?
500
Doing this activity 100 times is equivalent to 15 minutes of exercise on a stationary bike.
What is Laughing?