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REDUCING THE SOCIAL DISTANCE
Due to the COVID-19 PANDEMIC, the need for electronic communication and remote learning is at an all-time high and is now the catalyst for rethinking traditional annual events.

A New Breed of Communications
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The “Faces of Nursing” documentary series “Nursing History–Houston” is two full months of broadcast showing nurses encouraging nurses and other allied healthcare professionals. By celebrating the many faces of Nursing over the last 120 years, nursing professionals will be amazed at how their active roles in caring for others have been pivotal in developing technology, equality, research contributions, and the growth of the Texas Medical Center. This dynamic project is timely and extremely relevant considering the tremendous challenges Nursing has faced in 2020 and into 2021.

The horrific effects of the COVID-19 pandemic devastated the lives of so many individuals and have dictated how we live each day for our own personal safety and those around us. These important protocols brought to light the existing problems organizations were already experiencing in communication. As organizations grew over the years, adapting to new technologies was not a high priority until traditional communications methods were halted by social distance limitations.  The immediate demand for electronic communication during the onset of the pandemic is now becoming the model for new technologies and mobile training. (Seen above: Kelsey McKay with RESPOND Against Violence pre-records training for officers learning important details for first responder interaction with domestic violence calls).
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Executive Producer Jon Lindgren will be accompanied by an assortment of professionals for this year's projects to include three associate producers, four broadcast editors, three photoshop specialists, two animators and a number of musicians.  In 2020 alone, Jon Lindgren has produced over 40 training videos for nurses, 20 training videos for law enforcement, and close to 100 inspirational videos for the spiritual care of medical staff. Jon has spent hundreds of hours of field and post productions to better engage the viewer and continue much-needed training and interactive communications, strengthening relationships that have been strained without community.

Jon is a 30-year broadcast producer, award-winning filmmaker, director and a successful creative marketing executive. He founded ViaMedia, an advertising agency and video production company in 1995. Jon Lindgren has garnered industry awards for his creative accomplishments including a 2005 Tribeca Short Film Festival Award for his short film, “An Everyday Hero”, which won first place. His clients have included the national networks of ABC, CBS, NBC, A&E, ESPN, Fox Southwest Sports, PBS and The Discovery Channel, Sportsmen and Versus Channel.

In 2015, he founded Recovery Network & Broadcast Systems, a patient education platform that is an internal broadcast system for hospitals that empowers patients for better recovery. It is the first IPTV broadcast system designed specifically for hospitals to educate patients at the bedside, promoting service standards in break-rooms and generating additional revenue for new broadcast equipment.

Jon Lindgren is also the Founder of DIREC Educational Programming, a 501c3 non-profit organization, which provides, develops and distributes educational broadcast programming for hospitals, schools and the general public.
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