A method for automatically playing and/or displaying audio and/or visual messages reminding persons to engage in a particular activity or to refrain from engaging in the particular activity includes the steps of at a health care facility, selecting a first audio/visual message associated with the particular activity, and at the health care facility, selecting a second audio/visual message associated with the particular activity, which is different than the first audio/visual message. The method also includes the step of at the health care facility, playing/displaying the first audio/video message during a first period of time to a person in a particular area independent of an activity of the person in the particular area. Moreover, the method includes the step of at the health care facility, playing/displaying the second audio/video message during a second period of time after the first period of time to the person in the particular area independent of the activity of the person in the particular area. Specifically, each of the first audio message and the second audio message reminds the person in the particular area to engage in the particular activity or to refrain from engaging in the particular activity.