Not for Profit Hospitals

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• The public option and healthcare costs

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Kester FreemanRetired CEO, Palmetto HealthEach month our blog team meets and as former hospital CEOs, we discuss some of the latest issues impacting the world of nonprofit hospitals and medical centers. We want to let you in on the conversation!Below you can read an excerpt from our most recent meeting:Kester ...
  19 hours ago

• The hospital that could cure healthcare

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Mike StephensRetired CEO, Hoag Memorial Hospital PresbyterianIf you want a better understanding of the business practices going on at the Cleveland Clinic, you should take a look at a recent Newsweek article. It is titled “The hospital that could cure healthcare.” The article discusses many strategies the ...
  4 days ago

• Hospitals worry about reform

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Don AmmonFormer CEO, Adventist Health System WestThere is a compelling story today in one of the blogs on The Huffington Post. It explains how a 63-year-old female cancer patient will lose her health benefits if the Senate’s version of health reform - unveiled last night - were to pass. It describes how her COBRA ...
  2 weeks ago

• What health reform looks like in the real world

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Kester FreemanRetired CEO, Palmetto HealthA handful of hospitals are in the process of reforming healthcare and these changes are happening now, without any mandates from Washington. Imagine that!The hospitals are participating in a program called QUEST: High Performing Hospitals, and a recent post on the Robert ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hospital board members and quality care

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  If you read our blog last week you likely read our post concerning a recent survey published in Health Affairs. The post discussed the survey and how hospital board members rank quality care in terms of importance. Another healthcare blog is weighing in on the survey as well. We thought you may want to check it [...]
  2 weeks ago

• What’s missing in the healthcare reform debate

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Mike StephensRetired CEO, Hoag Memorial Hospital PresbyterianSeveral weeks ago I tuned into “The News Hour” on my local PBS channel. T.R. Reid, a longtime correspondent for The Washington Post, was discussing his recently published book, “The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer ...
  2 weeks ago

• Acute care bundling can benefit patients, providers AND payers

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Rick NorlingRetired CEO Premier healthcare alliance Innovative efforts at Geisinger Health System to re-engineer care have led to an exciting concept called acute care bundling.   The boundaries of acute care have typically been admission and discharge processes at hospitals. However, the opportunity for process ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hospitals get ready! Changes are coming

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  We still have several hurdles to jump before healthcare reform becomes a reality but despite the work ahead of Congress, hospitals and their leaders need to prepare for changes coming down the pipeline. Payment reform is almost certain to be a part of any final healthcare legislation and hospitals need to get ready ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hospital board members need to value quality care

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Ed HoweRetired president and CEO, Aurora Health Care This morning I read a shocking headline: “A new survey shows that half of hospital boards don’t rate quality as a top priority.” The survey is printed in Health Affairs, a leading journal regarding health policy. I find it astonishing that so few of these ...
  4 weeks ago

• New Hospital in Florida Means 750 New Jobs

  
  EmploymentSpectator — Authority: 136
  Health First  is building a hospital in Viera, Florida.  The hospital and health complex will be completed in 2011 and is expected to create 750 jobs.  The complex will contain a 100 bed hospital and a medical office complex, along with the Pro-Health and Fitness Center which has already opened on site. Health ...
  5 weeks ago

• What we can learn from veterans hospitals

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 120
  By Kester FreemanRetired CEO, Palmetto Health   Despite what some people say, veterans hospitals are not all bad.  In fact, as an article in The Wall Street Journal today points out, when it comes to going digital, veterans hospitals lead the way.      The system serves more than 7 million patients at 153 ...
  5 weeks ago

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