Articles
Delivery System Transformation, Financial Oversight, Financial Management, Strategic Planning
A changing landscape
For all its challenges and complexities, health care transformation also presents tremendous opportunities for hospitals — and their boards.
One area in which this duality is playing out is population health management, increasingly important as value-based payment systems become more common.
Care Delivery, Strategic Planning
Moving forward
House calls used to be considered a thing of the past. But while still not that common, home-based care is gaining traction.
The reason? Frail and elderly patients can benefit from house calls, and the concept meshes with value-based payment programs, as Lola Butcher describes in our cover story starting on Page 8.
Financial Oversight, Leadership, Care Delivery, Strategic Planning
Leadership and affordability
An organization's success often comes down to leadership. And it's not just top executives who provide it — trustees have a pivotal role to play, too. Even as they fulfill their oversight obligations, board members can set direction, often with the help of lessons learned during their career.
Care Delivery, Physician Workforce, Strategic Planning, Workforce
Well-being and value
Burnout takes its toll on physicians. It can also take its toll on health care, and it’s become a growing concern for hospitals and health systems across the country.
Physician burnout — marked by emotional exhaustion, “depersonalization” and a lack of feeling of accomplishment — has a number of causes, depending on the specific work environment.
Leadership, Care Delivery
Expanding the field
Hospitals don't serve just their patients. They also serve their communities.
That’s why many hospital leaders are making committed efforts to have their leadership teams reflect the diversity of the populations they serve.
In our cover story starting on Page 8, writer Lola Butcher describes how Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and CHRISTUS Health in Irving, Texas, have brought leaders with diverse backgrounds into the executive pipeline.
Health Information Technology (HIT), Legislation and Legislative Advocacy, Physician Fee Schedule (PFS)/MACRA/QPP, Care Delivery, Quality & Patient Safety, Leveraging Technology
The costs of violence
Violence
Report examines cost of community violence
Community violence cost U.S. hospitals and health systems an estimated $2.7 billion in 2016, according to a report prepared for the American Hospital Association by Milliman.
Care Delivery, Physician Workforce, Workforce
More physicians in the pipeline
Medical school enrollment climbs
28%
Increase in first-year enrollment at U.S. medical schools since 2002.
40%
The portion of that growth attributed to 22 new schools.
Leveraging Technology, Governance Effectiveness, Health Information Technology (HIT), Leveraging Technology
Taking advantage of tech
Technology permeates almost every corner of health care. Patient records, the operating room and primary care providers are all increasingly interconnected.
Financial Oversight, Strategic Planning
Affordability at the fore
Hospitals are dedicated to providing high-quality, affordable care. That’s why so many are devising innovative new care models — models that address affordability in ways that help patients and the health system as a whole.