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Leadership, Rural issues, Strategic Planning
Shining the spotlight on rural health care
Wherever you fit into health care, no doubt you’ve been a little jittery these past several years as regulatory and market forces — from payment to population health, from the aging of the baby boomers to the rise of health care consumerism — transform our field.
Nowhere is the craving for clarity more potent than among rural hospitals.
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Features
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What Rural Hospitals Need
to Know About MACRA
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 — MACRA — changes the reimbursement system for physicians. Hospital leaders should understand which of their clinicians are affected and what they need to do to get properly reimbursed under the new program.
13 Strategy
Bucking the System
Care Delivery, Rural issues, Strategic Planning
Rural health care leaders to meet in Phoenix
Conference
Rural health care leaders to meet in Phoenix next month
The American Hospital Association and Health Forum’s 2017 Rural Health Care Leadership Conference from Feb. 5 to 8 in Phoenix will bring together top practitioners and thinkers to share strategies and resources for accelerating the shift to a more integrated and sustainable rural health system. It will include a number of sessions that focus on governance issues, including the board’s role in the transition to new payment and delivery models.
Leadership, Rural issues, Strategic Planning
Shining the Spotlight on Rural Health Care
Wherever you fit into health care — whatever kind of hospital or health system, ambulatory clinic, physician office, public health department, post-acute care provider or any other entity in the care continuum — no doubt you’ve been a little jittery these past several years as regulatory and market forces — from payment to population health, from the aging of the baby boomers to the rise of health care consumerism — transform our field. Now, given the imminent changes in federal leadership, the uncertainty is more intense than ever.
Leadership, Succession Planning, Workforce
Are millennials ready to step up?
I work with young people. I mean, really young people. People under 60.
Because I’m not under 60 (don’t ask), I think of myself as something of an expert on how different generations interact in professional settings. And let me tell you, it ain’t pretty.
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Cyber Crisis
While computing technology has become thousands of times more powerful, our methods of securing it have not kept pace. We are seeing more cyberthreats driven by organized crime, hackitivists and nation-state attackers. | Chris Williams
12 Governance
A Whole New System
Governance Effectiveness, Legislation and Legislative Advocacy, Physician Fee Schedule (PFS)/MACRA/QPP, Operational Excellence, Care Delivery, Patient and Family Education/Engagement, Strategic Planning
AHA seeks to strengthen services for trustees
Governance
AHA seeks to strengthen services for trustees
The American Hospital Association board of trustees in July approved a plan to strengthen the AHA’s role in supporting good governance in a changing health care environment. The plan is intended to broaden opportunities for trustee education and engagement across the association rather than concentrate those efforts within a membership model.
Governance Effectiveness, Leadership, Strategic Planning
On the same page
At Trustee, we strive to provide practical tools you, as a board member, can use to better understand and respond to the many changes happening in health care today.
One of our key goals is to enrich the conversations that trustees have among themselves and with their senior management team. We understand that many trustees are not health care professionals, and we want to report on complex — and sometimes wonky or arcane — issues in a way that is valuable to everyone involved in the planning and decision-making process, whatever their level of expertise.