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Financial Oversight, Care Delivery, Workforce
Century Club Growing
Century Club Growing
Number of Americans 100 years old and older:
1980: 15,000
2000: 50,281
Delivery System Transformation, Financial Oversight, Governance Effectiveness, Nurses, Operational Excellence, Care Delivery, Physician Workforce, Strategic Planning, Leveraging Technology, Issues & Trends, Workforce
Using predictive analytics to make the most use of Big Data
Is there a more intimidating phrase out there today than Big Data? It sounds like some sort of bully. Oh-oh, avert your eyes, Big Data is swaggering this way.
Delivery System Transformation, Financial Oversight, Governance Effectiveness, Care Delivery, Quality & Patient Safety, Strategic Planning, Issues & Trends
How many new cancer cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year?
Cancer Forecast
1,685,210 new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in the U.S. this year.
595,690 people are expected to die in the U.S. this year.
Governance Effectiveness, Nurses, Operational Excellence, Care Delivery, Physician Workforce, Quality & Patient Safety, Strategic Planning, Issues & Trends, Workforce
Data about obesity, schizophrenia, patient lies
Our Obesity Problem
36.5% of American adults are obese.
Here’s how it breaks down by age.
Governance Effectiveness
New members of the AHAs Committee on Governance
The American Hospital Association announced appointments to the 2016 Committee on Governance, a specialty committee of the board that provides input for the AHA’s policy development, leads involvement of hospital trustees in grassroots advocacy, provides advice on trustee initiatives and enhances involvement of trustees in the AHA.
Margaret Wagner Dahl is the 2016 COG chair and Andrew M. Stern is chair-elect.
Delivery System Transformation, Nurses, Operational Excellence, Care Delivery, Quality & Patient Safety, Strategic Planning, Leveraging Technology, Issues & Trends, Workforce
Health care data on infant mortality, online health information, nurses, drunk driving
Infant mortality hits record low
The U.S. mortality rate fell 2.3% in 2014, to a record low 582.1 deaths per 100,000 live births. The drop was led by a 13.5% decline in deaths from respiratory illness.
Delivery System Transformation, Financial Oversight, Governance Effectiveness, Operational Excellence, Strategic Planning, Leveraging Technology, Issues & Trends
Two to get started
When you agreed to serve on the board of a hospital, you probably knew that health care was changing. But I bet you didn't anticipate how sweeping that transformation would be — from how providers are reimbursed to how and where care is delivered; from medical technology that's continuously evolving to breakthrough treatments for all kinds of diseases; from skyrocketing drug prices to the rise of consumerism.
Governance Effectiveness, Nurses, Physician Workforce, Strategic Planning, Issues & Trends, Workforce
OSHA webpage on workplace violence in health care
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has created a Web page featuring strategies and tools to support OSHA’s “Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Healthcare and Social Service Workers.” Visit www.osha.gov/dsg/hospitals/workplace_violence.html.
Care Delivery, Quality & Patient Safety, Strategic Planning, Issues & Trends
Diabetes rates decline
The number of new cases of diabetes diagnosed in the United States declined significantly from 2009 to 2014 after steadily rising for 25 years, according to data released in December by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The country recorded 1.4 million new cases in 2014, down from 1.7 million in 2008, a decline of about 20 percent. The drop was largest among whites, who had a lower incidence rate overall.