Articles
Governance Effectiveness, Rural issues, Strategic Planning, Issues & Trends
A Farmer, Teacher and the Consummate Trustee
By Lea Radick
Trustee Spotlight
Name: Edward Hatcher
Organization: Grinnell (Iowa) Regional Medical Center
Years on the board: 17
Board roles: President (1997, 1998), (2011, 2012); executive board member (1994–1999), (2009–current)
Profession: Grain and livestock agricultural operator
Care Delivery, Quality & Patient Safety, Trustee Services
CMS Announces Savings in First Year of Home Care Demonstration
By Lea Radick
Participants in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s Independence at Home demonstration saved more than $25 million in the payment model’s first performance year while delivering high-quality patient care in the home, CMS recently announced.
Quality & Patient Safety, Trustee Services
From Volume to Value to Volume Again?
By Lea Radick
As the health care field continues to shift its focus from volume to value, leaders from three major academic health systems are asking surgeons hospitals to minimize the number of patients who undergo certain surgeries to prevent complications linked to insufficient practice.
Quality & Patient Safety, Trustee Services
National Patient Safety Foundation Issues New Root Cause Analysis Guidelines
By Lea Radick
The National Patient Safety Foundation recently released guidelines to help health professionals standardize their use of root cause analysis and renamed the process “RCA2” to emphasize the fact that preventing harm requires both analysis and action to be taken. The guidelines offer nine recommendations for hospitals and systems:
Quality & Patient Safety, Leveraging Technology
HIMSS15 Wrap-Up: Human Touch Still Valued in High-Tech Health Care Landscape
By Lea Radick
In a market flooded with new technologies and apps that aim to make physicians’ jobs easier and patients more engaged with their health care, there is still a need for human interaction, according to speakers at the recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society 2015 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago.