Care Delivery
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sharpens the sticks and sweetens the carrots to encourage health care providers to reduce avoidable readmissions, better discharge planning has become a priority for hospitals. A number of strategies have shown promise already:
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.
The LGBT community in New Jersey recently welcomed the opening of a new Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital clinic that offers specialized primary care services for the underserved population.
The PROUD (Promoting, Respect, Outreach, Understanding and Dignity) Family Health clinic is part of…
Patient safety
The mountains and plains of Colorado are a magnet for skiers, bikers and extreme-sports enthusiasts. Accidents are bound to happen, often far from medical specialists with the expertise to treat injuries such as concussions.
When Cleveland Clinic launched an initiative to control drug costs, Jeff Rosner, senior director of pharmacy contracting and purchasing, was skeptical. Knowing the pharmaceutical marketplace as he did, he was uncertain whether the academic medical center could significantly reduce its…
When leaders at Parkland Health & Hospital System in Dallas launched a novel program for administering long-term antibiotics to Parkland Memorial Hospital patients, they were seeking to address two problems that vex many provider organizations: disparities in the delivery of health care…
By the time Warren J. Smith III met Kavita Bhavan, M.D., he had had dozens of surgeries stemming from a motorcycle accident that shattered his leg. Altogether, he had spent more than a year in hospital beds, and the serious infection in his leg was another disappointing setback.
So when Bhavan, an…
Now they know it
16%
The proportion of U.S. adults with high blood pressure in 2011–14 who did not know it.
46%
The amount this number declined since 1999–2002.