Care Delivery
Below is an excerpted version of the conversation between H&HN’s Lindsey Dunn and Stacey Jenson, RN, senior vice president of partnership operations at Healthways. To listen to the entire discussion, click on the audio player above.
Trustee talking points
Three percent of patients admitted to children’s hospitals are at least 18 years old, and trends indicate that their numbers will only grow.
As these children with once-fatal diagnoses such as congenital heart disease survive well into adulthood, a treatment…
By now, you, as a hospital board member, are familiar with three terms that are driving much of the transformation underway in our field: value-based care, population health management and the continuum of care. To achieve the goal of improving the quality of the services our organizations…
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Collaboratives or alliances of neighboring health systems are an alternative to formal consolidation.
They provide a way for systems to gain efficiencies of scale without losing independence through a merger.
Population Health
Helping hospitals create community partnerships
A new guide from the American Hospital Association’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative highlights promising practices for creating effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships to build a culture…
If they didn’t know it already, members of the hospital field’s C-suites do now: Keeping health care data out of the hands of cybercriminals is harder than ever.
Thanks to stories in recent months about the escalation in the types of acts criminals will take to profit from stealing…
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The 2014 birthrate for women ages 25 to 29 was 106 births per 1,000, just slightly higher than the rate of 101 per 1,000 women ages 30 to 34, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The only growth in U.S.
We’re four months away from the presidential election, and a lot of Americans are already worn down by the nastiness, name-calling and inanity. Those of us with a low tolerance for watching grown-ups make wild-eyed accusations on TV may have to go back to reading books again. How extreme…