Strategic Planning
A chance moment kick-started Eugene Woodsâ career as a health care leader more than 25 years ago, and a simple health careârelated accident tha...
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Homelessness is a growing problem in many communities, and many health systems are stepping up to be part of the solution.
In the era of population health management, housing initiatives can have a positive return on investment if they help reduce avoidable emergency…
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has rolled out a new Medicare physician payment system. The system will affect payment starting in 2019, with data reporting beginning in 2017.
Leaders of small rural hospitals believe success under Medicare…
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…
A rural Oregon hospital, Sky Lakes Medical Center, is jumping into the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Advanced Alternative Payment Models, which are the elite track of Medicare’s new clinician payment system, the Quality Payment Program. Providers in Advanced…
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…
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More and more hospitals are joining larger health systems.
Boards that want their hospital to remain independent have a number of strategies they can follow.
Among them are maintaining and developing a strong corps of physicians and specialists, paying attention to…
Millions of Americans in both urban and rural communities are unable to access essential health care services. A new report from the American Hospital Association, Task Force on Ensuring Access to Care in Vulnerable Communities, offers nine innovative ways to improve access for vulnerable…
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Health care is undergoing rapid transformation, and developments in 2017 should prove no exception.
Hospital trustees need to stay on top of trends sweeping the field.
New payment structures, cost pressures and system integration — combined with …
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…