Strategic Planning
Millions of Americans living in vulnerable rural and urban communities depend upon their hospital as an important, and often only, source of care. These communities and their hospitals, however, face many challenges. As the hospital field engages in its most significant transformation to date…
The U.S. health care system continues to grapple with increased chronic disease management, changing demographics, increased responsibility around care coordination and medical homes, and the elimination of disparities in care. Hospitals will play a significant role in creating and implementing new…
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AHA to bring together, policy, health care leaders
Leaders from Congress, policy groups and health care will come together May 7–10 for the American Hospital Association Annual Membership Meeting in Washington, D.C. This year’s theme is “Advancing Health in America.” Media big…
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…
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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…