February 23, 2016 Not-for-Profit Post-Acute Providers are Ideal Partners in Population Health Strategies Older adults are among the fastest growing age groups, and they are at high risk for developing chronic illnesses and related disabilities. Population health is a strategy that can improve their health and health outcomes.
January 14, 2016 Do Rural Residents Deserve Less Access Than Their Urban Counterparts? Health care is undergoing a major transformation as we move from a volume-based model of care to a value-based model. The Triple Aim focus of improved patient experience, population health, and reduced health care costs is appropriate. But not every hospital can get to the destination at the same pace or even in the same way. The challenge is greatest for small, rural providers.
April 16, 2015 Understanding Hospital Ratings: Consider the Source The federal government has just started using stars (five being the best) to rate patients’ experience of their hospital care.
January 22, 2015 Treat Me Like a Person Not a Number—The Total Patient Experience is What Matters Health care leaders, some more reluctantly than others, are joining a growing national conversation about treating patients as consumers. To be direct, they are facing the fact that the hospital community is not very consumer-friendly when it comes to the total patient experience.
August 15, 2014 Brave Hospitals HAP recently stepped out of its comfort zone, and took a journey in to unchartered territory when we adopted our new strategic plan. The plan is different, bold, and I believe, brave as well.
March 28, 2014 Three Reasons to Apply for BPCI In a Valentine’s Day surprise, CMS announced that it was opening a new round of applications in the Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Initiative (BPCI). Hospitals that weren’t among the initial 467 to request the data to assess this opportunity in 2011 have until April 18, 2014, to submit their request.