Thursday, August 26th, 2010
By Ed Howe
Former President and CEO, Aurora Health Care
Aligning Forces for Quality is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s signature effort to lift the overall quality of healthcare in targeted communities. The goal is to reduce racial and ethnic disparities and to provide models for national reform.
Dr. John Lumpkin, M.D., M.P.H., the Senior Vice President and [...]
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
By Jennifer Mitchell
Editor, Action for Better Healthcare
The current structure of the U.S. healthcare system is not focused on primary care for patients. Our team of former CEOs, from healthcare systems around the country, says this needs to change and we only have a few years to figure this out.
With thousands of newly insured patients ready to [...]
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
By Jennifer Mitchell
Editor, Action for Better Healthcare
By now, you probably see the pattern. Health reform will shift our current system of care from one that pays doctors and hospitals based on the amount of care they offer, to a payment system that encourages them to keep people healthy and out of hospitals.
Another example of this [...]
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010
By Rick Norling
Former CEO, Premier healthcare alliance
As healthcare reform efforts begin to take shape, you can expect to see changes in the next five years or so in terms of how hospitals function and how they and various physicians offices offer care. Recently our blog team of former healthcare system CEOs discussed what we think [...]
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
By Dr. Seymour Handler – Guest blogger
Retired Pathologist, North Memorial Medical Center, Minneapolis
Most observers would agree that recently signed legislation should more accurately be described as health insurance reform, not healthcare reform. That’s because we still face the inability to control overwhelming healthcare costs.
You may be asking what is causing this? Well, for starters, it [...]
