The future of care delivery goes under the microscope 

More than 1,000 executive leaders from the nation’s top hospitals and health systems convened at the 2023 AHA Annual Membership Meeting, April 23-25 in Washington, D.C.

The future is in innovation, both in process and in thought, according to a panel of health care leaders at Sunday’s Evolving Systems of Care for the Future session at the AHA annual meeting. The panel, which included AHA board member Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health, and Jennifer Havens, CEO of UnityPoint Health-Grinnell Regional Medical Center, discussed how smaller organization can remain viable by refusing to remain complacent in their daily work, and instead face new challenges head-on. 
  
“I’m tired of the status quo,” said Decker. “And I think we need to really address the issues about health equity and affordability, about quality and safety, accessibility, and we need to move forward some innovative ideas to really transform that will then address some of the areas for customer care.” 
  
Also participating on the panel, former Federal Trade Commissioner Noah Phillips discussed antitrust law and the FTC’s scrutiny of mergers, with labor questions driving many compelling arguments in favor of combining hospitals. 

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