Marty Stempniak

Articles

Governance Effectiveness, Nurses, Operational Excellence, Care Delivery, Physician Workforce, Quality & Patient Safety, Strategic Planning, Issues & Trends, Workforce

Hospitals step up efforts to fight opioid abuse epidemic

By Marty Stempniak

Trustee Talking Points

  • Misuse of prescription opioids is reaching crisis proportions in the United States, with an estimated 44 people dying every day from an overdose of such painkillers.
  • The problem cuts across demographic and geographic categories, enveloping the young, the old, the rich, the poor and those in between.
  • The hospital field and governments are taking extra steps to combat the problem, both in prevention of addiction and treatment of patients already hooked on the drugs.

What Physician-led ACOs Can Teach Hospitals

By Marty Stempniak

Framing the issue:

• Physician practices are forming their own accountable care organizations, free of contracts with particular hospitals.

• Early returns have shown that such doctor-led ACOs have performed better than hospitals in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, with some saving millions by reducing hospitalizations.

The Patient Experience

By Marty Stempniak

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Maximizing the patient's experience is a hot topic for hospital executives. While this notion isn't new, it's been pushed to the forefront because of satisfaction surveys, increased competition and the Yelp-ification of health care.