Care Delivery Transformation
Building on foundational principles and operational infrastructure, these care delivery model tactics transcend the wall of the health care system to improve outcomes, patient experience and equity. This enables hospitals and health systems to better meet the needs of their patients and communities while fostering long-term sustainability.
Addressing Affordability Through the Lens of Value
The Care Transitions Intervention (CTI) Program at Sharp Grossmont Hospital (SGH) provides 30-day post-discharge care transition coaching and community resources for underinsured or uninsured vulnerable patients.
When Leaders at Parkland Health & Hospital System, a safety-net hospital in Dallas, launched a program for administering long-term antibiotics to patients, they were seeking to address two problems: disparities in the delivery of health care services and the inappropriate use of health care…
Data analyses of key affordability measures and information on the latest trends, based on current data, to help inform the hospital field. The first, a TrendWatch and compendium provide information to help hospitals and health systems evaluate which value-based payment models…
National spending for hospital care grew just 1.9% over the 12 months that ended in September, the lowest rate since September 2011, according to the latest report from Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending. The report also notes a low rate of hospital employment growth for…
The rapidly rising costs of prescription drugs is causing significant financial challenges for patients and their care providers.
Many groups, including the AHA, are evaluating options for addressing this important issue. However, one recent proposal, which is seriously misguided, would reduce a…
A recent study that claims cancer care is more expensive because hospitals are employing more physicians is misleading and does not consider all of the facts.
Today’s New York Times provides arguments from drug companies justifying the excessive jump in pharmaceutical prices in recent years, saying the higher prices won’t impact patients.