Care Delivery
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase & Co. will create an independent company “free from profit-making incentives and constraints” to address health care for their U.S. employees, the organizations announced today.
The 2016 chairman's columns have focused on inspiring stories about hospitals and health systems that are providing exceptional care to impact lives and transform communities all across the country.
Hospitals are working to achieve all elements of the Triple Aim by redesigning traditional ways of delivering care to patients and the community. This collection of case studies features three hospitals and health systems:
SCL Health – Denver, Colorado
Tom NickelsExecutive Vice President Government Relations and Public PolicyJuly 25, 2016The new mandatory payment models proposed by CMS today represent additional efforts by the Administration to attempt to coordinate patient care across multiple settings. America’s hospitals already are…
Find out how hospitals and healthcare systems can disrupt conventional thinking and redesign care delivery to achieve the Triple Aim.
To achieve these goals, hospital leaders are designing new care delivery systems. Adoption of these new systems can be facilitated by new and innovative payment models that center on individual and community needs by rewarding high-quality.
There are many parts of the health care delivery and financing systems that urgently need updating, and the matter of "charges" is among those at the top of the list. "Charges" were a central part of the former cost-based reimbursement system that disappeared from the scene decades ago.
It is important to work together to design more value-driven, primary, health and wellness-based services. We need to begin today to evaluate and redesign our primary care models and approaches.
James J. Bleicher, MD, President and CEO of Verde Valley Medical Center (VVMC) in Cottonwood, Ariz., is the 2012 winner of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Shirley Ann Munroe Leadership Award. The award recognizes the accomplishments of small or rural hospital leaders who have improved…