Hospitals & Health Systems
Health Systems' Ferocious Challenges
07/22/08
America's health systems are facing an increasingly hostile marketplace. Keeping our hospitals intact will require changes in how we treat them and how they manage themselves.
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Health Care Quote of the Year
12/21/07
If Grady Fails
11/28/07
The first cracks in American health care's stability can seen most clearly in our safety net health systems, like Atlanta's Grady Hospital, where years of neglect, underfunding and demand have demoralized and overwhelmed that system's capacity.
Not Paying For Preventable Errors: A Big Step
08/20/07
On October 1, 2008, Medicare will change decades of policy and stop paying health systems for errors that were preventable. After Medicare took the lead, the major commercial health plans and many Medicaid plans followed, significantly raising the quality bar for hospitals and health systems.
Consultants to Hospitals: Prepare for Transparency
08/16/07
Very progressive health systems like Louisville Norton Healthcare have improved their performance by making it transparent to consumers and, equally important, to their staffs. Now a consulting group advises hospitals that the way of the future is to follow Norton's example.
