April 02, 2015 Why More Health Coverage Does Not Necessarily Mean Less Uncompensated Care Many Americans have trouble paying deductibles less formidable than those offered by the marketplace’s popular silver plans. As a result, many Americans who finally have health coverage are nevertheless in for sticker shock if they get sick.
March 13, 2015 PA History Shows the Wisdom of SB 4 and Nonprofit Tax Exemptions Nonprofit tax exemptions and Senate Bill 4, which calls for a change to the Pennsylvania constitution, have prompted much discussion, including some misleading claims and assertions.
January 22, 2015 Treat Me Like a Person Not a Number—The Total Patient Experience is What Matters Health care leaders, some more reluctantly than others, are joining a growing national conversation about treating patients as consumers. To be direct, they are facing the fact that the hospital community is not very consumer-friendly when it comes to the total patient experience.
August 15, 2014 Brave Hospitals HAP recently stepped out of its comfort zone, and took a journey in to unchartered territory when we adopted our new strategic plan. The plan is different, bold, and I believe, brave as well.
May 09, 2014 Keys to Successful Hospital-Community Health Center Partnerships The new world of health care into which we have all been thrust is forcing providers across the continuum to learn how to better work with one another. The incentives aren’t yet totally aligned, but are moving in the right direction. Hospitals and community health centers, both critical resources in the community, need to move in the right direction as well.
April 02, 2014 Death, Taxes, and End-of-Life Care Death is certain but how we die and how we live until we die is a path determined by many decisions as well as many things beyond our control.