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Based on published articles and verbal communications with C-Suite teams, it appears that a significant number of hospitals and health care systems are either in or headed to a performance crisis. The leadership teams and the members of their board are often lacking a clear understanding of the roadmap to stability. Clearly, if successful turnarounds and adequate response to today's changing ...
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Two of our recently posted blogs – “I Have a Dream: Acute Care Hospitals May No Longer Be Necessary” and “Where Have All the Volumes Gone?” strongly suggested that the acute care hospital, as we presently know it, will look significantly different in the future. Envisioning the attributes of this “future state” will assist healthcare leaders in developing ...
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In June of 2011, I penned a blog entitled…. A Common Question: Where Are Inpatient Volumes Going? I began by stating that this question was being asked by a myriad of healthcare audiences – leaders in the C-Suite, physicians, pharmaceutical companies, revenue cycle experts, insurers, supply chain companies, and investors. At that time I predicted inpatient volumes would decline 2% to ...
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For many years I have had a dream – wouldn’t it be wonderful if new technologies and excellent disease management would permit medical care to be delivered outside our traditional hospital walls! What a legacy we would all share if in some small way each of us could say we contributed to their closures, like our colleagues in the past did with TB Sanitariums, Polio Hospitals, and large ...
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As was discussed in Blog I in this series, enhanced physician integration is essential for the future success of any hospital or health system in existence today. In addition, Blog II articulated both the historical and present reasons why this integration is so hard to achieve. Because integration is both essential and hard to achieve, we must answer the question – What are the key ...
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