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Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending June 6, 2014.
A new study provides even more evidence that physician leadership is the key to success with accountable care organizations. Strong focus on patient needs is a key driver of success, but physician-led ACOs typically struggle with the care coordination piece.
Ugly stories about waiting lists and poor care in VA facilities are coming out in the press. But in truth, there is not enough information to say whether the VA system is worse or better than the private system as a whole, or even to compare the VA with individual private sector hospitals.
Hospitals in Georgia have struggled financially in recent years, as uncompensated care costs rose after the recession and the state rejected Medicaid expansion. But one standalone facility decided that affiliation and clinical integration might be the right path to stave off closure.
Patient satisfaction surveys suggest patients are unsatisfied and hospitals must do more to engage them. New technologies and techniques can help organizations find new ways to involve patients in their care and connect them with their caregivers.
One third of Pennsylvania's hospitals had negative operating margins in the 2013 fiscal year, according to the Pennsylvania Healthcare Cost Containment Council, an independent state agency. The crisis is forcing health systems to rethink organizational mergers and management.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending May 30, 2014.
As the Department of Veterans' Affairs scandal grows, scrutiny of wait times at civilian hospitals and clinics is bound to as well. Health systems might start reviewing their own access metrics.
Back in January, U.S. hospitals began to experience a serious shortage of intravenous saline solutions, caused mainly by a spike in demand during the beginning of the 2013 flu season. Fast forward to May, and hospitals are still struggling with the shortage.
New research suggests that accountable care organizations should make payments to patient-centered medical homes or take other steps to support them financially, since their goals are similarly transformative.