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Skating To Where the Puck Will Be In Healthcare
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. – Wayne Gretzky Recently, I attended an end-of-year review with one of our hospital partner’s executive team. We reviewed our performance for the past year, and discussed mutually strategic goals and how to improve […]
Read ArticleWhat is observation care? Clearing up common misperceptions
To treat observation care as simply a loophole that allows hospitals to avoid the Medicare penalties from readmissions — as Brad Wright, an assistant professor of health management and policy at the University of Iowa did earlier this month on KevinMD.com — is to take a short-sighted approach to a complex health issue. Observation care in […]
Read ArticleLeadership in the ED: Being a Floor General for Your Team
In sports, the most successful athletes are not necessarily those that have had the best individual statistics, but are those that have managed to make their teammates better around them: Magic Johnson, Isaiah Thomas, or to use a hot new name – Jeremy Lin. These athletes epitomize selfless leadership on the court. While their own […]
Read ArticleAmerica’s Healthcare System Needs a Social Contract
As a citizen it’s easy to clamor for rights. It’s much harder to live up to our responsibilities. And so it is in health care. As citizens we have implicitly agreed to abide by a social contract, which means a person’s moral and political obligations are dependent on an agreement among them to form the […]
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