This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patien...

December 18th, 2012
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A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

November 19th, 2012
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Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

November 15th, 2012
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A monograph from the Association of American Medical Colleges, in partnership with the Institute ...

November 9th, 2012
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Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

November 8th, 2012
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In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...

November 1st, 2012
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There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

October 1st, 2012
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Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

October 1st, 2012
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Authored by Kaufman Hall executives, this guide describes the groundwork and prerequisites requir...

September 1st, 2012
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“End of life care,” “serious illness” or “advanced illness” are some of the terms used to categor...

August 1st, 2012
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PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

August 1st, 2012
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The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

July 1st, 2012
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This chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of care th...

June 1st, 2012
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Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are forming in communities across the country. In ACOs, hea...

May 11th, 2012
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This guide provides hospital leaders with a snapshot of hospitals' current readiness to participa...

May 1st, 2012
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To meet patient needs in the current market, hospitals have traditionally focused their efforts o...

April 1st, 2012
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As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

March 1st, 2012
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This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...

March 1st, 2012
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Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...

February 1st, 2012
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Achieving health care equity and eliminating health care disparities are a top goal of hospitals ...

February 1st, 2012
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Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...

January 1st, 2012
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This toolkit provides a comprehensive approach to the collection of race, ethnicity and primary l...

January 1st, 2012
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