Questions remain around a host of issues pertaining to health, notably reimbursement and ensuring that the models and systems implemented drive access and quality gains that justify costs. But few in healthcare would dispute that virtual health has earned a permanent place in care delivery following its swift ascent in 2020.
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Monica Puga, RN, recalls when value-based care was considered a passing trend. Rebecca Adkins remembers the days of a registered nurse using a spreadsheet to analyze data on a population of patients.
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Our collective mission to advance the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve simply doesn’t happen or move forward without the workforce, an indispensable part of patient care and the engine that makes the entire healthcare system run.
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All healthcare leaders aspire to build and sustain ethically aligned organizations that engender trust with those they serve.
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Lessons from the Kahua Ola framework.
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Demand for primary care services in the U.S. is growing. The supply of service providers, however, is not. And, though the supply of advanced practice nurses is on the rise, the overall shortage of providers is likely to continue for the foreseeable future.
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An important truism in healthcare today is that change is the only constant. The external and internal environments are populated with new rules, regulations, devices and demands.
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The importance of philanthropy in healthcare continues to rise as organizations face challenges in securing adequate dollars to help them reinvest in their mission.
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For reasons of necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare quickly turned to telehealth. This mode of care increased 154% during the early stages of the pandemic and rapidly accelerated to levels 38 times higher than in 2019.
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Located in San Francisco’s legendary Chinatown neighborhood, the century-old Chinese Hospital faces both the unique financial and demographic challenges of serving its primarily Chinese patients as well as the same hurdles as all hospitals, especially independent ones in underserved areas.
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