Lola Butcher
This is the kind of remark that gets my attention:
Throughout the country, I’m seeing more and more reports where you have people checking into hospitals, into clinics, and so forth, and they are posing as the individual who owns this particular social security number and/or insurance policy, and they’re either getting medical […]
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Almost 25 years ago, I recall reading an article with the title “The Hospital: Is it a Place or a Thing?”. The author argued that hospitals and health care in general had espoused the “place” option, concentrating in urban “pill hills” and focusing their investments on building facilities of eminence and technology. This […]
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The impending shortage of physicians, particularly primary care specialists such as family practitioners, internists, pediatricians and geriatricians, has been shouted about by medical professionals as well as health care gurus of many stripes. It has been used as a reason to criticize concierge practices, despite their affecting only about 1/1000th of all physicians […]
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Eleven years ago our hospital was confronted with what seemed to be an overwhelming situation. We had a rotating door as employees came to our medical center, finished their certifications and left to work for the three hospitals near us that had higher pay scales.
Employee morale was very low and the employee […]
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David Lawrence, former CEO, and chairman of the boards of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, speaking yesterday at the Estes Park Conference in Wailea, Maui asks:
Are incremental assumptions about the future of health care plausible?
This question is especially acute when it comes to planning a hospital which could take […]
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Fred Fortin’s posting on this subject on Jan 28 described how Leland Kaiser at the Center for Health Design described the “place” challenges facing hospitals as centers for transformation and healing. But it is an unfortunate reality of hospitals and the Center, itself, that they are both overly concerned about hospitals as […]
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Wailea, Maui - I’m attending an Estes Park Institute conference listening to a short presentation by Leland Kaiser, a Senior Fellow at the Institute, talk about “evidenced-based environmental design” a new, emerging perspective when it comes to hospitals and their healing potential. Besides hospital design being functional and aesthetic, he argues […]
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From a China Digital Times post translated from the China News Service:
China’s Ministry of Health and Chinese Medicine Administration have jointly issued a regulation that aims to set up a evaluation system to tally the medical ethics of doctors in various hospitals and other health care providers in the country. There are […]
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