After building a global reputation for providing complex, specialized care, the health system is building a care model that is designed to better meet the needs of the communities it serves.
NCH Healthcare System has generated several benefits from disease prevention and wellness programs with its employees, including $27 million in health plan savings.
Call to action features respecting self-determination in the home setting, promoting safety culture, fostering learning and improvement, overhauling care coordination, and payment model reform.
Housing is increasingly considered as an essential element of health, and healthcare organizations could do more to improve housing with government incentives and financial support from Medicare and Medicaid.
Compared to a control group of patients, acute heart failure patients in an emergency department's clinical pathway program had a 13.1% lower readmission rate.
Uncertainty plays a key role in wasteful healthcare decisions such as ordering unnecessary medical tests, and hospitalists can help address the problem in their role as educators.
