Communication and collaboration are the key to halting hospital deserts
Originally published in Becker’s Hospital Review By Kenneth T. Hertz Many have likely heard about hospital deserts, those patches of mostly rural America where the…
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The path forward for struggling nursing homes
Originally published in McKnight’s By Patrick McCormick A convergence of market pressures is bearing down on the nursing home industry. Changing demographics, old infrastructure, new…
Consolidation is hurting hospitals’ supply costs, not helping them
Originally published in STAT By Rob Austin When health systems merge, one of the goals is to gain economies of scale, lowering costs through the bargaining…
For U.S. senior care facilities, preparing as best as you can is the best merger plan
Originally published in Fierce Healthcare By Patrick McCormick Consolidation tremors rumbling among the nation’s senior care facilities are forcing the industry’s CEOs to ponder how…
Hospitals already have the key tool needed to reach zero healthcare-associated infections
Originally published in Fierce Healthcare By Brita Hansen The medical world has declared zero tolerance for healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), but it is a massive problem…
Expensive medical airlifts will become more common and our leaders must do more to contain the cost
Originally published in the Dallas Morning News By Tony Colarossi As our health care industry undergoes a period of disruption, regional hospitals are closing or…
For assisted living communities, change is coming, but there still is time to adapt
Originally published in McKnight’s By Patrick McCormick The halcyon days of assisted living communities resembling comfy hotels and providing little more than social and residential…
How Technology is Transforming Value-Based Care
Originally published in Radiology Today By Peter Lafferty, MD As the radiology industry consolidates and the health care world moves to a value-based model, radiology…
Hospitals can save money on drugs without Washington’s help
Originally published in STAT By Patrick Yoder Hospitals could make great strides in reducing the cost of delivering health care — particularly when it comes…
How SNFs are cutting costs without cutting back on care
Originally published in McKnight’s By Betsy Rust As if managing the health of patients wasn’t difficult and time-consuming enough, skilled nursing facilities now have to…