How work-arounds happen
About two weeks ago, I wrote to the mayor of our community:It has been widely noticed that when the city employees pick up the trash at Weeks Field [a 9-acre playing field], they combine the trash from the recycling bins with the regular trash into the City truck. I imagine if they do it here, they do the same at other city parks and fields.Would you please look into this and have them change their practice so they can be supportive of the City's recycling program?I was concerned because hundreds of people per week use this field for athletic purposes and carefully place lots of plastic containers in the recycling b...
Source: Running a hospital - October 7, 2013 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Where you stand depends on where you sit
I know from personal interactions that the CEO of Steward Health Care System has an excellent sense of humor. But he certainly cannot have meant to be funny when he appeared at the state health cost trends hearings hosted last week by the state Health Policy Commission and appealed to the state to enact more health cost containment legislation that would further limit prices for higher-cost doctors and hospitals. Julie Donnelly at the Boston Business Journal summarized:The demand for additional regulation is somewhat unusual given that de la Torre is the CEO of one of the few for-profit health systems in t...
Source: Running a hospital - October 6, 2013 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Runs in the family
Atul Gawande is not the only superb writer in his family. His daughter Hattie recently took to the public forum of our community to newspaper to support the establishment of a nine-unit home for formerly homeless adults in an old fire station in her section of town. Her article was beautifully constructed and written. Like her father, Hattie sets forth a principled position. This one is on an issue in which our City's mayor has ducked and weaved and made himself invisible, when there was an outcry of opposition from a small number of neighbors.I can't find a link yet to her guest column in the Newto...
Source: Running a hospital - October 6, 2013 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
What's a synonym for hypocrite?
Randy Neugebauer.Watch this clip from NBC, where the Congressman from Texas berates a Park Ranger who--because of the federal government shutdown--has been directed to prohibit people's entry to the World War II memorial in Washington, DC.var nbcLP={};nbcLP.aRandomNumber=Math.floor(Math.random()*10000);nbcLP.currentPageLoc=encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);nbcLP.currentSiteLoc=encodeURIComponent(window.location.host);nbcLP.defaultWidth=652;nbcLP.defaultHeight=367;nbcLP.cmsID="226192661";nbcLP.vidPid="Bch7jT9IrcRo";nbcLP.vidSec="news";nbcLP.vidSubSec="local";nbcLP.vidFrame=document.getElementById("nbcLP226192661");nb...
Source: Running a hospital - October 5, 2013 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Staffing Models for Primary Care on WIHI
Madge Kaplan writes:The next WIHI broadcast — New Staffing Models for Primary Care — will take place on Thursday, October 10, from 2 to 3 PM ET, and I hope you'll tune in.Our guests will include:Ed Wagner, MD, MPH, MACP, Director Emeritus, MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation, Group Health Research Institute Trissa Torres, MD, MSPH, FACPM, Senior Vice President, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Kirsten Meisinger, MD, Medical Director, Union Square Family Health Center, Cambridge Health Alliance Thad Schilling, MD, Medical Director, Patient-Centered Medical Home, Harvard Vanguard M...
Source: Running a hospital - October 3, 2013 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
