LEWISTON -- There's good news buried in the U.S. health care system's web of unfairness and inefficiency, argues best-selling health care writer T.R. Reid. Some medical communities are trying hard to cut the cost of health care. And it's working, Reid told a Bates College audience Wednesday.
Although he may not welcome any comparison with a self-professed socialist from north of the border, President Obama should feel proud to have a good deal in common with Canada's Tommy Douglas when it comes to the issue of health care. Douglas, as Americans may or may not know, served from 1935 through the early 1960s as a representative in Canada's federal parliament and as a premier for the province of Saskatchewan. In 2004 -- almost two decades after his death at age 81 -- he was named in a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. poll as "the greatest Canadian of them all," topping a list that included Wayne Gretsky, Alexander Graham Bell and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The reason? Douglas was a lifelong champion of the underdog and Canada's "Father of Medicare," the system of publicly funded, unive...
Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Crystal City and Mercy Health announced on May 9 that the two organizations have entered into exclusive negotiations for a potential transition of Jefferson Regional into Mercy. Mercy is the eighth largest Catholic health care system in the U.S., with 31 hospitals and more than 200 outpatient facilities, including a 979-bed hospital in St. Louis County, a 187-bed hospital in Washington, and Mercy Clinic, a 460-member multi-specialty physician organization.
The problems of the US health care system in terms of rising costs, uneven quality of service, and limited accessibility are well known. Medical costs are high, and they continue to rise rapidly. In addition to high and rising costs for health care overall in this country, there is a wide variation in quality and costs of medical services across geographical areas. The recent health care leader forum focused on how to improve the US health care system from a "value chain" perspective. In her keynote address to the conference, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg, University of Virginia, observed that different actors in the current health care system are competing to shift costs and increase their bargaining power; many of them are also reducing their costs by restricting services rather than by ...
PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An estimated one in seven children in California has a special health care need, yet the state ranked worst in the nation on a composite index that measures whether these children have adequate health insurance, receive basic preventive care, and receive medical care that is comprehensive, ongoing and family-centered, according to a study released today. Children with special health care needs are those who have a chronic condition that requires health care beyond what is needed by most children. Conditions may range from mild, manageable asthma to highly complex conditions such as cerebral palsy or heart disease.
WASHINGTON, June 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Saint Barnabas Corporation, the largest health care system in New Jersey and second largest employer in the state, has agreed to pay the United States $265 million to settle allegations that it defrauded the federal Medicare program, the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey announced today. The settlement resolves allegations that the Saint Barnabas Corporation, and nine of the hospitals that it has operated, fraudulently increased charges to Medicare patients in order to obtain enhanced reimbursement from Medicare. In addition to its standard payment system, Medicare pays supplemental reimbursement to hospitals and other health care providers in cases where the cost of care is unusually high. These cases are known as "outliers...
Andrea Schmid-Mazzoccoli, chief nurse executive and senior vice president for the Center for Clinical Excellence for Bon Secours Health System, in Marriottsville, has been named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow for 2011. Schmid- Mazzocoli is among 21 nurse leaders from across the country chosen to participate in the three-year leadership development program designed to enhance nurse leaders' effectiveness in improving the U.S. health care system. She joined BSHSI in 2007 as vice president of nursing and chief nursing officer. Schmid-Mazzoccoli facilitates the health system's Nursing Leadership Collaborative to set the strategic nursing agenda for the system and helped create a Center for Clinical Excellence. She previously was vice president for patient care servi...
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