The issue is the function, patient care, not the location in which care is delivered.
Category: Impending Death of Hospitals
The healthcare world was supposedly abuzz when the New England Journal of Medicine published the report of a study that shows that consolidation in the hospital industry doesn’t lead to higher patient satisfaction or to higher quality. Podcast: Play in new window | Download
The healthcare world was supposedly abuzz last week when the New England Journal of Medicine published (on Jan 2, 2020) the report of a study that shows that consolidation in the hospital industry doesn’t lead to higher patient satisfaction or to higher quality.
Ride along with Mark as he talks about conquering the fear of branching out, a disease that plagues too many medical group leaders.
We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.
Another week, another hospital closes. Well, at least one.
We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.
An anesthesiologist, commenting on my theme that inpatient care is becoming outpatient care and that the center of outpatient care isn’t the hospital but the freestanding facility, in his case the ASC, told me that I was missing an element in the analysis.
Back in October, 2020, I wrote, in a post called City Loses Hospitals Like We Lose Our Keys…
We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.
Evolutionary psychologists say that the reason we see a stick on the trail ahead of us as a snake is that it’s far better for our survival to see sticks as snakes than snakes as sticks.
