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Cathy Thomas Hess, RN, a clinical wound care expert, founded Wound Care Strategies in 1995 as a healthcare business consulting company. Now called Well Care Strategies, the company has expanded to locations in three states, offers its own electronic medical record software system and has evolved into a new business model: In 2010, the company became a benefit corporation.
Across the nation, healthcare organizations are discovering that collaborative care transcends the medical discipline. Patients often experience “upstream” legal problems that can later adversely affect their health. That’s why there’s a dramatic increase in the number of medical-legal partnerships (MLPs), where legal professionals work closely with providers to identify and resolve these issues.
BALTIMORE – While legislators and judges in Washington D.C. work to either eviscerate or preserve the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, two men in Maryland – one a serial entrepreneur and the other a physician and respected public health official – work diligently to create a new model for healthcare delivery and insurance, a self-described “audacious attempt to create systemic change.”
By now, the nine justices of the Supreme Court know the fate of the Affordable Care Act and the individual mandate and are actively writing drafts of the decision, which most expect will be handed down in late June.
Kaiser Permanente’s first ever hospital design challenge, Small Hospital, Big Idea, came to a surprise ending in March: a tie.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced late last week a delay to the implementation of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. CMS will not require data collection from manufacturers and group purchasing organizations until Jan. 1, 2013.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to develop verification data and services to support coverage and eligibility infrastructure for health insurance exchanges and seeks industry information about applications that are available.
A recently released interdisciplinary study revealed that very low birth weight infants fare better in hospitals that have earned Recognition for Nursing Excellence (RNE) and are designated Magnet Hospitals by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
While most states are waiting for the Supreme Court to decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act, two states – Vermont and Minnesota – are already harnessing it to both establish health insurance exchanges and to drive healthcare delivery and payment reforms.
In the latest salvo against the Affordable Care Act, Ways and Means Committee Republicans published a report this week that contends employers would save money by dropping coverage for employees and shifting them to the state health insurance exchanges and paying the $2,000 per employee penalty for doing so.