Articles
Care Delivery, Quality & Patient Safety, Strategic Planning
Too old for the childrens hospital?
Trustee talking points
- Three percent of patients admitted to children’s hospitals are at least 18 years old, and trends indicate that their numbers will only grow.
- As these children with once-fatal diagnoses such as congenital heart disease survive well into adulthood, a treatment conundrum has developed: Should the patients be treated in pediatric or in adult hospitals?
- Improvement in medical care for young adults with cancer also has been an emerging focus, as 15- to 39-year-olds represent 5 percent of all diagnoses, six times as many a
Operational Excellence, Supply chain management
Board Dashboards Deliver Vital Stats
Snapshot
The dashboard is a quick, comprehensive way to keep trustees informed on hospital performance. But don’t neglect to update it as care and payment models change.
Board members who stick with the status quo and allow their dashboards to ossify risk missing the sorts of metrics that will help their hospitals to thrive amid the rapidly changing U.S. health system, according to hospital leaders and governance experts.
Governance Effectiveness
Pump Up Strategic Board Discussion
The strategic challenges for hospital systems have never been steeper, yet boards have not made any significant headway in boosting the amount of meeting time they devote to crucial discussion and debate, according to findings from the 2014 National Health Care Governance Survey.
Governance Effectiveness, Strategic Planning, Issues & Trends
Raising the Bar for Board Performance
Snapshot
For boards to lead their organizations to value-based care, they will need highly skilled, energized and diverse members. However, a new governance survey finds that they have some work to do in diversity, competencies and turnover.
Care Delivery, Patient and Family Education/Engagement, Quality & Patient Safety, Leveraging Technology
Lower-cost Ways to Strengthen Patient Engagement
Snapshot
By engaging patients with new services and technology, hospitals are heading off costly interventions and building loyalty.
As Lisa Michaelis discusses various life coaching and wellness services offered by Mosaic Life Care, it might be easy to forget that she works for a hospital system.