Newsletter No. 3

These are a few of the interesting articles that have caught my attention recently. Market for outpatient health care facilities stays strong for now | Health Facilities Management Survey shows continuing development of medical office buildings and other outpatient facilities …

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An Unacceptable Risk

Modern medical science has taken on numerous diseases and health risks in the last century, from polio to smoking to HIV/AIDS, and we in the U.S. typically assume that no problem is too great if we apply ourselves to it …

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Person-Centered Care

The terms Patient-Centered Care and Person-Centered Care have been used a great deal in recent years to describe a fundamental shift away from care based on the needs of the provider. I’ve seen many definitions of these terms along the …

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Collaboration for Community Health

The much talked about management of population health is an important requirement of the Affordable Care Act. Since the healthcare system today is more and more focused on chronic conditions as opposed to acute care, and since the ability to …

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What’s a Medical Home?

There has been a lot of discussion about the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model of healthcare as a way of transforming how care is delivered. In this model, a personal physician leads a team of caregivers that has the necessary …

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