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Not Running a Hospital: Dear CMS, price matters
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Not Running a Hospital. This is a blog by a former CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about negotiation theory and practice, leadership training and mentoring, and teaching. Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Dear CMS, price matters. Your government at work. Here's the pertinent quote from Melinda Beck's Wall Street Journal. Article on proton beam therapy. It's time for the government to have the spine and judgment to change its pricing for this therapy. As I have noted earlier. There is a separate a...
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Not Running a Hospital: In Washington State: It's not NICE, but it's good.
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Not Running a Hospital. This is a blog by a former CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about negotiation theory and practice, leadership training and mentoring, and teaching. Monday, May 18, 2015. In Washington State: It's not NICE, but it's good. Back in 2006, the state of Washington enacted a law creating the Washington State Health Technology Assessment Program. NICE), which performs similar functions for the National Health Service. The agency sets forth the following problem statement.
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Not Running a Hospital: When Good Teams Go Wrong
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Not Running a Hospital. This is a blog by a former CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about negotiation theory and practice, leadership training and mentoring, and teaching. Tuesday, August 11, 2015. When Good Teams Go Wrong. In a Harvard Business Review article. The employees at Nut Island had set up their own team without the direction and guidance of management, and it had become a priority among the group to avoid contact with upper management whenever possible. Indeed, they viewed ...
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Not Running a Hospital: Where would you rather serve?
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Not Running a Hospital. This is a blog by a former CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about negotiation theory and practice, leadership training and mentoring, and teaching. Monday, August 03, 2015. Where would you rather serve? Which is more hierarchical, the military or health care? A medical student who had served as a corpsman in the military attended our Telluride Patient Safety. Session last week. She noted her experience while on clinical rotations:. When the Navy goes to sea, they m...
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Not Running a Hospital: Sully inspires and presses for action
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Not Running a Hospital. This is a blog by a former CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about negotiation theory and practice, leadership training and mentoring, and teaching. Thursday, April 28, 2011. Sully inspires and presses for action. Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger was the guest of honor at a "Patient Safety Leadership Roundtable" hosted at MIT by a great group of people* from the Boston area. Many people know of Sully from the dramatic Hudson River emergency landing. When I sugge...
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Not Running a Hospital: These things happen
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Not Running a Hospital. This is a blog by a former CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about negotiation theory and practice, leadership training and mentoring, and teaching. Thursday, March 08, 2007. I was reminded of this by our Chief of Medicine. In the movie, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Ethel Merman, playing Mrs. Marcus, says:. Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'these things happen? We gotta have control of what happens to us.". Of your program. I have done that below. We all ke...
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Not Running a Hospital: A strong sense of purpose from "the bottom"
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Not Running a Hospital. This is a blog by a former CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about negotiation theory and practice, leadership training and mentoring, and teaching. Friday, May 22, 2015. A strong sense of purpose from "the bottom". Melanie Evans at Modern Healthcare. One of the nation's largest health systems, Ascension Health. Will for the first time set a system-wide minimum wage of $11 an hour.". Later in 2009, when the majority of people in the hospital made sacrifices. Thank y...
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Not Running a Hospital: When CEO bonuses are tied to US News rankings
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Not Running a Hospital. This is a blog by a former CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about negotiation theory and practice, leadership training and mentoring, and teaching. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. When CEO bonuses are tied to US News rankings. Here's a quiz. Can you guess who posted the following messages on Twitter? Any idea how many hospital execs' bonuses are tied to their institution's U.S. News rankings? He certainly knows that hospitals use the rankings in their marketing materials...
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Not Running a Hospital: The board has to be on board
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Not Running a Hospital. This is a blog by a former CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about negotiation theory and practice, leadership training and mentoring, and teaching. Monday, August 03, 2015. The board has to be on board. By Thomas C. Tsai, Ashish K. Jha, Atul A. Gawande, Robert S. Huckman, Nicholas Bloom, and Raffaella Sadun in Health Affairs. I reprint the abstract:. Similarly, we found that hospitals with boards that used clinical quality metrics more effectively had higher perfor...
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Not Running a Hospital: Silent sovereigns of the forest
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Not Running a Hospital. This is a blog by a former CEO of a large Boston hospital to share thoughts about negotiation theory and practice, leadership training and mentoring, and teaching. Saturday, August 01, 2015. Silent sovereigns of the forest. In Travels with Charley. John Steinbeck portrays the physical and emotional grandeur of the great West Coast trees:. Branch holes remained where limbs had been torn away by the volcano's force. Rock-hard age rings, likewise, show the years of growth. Great post...
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