The Me/We Ratio
Fellow professional speaker and good friend, Donald Cooper, makes this excellent point in his December newsletter: “In many conversations with business owners and their teams…
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A Path to Accountable Care
Harold Miller, Executive Director, Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform, talks about the changes that hospitals will face during the transition to new payment…
Book Review: How Companies Win
Sneak Peek: JHC Editor Mark Thill reviews the book “How Companies Win” in the December issue of JHC. For McDonald’s, the recipe for success for…
Traditions, Culture, and Life Lessons from Dr. Seuss
What? It’s the last month of the year already! What happened to 2011? When I was a kid I’d snicker when I heard adults talk…
CMS creates a new Innovation Advisor program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced this fall a new program with a little more “personal” feel toward accountable care. The Innovation Advisors program…
Culture Transformation for Thriving in Permanent White Water
I was just talking with a CEO Client about the development work we’ve been doing with his team. This led to a discussion about the…
ACOs in the News: Aetna enters accountable care collaboration with Banner Health
Aetna enters accountable care collaboration with Banner Health, introduces Aetna Whole Health Aetna Inc (Hartford, CT) announced an accountable care collaboration with Banner Health (Phoenix,…
Building Better Patient Relationships
The November, 2011 Harvard Business Review, “How I Did It” section contains an interesting and thought provoking article that, in my opinion, all healthcare leaders…
Management Teams Often Handicap Themselves
I was doing an assessment and planning retreat with one of the divisions of a large multinational company. The team was bitter about the limitations…
Meaningful participation in governance
By Richard Cowart CMS has reignited interest in ACOs by issuing regulations that considered industry comments and reduced the burdens and costs of participating in…