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Improving Community Health through Hospital-Public Health Collaboration: Insights and Lessons Learned from Successful Partnerships
From the introduction:
Health care expenditures in the United States currently consume over 17 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product, a much larger share than other developed nations. Yet, despite this large investment, studies by Commonwealth Fund, the Institute of Medicine, and other organizations show the USA lags behind other developed nations on multiple metrics of population health such as infant mortality and life expectancy. Moreover, there is extensive evidence of disparities in access, cost, and quality of health care services.
Thus, we are confronted by a striking paradox: the USA spends a large and growing proportion of our ...Read More
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Governance in Large Nonprofit Health Systems: Current Profile and Emerging Patterns
From the foreword:
Nonprofit healthcare organizations are not exempt from good governance. In fact, more today than ever, the hospitals and health care systems of this country must have the discipline and commitment to organize their governance structures and practices to provide forward-thinking leadership and stand up to scrutiny from any type of evaluation and review. As we move from “sick care” organizations to “health care” organizations with accountability for the health of the population of our communities from birth to end-of-life, the role of governance becomes even more critical.
Fourteen of the largest and most notable health care systems ...Read More