Fresh Wisdom For These Times From Don Berwick

Fresh Wisdom For These Times From Don Berwick

by | Dec 15, 2020 | Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Crossing the Quality Chasm, Dialog Across the Divide, Don Berwick, Economic inequality, Era 3: the moral era, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Hands Across the Hills, Hopes in the Future for a Bipartisan Healthcare Process, Inequality in Healthcare, Polarization in America, Social Determinants of Health, the difficulties of change, The Triple Aim

  I don’t really remember when I first met Don Berwick. He joined Harvard Community Health Plan in the late seventies as a pediatrician. I began my career there a few years earlier in 1975 right out of my training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital before it...
Contemplating The The Future of Healthcare Outcomes and of Healthcare Disparities In A Second Trump Term

Contemplating The The Future of Healthcare Outcomes and of Healthcare Disparities In A Second Trump Term

by | Sep 1, 2020 | Covid-19, Elizabeth McGlynn, Featured Post, Health Care Policy in the Wake of COVID-19, Healthcare Outcomes, Poverty and healthcare, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health, Sustainability, The 2020 election

  The conventions are over, and the election lies 63 days, nine short weeks, into the future. It did not take President Trump long to hit the campaign trial. He landed at the Manchester Airport less than twenty four hours after desecrating the South Lawn of the...
Primary Care and Rural Health Systems Are Victims of COVID-19. What’s Next For Them?

Primary Care and Rural Health Systems Are Victims of COVID-19. What’s Next For Them?

by | Jul 28, 2020 | Atrius Health, Build Back Better, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Fee for service payment, Future of Heathcare, Guthrie Clinic, Healthcare in Rural America, Inequality in Healthcare, Polarization in America, Public Health, Skepticism about the COVID-19 Vaccine, telehealth, The 2020 elections, The World After COVID-19

  I was on a socially distanced walk with my seventeen year old granddaughter this week, and we were talking about how quickly and unexpectedly life has changed. She and her parents usually come every summer for a quick visit. They fly into Logan Airport on a...
A Week Of Loss, A Time For Remembrance And Dedication

A Week Of Loss, A Time For Remembrance And Dedication

by | Jul 21, 2020 | C.T. Vivian, Donald Trump's Reaction to Demonstrations, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Inequality, Inequality in Healthcare, John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr, Non Violence, public Demonstrations Against Racism and Police Brutality, Racial Inequality, Racism in America, Social Determinants of Health

  In the week immediately following their deaths on the same day, it would be hard to write a post in the age of Black Lives Matter and our increasing awareness of the role of white privilege and economic inequality in the persistence of healthcare disparities...
The Future of Care As Seen Through the Lens of The COVID-19 Pandemic

The Future of Care As Seen Through the Lens of The COVID-19 Pandemic

by | Jul 14, 2020 | Boston Medical Center, Don Berwick, Featured Post, Future of Heathcare, Guthrie Clinic, Inequality in Healthcare, Poverty and healthcare, The Triple Aim, The World After COVID-19, Universal Access

  My wife and I were recently watching the PBS program “The Vote” when it occurred to me how long it takes to achieve social change. The story of Women’s Suffrage is an international saga that really spans a few thousand years. It was not until 2015 when Suadi...