What Can Mr Rogers Teach Us About Population Health, Patient Centeredness, And Practice?

What Can Mr Rogers Teach Us About Population Health, Patient Centeredness, And Practice?

by | Dec 17, 2019 | A Wonderful Day In The Neighborhood, Burnout, Economic inequality, Featured Post, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partnership, Mr. Rogers, patient centered care, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, Tom Junod

  I am not a movie critic. This will be the first “review of a movie” that I have written. Many movies these days are not worth the time one must invest to watch them, but I can look back with great fondness on many movies. I connect some of them to important...
Healthcare Musings For 13 December 2019

Healthcare Musings For 13 December 2019

by | Dec 13, 2019 | Democratic control of the House, Featured Post, Health in America, Impeachment Hearings, Polarization in America, Population Health, Poverty and healthcare, selling plasma as income for the poor, Social Determinants of Health, The 2020 elections

  13 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   How Good Are Things? It Depends On Who You Are And Where You Live.   It’s hard to put the drama in Washington out of mind. If you have had the time, you may, like me, have spent many hours watching the House...
Healthcare Musings For 6 December 2019

Healthcare Musings For 6 December 2019

by | Dec 6, 2019 | a personal testimony, Activism in Healthcare, Community Health Workers., Community Needs Assessments, Dartmouth Hitchcock Health, Featured Post, Kearsarge Neighborhood Partnership, Partners For Community Wellness, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, The Second Mountain: The Quest For a Moral Life

  6 December 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Grass Root Efforts To Address The Social Determinants of Health: Introduction To Partners For Community Wellness   David Brooks’ recent best seller, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life was an...
Hawaii’s Primary Care Crisis

Hawaii’s Primary Care Crisis

by | Nov 12, 2019 | Hawaii's Doctor Shortage, healthcare for the rural and urban poor, Primary Care Challenges, Social Determinants of Health, The Challenges to Be Met If We to Have Universal Coverage, The Triple Aim, Workforce Shortages in Healthcare

  Whenever I travel, I like to look around to assess what it might be like to give care or receive care in the places that I visit. As I write this post, I am flying home from eleven days in Hawaii, where unlike most of the tourists, I was checking out where...
Healthcare Musings For 11 October 2019

Healthcare Musings For 11 October 2019

by | Oct 11, 2019 | 2020 Presidential Debates, ACA, Administrative Burden, Featured Post, Healthcare as a Right, Inequality in Healthcare, Medicare For All, Population Health, Social Determinants of Health, Universal Access, Value Based Reimbursement

11 October 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   Where Would You Start?   When I listen to politicians talk, at least the ones running for president, the health care problems they are interested in solving are mostly limited to how we achieve universal access and...
Cosgrove and Shore on Expanding Boundaries and Leading Change 

Cosgrove and Shore on Expanding Boundaries and Leading Change 

by | Oct 1, 2019 | ATLAS conference, David Shore, Dean Robert Ebert, Featured Post, Healthcare Transformation, Inequality in Healthcare, Kearsage Regional Ecumenical Ministries, Lean, Six Domains of Quality, Social Determinants of Health, Stein's Law, Toby Cosgrove

  Last Friday’s Healthcare Musings began: At four o’clock on Tuesday afternoon I was sitting at a table in the ballroom of the Boston Seaport Hotel at the 6th ATLAS (Annual Thought Leadership Symposium). This year’s conference title was “Expanding Boundaries....