4 June 2019: Improving the Health of the Nation Through The Green New Deal

4 June 2019: Improving the Health of the Nation Through The Green New Deal

Sometimes it feels to me like there are too many balls in the air. Back when I was practicing medicine, a time that is quickly fading from view as I try to use the rearview mirror of memory, I would categorize my colleagues by the way they approached problems as...
Leadership In A Community of Practice

Leadership In A Community of Practice

One big benefit of being a part of “community” is to be the recipient of the concern of others when something does not go as expected. I know that many faithful readers were scratching their heads wondering what might have happened when by 3:30 last Friday they had...
Healthcare Musings  for 24-May-2019

Healthcare Musings for 24-May-2019

24 May 2019 Dear Interested Readers,   The Cost of Care, Workforce Shortages and the Need For Innovation   The title of the Strategy Healthcare post earlier this week, “Maybe We Should Look For More Healthcare Professionals at Dunkin Donuts” may have sounded...
Maybe We Should Look For More Healthcare Professionals At Dunkin’ Donuts

Maybe We Should Look For More Healthcare Professionals At Dunkin’ Donuts

It’s been my contention for several years that workforce issues will ultimately displace concerns about revenue and finance as the number one focus of healthcare boards and managers. I think that time has come. Across the country, providers of care in small town and...
What Does The Plight of the Homeless Say About the Rest of Us?

What Does The Plight of the Homeless Say About the Rest of Us?

I took the picture that heads up this post on a walk this week in Albuquerque. I was there to visit my son and his wife. They moved to Albuquerque in 2007. For my daughter-in-law it was a return to her hometown. Both of her parents had been teachers in the Albuquerque...