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Organizational Health Care with N2Growth: When was your Last Check-up?

N2Growth Blog

IT’S TIME TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR ORGANIZATION’S HEALTH! Schedule an appointment with your organization’s health care provider (you do have one right?) We’re providing some of our resources to help you and your health care provider (you do have one right?) WHERE CAN I GO FOR HEALTH SERVICES?

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The Power in Vulnerability

Great Leadership By Dan

This shift may have started in 2010 when Brené Brown, a sociological research professor, published The Gifts of Imperfection , and perhaps took off with her next book Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead in 2012. The message was clear. He currently lives in Morristown, NJ.

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Proving It Through your Actions – a Guest Post from Steve Farber

Kevin Eikenberry

He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. You still have until midnight December 14th to vote.

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The Costs of Racial Disparities in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

years in 2010, a disparity remains — largely from blacks’ higher death rates at younger ages from heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, as well as higher risks for HIV infection, homicide, and infant mortality. Promote a diverse health care workforce. Deliver patient-centered care. years in 1970 to 3.8

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Engaging Medical Specialists in Improving Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

It is critical to have physicians intimately involved in these efforts, yet hospitals and health systems struggle to engage them in improving care. Furthermore, much of the focus on health care redesign has been on primary care physicians, despite the fact that specialty care is responsible for the majority of health care spending.

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Constraints on Health Care Budgets Can Drive Quality

Harvard Business Review

In 1980, the national expenditure on health care in the United States was just over 9% of Gross Domestic Product. According to data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, workers’ earnings rose by 47% from 1999 to 2012, but their contribution to health insurance premiums during that time went up by 180%.

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Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office

Harvard Business Review

Many health care organizations today are striving to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and to be rewarded for accomplishing both. Leading Change in Health Care. The office then conducted a pilot project in which patients used a mobile application to complete the HOOS JR and KOOS JR surveys.