Partners In the Mission
Don Berwick’s Five Principles
1. Put patients first;
2. Put the poor and disadvantaged first;
3. Start at scale.
4. Return the money—ensure that employers, states, and taxpayers see their health costs fall; and
5. Act locally.
This would be nice - especially #2.
(Source: advisory.com)
Hospital Chaplains Seek Bigger Roles on Patient Medical Teams - WSJ.com
Additional discussion on the importance of chaplains to patient care teams.
Life Lives
The cat on the windowsill
An infant at the breast
The deer in the forest
Grandma in her wheelchair
Life lives where it will
Enlivening flesh
Captured in matter
And when cancer consumes
And the car crashes
Or a heart explodes
Life lives.
No I
No you
No we
Just Life released
Life unbounded
And All become One
Paul Marceau
1943-2011
42% of self-described “sicker” American adults had cost-related access problems in the last year. The problems included not visiting a doctor, not filling a prescription, skipping doses of medication or not getting recommended care.
Identifying barriers to access is, hopefully, the first step to removing them.
Costs prompting sicker patients to avoid medical care - Nov. 21, 2011 — American Medical News
We’re not here to put corporations down,” Sister Nora said, between bites of broccoli salad. “We’re here to improve their sense of responsibility.
A great article about Franciscian sisters with a mission to promote corporate responsibility.
(Source: The New York Times)
