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When he lived in Tokyo, Bill Starr became familiar with working through an earthquake.
“If it got bad enough, you’d climb under the table and then get back up and finish your meeting,” he said.
Federal and State governments, private purchasers, physicians, nurses, insurers, labor unions, health plans, hospitals, accreditation organizations, and others have begun to address some of the significant quality problems in the United States health care system. One approach they have taken is to improve the ability to measure and report on the quality of care being delivered. The reporting of quality measures prompts a closer look at provider or health plan practices both as feedback for clinicians or as publicly available scorecards for consumers and purchasers to evaluate. Several of these endeavors have led to improvements in the quality of care and in the health outcomes for consumers, while often saving costs. Among these are:
A team that includes subject-matter experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the California Department of Public Health, Los Angeles Department of Public Works and the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services conduct a final inspection of work of Alternate Care Facility #2 at Mission Community Hospital, in Panorama City, California, April 22, as part of FEMA’s support to California in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A team that includes subject-matter experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the California Department of Public Health, Los Angeles Department of Public Works and the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services conduct a final inspection of work of Alternate Care Facility #2 at Mission Community Hospital, in Panorama City, California, April 22, as part of FEMA’s support to California in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
California hospital leaders seek legislative reprieve for industry broken by COVID-19
Sacramento Bee 4/30/2021 Cathie Anderson, The Sacramento Bee
Apr. 30 The COVID-19 pandemic has left a majority of California s hospitals financially challenged, unstable and in some cases, broken, while proposed and existing state regulations are pushing them further over the brink, said the CEO of California s top hospital trade group.
Speaking to media in a conference call Wednesday, Carmela Coyle of the California Hospital Association said 58% of the state s hospitals operated in the red in 2020, up from 40% a year earlier, according to a financial analysis released by health-care management consultant Kaufman Hall. Coyle cited statistics but also asked hospital chiefs from El Centro Regional Medical Center in Imperial County, Enloe Medical Center in Chico and UC San Diego Health to join the call and report on how the challenges of the past year affected each of their