Help families finance adult autism housing
Here is a plea for action that came my way via autism advocate Cathy Boyle, who founded a wonderful organization called Autism Housing Pathways. I have edited a little bit for expedience:
****How do autism families figure out the financing for their adult child’s housing?****
While there are a number of programs aimed at providing financing for lower-income and first-time home buyers, families creating housing are largely treated — unfairly — as purchasers of vacation homes.
However, there is one mortgage product aimed at these families: Fannie Mae’s Community HomeChoice, a variant of Fannie MaeR...
Source: Susan's Blog - October 20, 2013 Category: Autism Authors: Susan Senator Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
HHS Issues 2014-2018 Draft Strategic Plan
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently published its draft of the Fiscal Year 2014-2018 Strategic plan. Every 4 years, HHS updates its strategic plan, which describes its work to address complex, multifaceted, and ever-evolving health and human service issues, including:
Health Care
Research and Innovation
Prevention and Wellness
An agency strategic plan is one of three main elements required by the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 (P.L. 103-62) and the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-352). An agency strategic plan defines its mission, goals, and t...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 14, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Where you stand depends on where you sit
I know from personal interactions that the CEO of Steward Health Care System has an excellent sense of humor. But he certainly cannot have meant to be funny when he appeared at the state health cost trends hearings hosted last week by the state Health Policy Commission and appealed to the state to enact more health cost containment legislation that would further limit prices for higher-cost doctors and hospitals. Julie Donnelly at the Boston Business Journal summarized:The demand for additional regulation is somewhat unusual given that de la Torre is the CEO of one of the few for-profit health systems in t...
Source: Running a hospital - October 6, 2013 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Up And Down The Ladder... Job Changes
Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone?
And here is our regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that Ra Pharmaceuticals hired Pamela Esposito as chief business officer. Most ...
Source: Pharmalot - October 4, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: esilverman Source Type: blogs
It’s all about the culture
Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence (HPOE) -With health care
reform on the horizon, in 2009, Mountain States Health Alliance
executives expanded their three-year strategic plan to a 10-year plan to
develop strategies to offset some of the impeding costs and budget cuts
of the Accountable Care Act. As part of the plan, advisors suggested
lean management as a solution. This case study reports on the
implementation of lean.
Case study
HPOE - case studies (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - October 3, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Leadership and leadership development NHS measurement and performance Source Type: blogs
Hospital strategic plans must go beyond the status quo
by Raymond Hino
Local groups and organizations often ask me to speak about anything new at the hospital. I am delighted to do it because our hospital is a major resource for our entire community and extremely important for the health and wellness of our population.
In each presentation I usually start by talking about the importance of having a strategic plan and the importance of following it through. In the case of our institution, our strategic plan is particularly relevant to the community that we serve because they helped to create it. By including the community in our strategic planning retreat, we have found that...
Source: hospital impact - September 27, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Wendy Johnson Source Type: blogs
An Interview with Kenda West – New COO at Voalte
Health information technology (health IT) improves health care efficiency, quality and safety. Many of these tools, however, are more cumbersome than helpful. Voalte is a game-changer in this respect—improving coordination and patient safety through one effective tool. DW sat down with Kenda West, Chief Operating Officer at Voalte, to talk about her career, how Voalte is positively disrupting the industry, and the advice she would like to offer to future Disruptive Women.
Tell us about your background and how you became interested in health information technology.
When I started my career, the field of health IT ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - September 23, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care HIT/Health Gaming Innovation Technology Source Type: blogs
HHS Strategic Plan for 2014-2018 is open for comment
Every four years, HHS updates its strategic plan, which describes its work to address complex, multifaceted, and ever-evolving health and human service issues. Follow this link to the draft and for more information about how to submit comments: http://go.usa.gov/Db4YGoal 1: Health Care - http://go.usa.gov/Db2jThis goal focuses on health insurance coverage, healthcare quality and safety, connecting primary and preventive care, healthcare costs, access to care, disparities, and health information technology.Goal 2: Research and Innovation - http://go.usa.gov/Db25This goal focuses on health, public health, and human services ...
Source: Pathology Informatics from the Trenches - September 11, 2013 Category: Pathologists Source Type: blogs
When the fishing is good but the catching is bad.
I personally always fished with worms, or occasionally newts - but I am no fisherman and my knowledge of this occupation is restricted to the things a young boy would gain by spending summers casting into the Hudson River more for a way to commune with friends than for the sport. Back then it never really mattered what we caught or even if we caught because the occupation was directed toward the social experience. Besides, there is nothing worse than having to get a river eel off of your line. Gross.Anyway, I was preparing a lecture and the concept of 'emerging practice area' ran across my radar screen.&n...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - September 7, 2013 Category: Occupational Therapists Tags: OT Education philosophy evidence-based practice OT practice Source Type: blogs
Job Post: Oncology Clinical Research Physician
Responsibilities
The Oncology Clinical Research Physician (CRP) will combine scientific and clinical expertise with his/her passion for helping cancer patients to make meaningful differences to the lives of many people. He/she helps create solutions for patients, health care professionals, and caregivers that have broad impact across the world.
He/She participates in the development, conduct and reporting of local clinical trials; the implementation of global clinical trials ; the reporting of adverse events as mandated by corporate patient safety; review process for protocols, study reports, publications and data ...
Source: Non-Clinical Physician Jobs, Careers, and Opportunities - September 3, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Joseph Kim, MD, MPH Source Type: blogs
Charting the Waters and Developing a Strategic Plan
This post was authored by Shal Jacobovitz, CEO of the ACC. The ACC is the premiere clinical medical professional society in cardiovascular medicine and operates under a strong and consistent mission of transforming cardiovascular care and improving heart health. The … Continue reading →The post Charting the Waters and Developing a Strategic Plan appeared first on ACC in Touch Blog. (Source: ACC in Touch Blog)
Source: ACC in Touch Blog - August 28, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Admin Tags: Special Topics guest post Leadership/Professionalism Source Type: blogs
CMS Requests Public Comments on the Potential Release of Medicare Physician Data
Back in late June ProPublica published the Medicare Part D data as part of a public request for information, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Now CMS is seeking comment, if in fact a release of physician level Medicare claims data is a good idea or not. Does the release of this data potentially violate a physician's right to privacy?
In late May of this year, we reported that a federal district court in Florida had vacated an injunction issued in 1979 that barred the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from disclosing certain Medicare payment claims data for physicians.
In 1978, the Departmen...
Source: Policy and Medicine - August 14, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
Quality care begins with appropriate care
by Gary S. Kaplan
When the Virginia Mason board of directors approved our innovative strategic plan in 2001, we knew our approach to healthcare was about to change for the better. Thus began our journey to transform healthcare by first transforming our organization.
As former Secretary of Treasury Paul O'Neill put it, we had embarked on a bold "bet the farm"strategy of pursuing quality and safety--something that differentiated Virginia Mason in a healthcare marketplace that seemed more focused on size and rapid expansion.
Since then, we've gained even more clarity about what it means to be the quality leader and pursue...
Source: hospital impact - July 26, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Wendy Johnson Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm - Creating a Brand
As we move from the farm building stage to the farm operations stage, Kathy and I are turning our attention to the basics of running our farming business. We've filed articles of incorporation (Unity Farm LLC), created a formal land management plan for review by the town of Sherborn, built basic processes for recording income/expenses, documented options for selling our products and formulated a multi-year strategic plan leading to full recognition as an agricultural enterprise.Creating a brand is an important step for us as we begin to build awareness of our apples, honey, mushrooms, alpaca fiber, handmade soa...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - June 27, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
HHS OIG Issues Exclusion Advisory
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued an Updated Special Advisory Opinion to help healthcare providers protect against the risk of employing or contracting with excluded individuals and entities. Exclusion—often referred to as the "death penalty" in the healthcare industry—is a remedial punishment that prohibits an individual or entity from being reimbursed by or participating with federal healthcare programs. OIG has sole authority when deciding to exclude individuals or entities, and can do so under a number of mandatory and discretionary ci...
Source: Policy and Medicine - June 21, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
