How can health care organizations advance health equity when political, legal, and cultural forces are making the work more ...

This discussion highlights the importance of recognizing that everyone can engage in leading within their roles, while also addressing the crucial skills of followership and the need for clarity in ...

Parkland Health is working to address voting as a social determinant of health, recognizing the importance of empowering patients through democratic engagement to affect health outcomes for patients ...

By developing and deploying specialized technology and teams of community health workers, care coordinators, social workers, and pharmacists, Waymark, a public-benefit company, was able to reduce E ...

Penn Medicine’s Cancer Care at Home program, established to address clinical, administrative, and financial obstacles to delivering certain cancer drugs at home, enabled hundreds of cancer patients to ...

Healthcare risk management comprises the systems and processes employed to uncover, mitigate, and prevent risks in healthcare institutions. Understand its purpose, elements, the risk manager’s role, ...

A protocol that can be used by any acute health care institution of any size to determine whether it is in a crisis state, which would allow consistency of approach at the national level. Following ...

Earth’s warming climate is causing heat waves to become more frequent, longer lasting, and hotter, while occurring in locations unaccustomed to such weather events. Extreme heat events (EHEs), such as ...

In this article, the authors discuss the growing crisis of opioid access barriers for people with serious illness, who commonly require these medications as a first-line pain treatment. The authors ...

Changing health care is a complex adaptive problem, with variation introduced at the patient, physician, geographic, supply, and reimbursement levels, resulting in wide discrepancies in health care ...

Care delivery redesign for a multispecialty group practice includes both physical alterations to the office as well as patient encounter changes that involve care team changes, increased virtual care, ...