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Opinions/Ideas
20 Editorial
A well-trained army of contact
Recent events show it’s
tracers is essential to fight
long past time to stand up
COVID-19, and they can serve
to injustice; if leaders won’t
as a kind of fire department in
step up to promote change,
then step aside.
future pandemics.
22 Letters
It’s time to establish a national hospital supply chain czar to
8 Cover story
avoid the chaos hospitals have endured during the pandemic.
Making health equity a central principle
24 Best Practices 21 Guest Expert
By Steven Ross Johnson
For healthcare organizations to address systemic racism, they need to By Ginger Christ
make health equity a factor in all of their operations, experts say. Post-acute providers have learned lessons from hospitals to
help keep COVID-19 patients on-site and not end up in the ICU.
Features
12 Pandemic 26 Q&A
proves pivotal for Dr. Laura Forese,
post-acute sector chief operating
officer at New
York-Presbyterian,
By Alex Kacik
A systemic
underinvestment in discusses the
system’s efforts
senior care has left
the sector exposed, to provide for
the physical and
according to industry
experts and operators emotional well-
being of front-
of skilled-nursing and
assisted-living facilities. line staff in the
epicenter of the
They’re advocating for
a new operational and COVID-19 outbreak.
philosophical approach.
Data
16 Making sure patients are a perfect match
25 Data Points
Worldwide, migraines represent one of the most disabling medical
By Jessica Kim Cohen
Inaccurate patient identification remains an expensive problem, leading
to duplicative medical costs and denied claims, and even some serious conditions. See who suffers the most, and at what cost.
clinical concerns, but hospitals have had some success rolling out new
technologies and best practices to mitigate the issue. 28 By the Numbers
The rural hospitals hit with the biggest readmission penalties.
News
2 Late News 7 Providers Diversions
Outpatient employment Hospital leaders skeptical of 32 Outliers
bounces back. using cost savings to set price
for remdesivir. The waters
4 Regional News off the French
Physicians acquire Steward Health 10 Policy Riviera have a
Care from private equity firm. New MedPAC chair: new problem,
It’s about analytics, with detritus of
6 Policy not politics. the COVID-era
HHS studies keeping telehealth littering the
waivers, but can’t do it alone. Mediterranean.
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