The National Rural Health Resource Center Releases A Rural Guide to Improving COPD Care
The National Rural Health Resource Center (The Center) contracted with Stroudwater Associates on this project.
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Patient-Centered Medical Home & Team-based Care: Two Complementary Models to Achieve Optimum Benefits for Practices and Patient Care
by Louise Bryde, Principal The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care and the Team-Based Care Model share several important characteristics:…
Strategic Options: Understanding the Risks
Traditional operating strategies that sustained community hospitals in the past will not sustain them into the future. Where do community…
Stroudwater Promotes Two Consultants, Welcomes New Consultant, Accepts Patriot Award
Opal Greenway & Jonathan Pantenburg promoted to principal | Zach Boser joins firm | Jeff Sommer accepts Patriot Award in…
Three Critical Components For Joint Venture Ambulatory Surgery Center Success
Joint venture ASCs are driven increasingly by physician-hospital alignment rather than the immediate margin lift from hospital outpatient department rates.
How To Use a Variable Labor Budget to Quickly Adjust Staffing To Match Volume
This Variable Labor Budget allows leadership teams, in partnership with front-line managers, to quickly adjust staffing as volumes fluctuate over…
Medicare Margins Continue To Erode as Value-based Care Upends Traditional FFS Model
As Medicare margins continue to erode, one-time gains hospitals and health systems experienced as result of Medicaid expansion or private…
Kaiser Family Foundation Hospital Utilization per 1000 (2005-2017)
Click graphic below to see your state’s hospital admissions, ER visits, inpatient and outpatient days per 1000 population – and…
Demand-based Staffing: How to Set The Course w/ Initial Performance Goals
An Initial Performance Goal is a preliminary performance goal, the starting point for articulating expectations across departments.