President's Page: Patient-Centered Care and Health Care Reform

Patient - Centered Health Care

As the United States debates how to reorganize its health care system, policy makers must ask what patients really want and need from their primary care providers. There is often a disconnect between what patients say they want and what other providers or payers think patients want. Our research at the National Partnership for Women and Families suggests that a truly patient-centered health car...

A patient-centered vision for post-acute care reform.

Over the past few years, CMS has urged senior leadership to develop strategic policy directions and initiatives to improve the nation’s healthcare system. CMS believes that the post-acute care product is not well defined. Differences in assessment instruments make detailed comparisons across the settings difficult and/or impossible. Without a uniform patient assessment methodology for postacute...

President's Page: looking beyond the politics of health care reform.

So here we are— hoping that Congress has the will to create a new health care system that solves delivery problems, but once again gearing up to fight physician reimbursement issues, the sustained growth revenuemandated cuts, and attacks on Stark exemptions. y original intention with this column was to comment on how this is a year of health care reform. Below this brief commentary, which becam...

Patient Centered Care Model

Responsible Patient-centered Care