Hospitals & health networks / AHA
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This month's fold-out section compiles data illustrating the impact that aging baby boomers will have on health care in the coming years. The data is taken from the Digest of Health Care's Future, H&HN's 54-page chartbook of statistics and analysis.
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Even as the federal government tries to prop up Medicare managed care, HMOs continue to pull out of the program. But a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services demonstration project aims to show that one concept of managed care can keep chronically ill patients healthier and lower overall costs. The concept, coordinated care, blends case management and disease management, giving patients the resources to manage their own care more actively. But, please, just don't call it managed care.
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Like meteorologists tracking powerful weather systems, hospital officials have watched uneasily for some time as pressures built. The rising number of uninsured, a nursing shortage, lower reimbursements, and more and sicker hospital patients all brought turbulence. Now a convergence of these and other factors poses a serious challenge to emergency rooms, raising concerns about the stability of the nation's health care delivery system.