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Coverage of the 2011
Health Forum-AHA Leadership Summit
Read and watch exclusive coverage of the 2011 Health Forum-AHA Leadership Summit in San Diego, including video interviews with Atul Gawande, Ian Morrison and this year's AHA-McKesson Quest For Quality Prize winner.
Data: Health Forum-AHA Leadership Summit Executive Poll
| By Haydn Bush | July 22, 2011 |
Attendees of this year's Health Forum-AHA Leadership Summit weigh in on their plans for ACOs, facilities expansion and physician alignment in this exclusive poll.
Health care leaders attending the recently concluded Health Forum-AHA Leadership Summit weigh in a variety of topics, including ACOs, facilities expansion plans and their physician alignment strategies in this exclusive poll, conducted via mobile applications for smart phones.
Lee Woodruff: Give Patients, Families Hope
| By Matthew Weinstock | July 20, 2011 |
Compassion and empathy are critical, often-underlooked components of the patient experience.
In the closing session of the Health Forum-AHA Leadership Summit, journalist Lee Woodruff, whose husband, ABC newsman Bob Woodruff, was injured in Iraq in 2006, recounted that small gestures from hospital staff, like a shoulder to cry on or kind words, gave her family hope during their ordeal. Hospitals should never overlook the power of compassion and empathy, Woodruff argued.
Leading in Difficult Times: Ian Morrison From the Leadership Summit
| By Ian Morrison | July 20, 2011 |
Hospital leaders are finding ways to innovate despite a series of major challenges.
Health Forum-AHA Leadership Summit moderator and health care futurist Ian Morrison talks to H&HN senior online editor Haydn Bush about the lessons from this year's meeting, including the need for hospital leaders to stay focused on transforming their institutions as economic and political pressures continue to mount. Video running time: 3:16.
'The Battle for the Soul of Medicine'
| By Atul Gawande, M.D. | July 19, 2011 |
Atul Gawande on the future of health care delivery.
Surgeon, writer and public health researcher Atul Gawande, M.D., talks to H&HN senior editor Matthew Weinstock at the Health Forum-AHA Leadership Summit about the challenges hospitals face in improving care while facing pressure to reduce costs, the opportunities to be found in variation and the future of health care delivery. Video running time: 11:51.
Will Your Hospital Go the Way of Borders?
| By Matthew Weinstock | July 19, 2011 |
Health care and the U.S. economy in general are in a moment of transformative change. Can your institution adapt and thrive in a new era?
Health care, along with the broader U.S. economy, is in a moment of transformative change that threatens to jeopardize long-standing business practices. But that change is also an opportunity to tackle long-standing issues like disparities in care, which is quickly becoming a business imperative for many hospitals.
AHA-McKesson Quest For Quality Prize: Memorial Regional Hospital
| By Lee Ann Jarousse | July 18, 2011 |
Memorial Regional Hospital CEO Zeff Ross discusses strategies for building a patient-centric hospital culture.
Zeff Ross, CEO of Hollywood, Fla.-based Memorial Regional Hospital, this year's AHA-McKesson Quest For Quality Prize winner, talks to H&HN senior editor Lee Ann Jarousse about Memorial's efforts to build a patient-centric culture of safety, during the ongoing Health Forum Leadership Summit in San Diego. Video running time: 2:45.
Brokaw On Health Care: Ensure That All Americans Are Served
| By Haydn Bush | July 18, 2011 |
During the AHA Health Forum Leadership Summit Sunday, longtime NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw called on hospital leaders to provide all Americans with adequate care.
During his address at the AHA Health Forum Leadership Summit Sunday, longtime NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw called on hospital leaders to provide all Americans with adequate care, even as political tensions continue to rise this month in Washington over the debt limit and its implications for Medicare and Social Security.
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