Qualifying for ACOs a tough challenge for rurals.
The town of Paris, Tenn., population 10,166, boasts a 60-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower and draws visitors with events such as the “World's Biggest Fish Fry.”
It's also a community where 19% of the population lives below the poverty line and residents struggle with high rates of diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and high cholesterol, plus low health literacy. With the closest major city, Nashville, and its major medical centers two hours away, the job of overseeing population health falls to 101-bed Henry County Medical Center, the only hospital in the county.
“We're a very poor-health community,” says Thomas Gee, the hospital's administrator and CEO. “Just being in rural Tennessee, that puts us at ground zero. There's a lot of room for improvement.”
Read the full story here:http://bit.ly/17gWAQD
Source: Modern Healthcare
Examining Low-Value Cancer Care Trends Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
April 25th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the April 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on the rates of low-value cancer care services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Listen
Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Penn Medicine's Dr Justin Bekelman
December 19th 2023Justin Bekelman, MD, director of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, sat with our hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, for our final episode of 2023 to discuss the importance of collaboration between academic medicine and community oncology and testing innovative cancer care delivery in these settings.
Listen