Blogs

The Playbook: Talking With Patients About What Matters Most to Them: The Serious Illness Care Program

The Serious Illness Care Program is spotlighted in the Center for Health Care Strategies’ “The Playbook”, an online resource center that helps health care stakeholders accelerate adoption of best practices in complex care.

STAT News: As Covid deaths drop, heart disease and cancer remain leading causes of death

Dr. Asaf Bitton in STAT News on the burden of chronic conditions in our health system.

PBS News Hour: Neighborhood Nursing brings healthcare to people’s doorsteps in vulnerable communities

Dr. Asaf Bitton joins PBS News Hour’s reporting on the Baltimore Neighborhood Nursing program that was inspired by the Costa Rican primary health care model.

The Guardian: Secrets of ageing: making our last years count – podcast

Dr. Rachel Broudy joins The Guardian’s Science Weekly three-part mini-series on ageing to discuss our Eldercare work.

AMA: To improve maternal outcomes, get mom’s care goals on the boardAMA:

TeamBirth implementation at Saint Peter’s University Hospital highlighted in AMA Health System Spotlight.

Harvard Business Review: How to Salvage a Useful Process That Isn’t Working Anymore

Rachel Moyal-Smith, Kaisin Yee, and Mary Brindle in HBR on reimplementation of a surgical checklist at Singapore General Hospital and a how-to on conducting a reimplementation.

NPR: In Baltimore, nurses go door-to-door to bring primary care to the whole neighborhood

Dr. Asaf Bitton spoke with Tradeoffs via NPR on what lessons from Costa Rica’s national approach to primary care could help in the United States.

Six Hospital Sites Honored with TeamBirth Recognition for Excellence

TeamBirth is an evidence-based process that uses team huddles and a Shared Planning Tool to improve communication and teamwork during birth and beyond. It has been implemented in more than 130 hospitals around the US and in Sweden.  To be eligible for TeamBirth Recognition, sites must have an existing TeamBirth program, undergo TeamBirth huddle observations… Continue reading Six Hospital Sites Honored with TeamBirth Recognition for Excellence

Video: Using Scorecards to Strengthen Primary Care

Dr. Asaf Bitton discusses new Health Affairs Forefront article published from Ariadne Labs and collaborators at Massachusetts Health Quality Partners and Milbank Memorial Fund that demonstrates how scorecards can help strengthen struggling primary care systems in the U.S.