What if we held ourselves accountable to metrics around the expectations of patients and communities to be able to shop for the right care setting for their needs, compare health care systems and even health outcomes?
Moving Past the Plateau
During a whirlwind spring cleaning at CCMU’s offices recently, we came across a 2004 report from the Colorado Health Institute (CHI) called a “Profile of the Uninsured.” Interested in what progress we’ve made since then, I dove in.
Storytelling for Change
A successful health care system is one that meets the needs of the people it serves—and we can only tell if it is working if we are listening to the people themselves.
Finding Room for Paradox
“Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence – that you can’t get around life’s inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas.”
Staying Hopeful About Health Reform
I’ve been working on health policy issues for more than 20 years, and from the beginning my efforts were framed around health “reform.” Indeed, neither the problems under discussion nor the thrust of the proposed solutions has changed much over that time period.