President, national media laud Geisinger as role model for health care reform | |
President Barack Obama recently praised Geisinger Health System for providing the kind of healthcare and vision America needs. In his Sept. 9 address to Congress and a speech earlier this summer in Green Bay, WI, the President said: "Even within our own country, a lot of the places where we spend less on healthcare actually have higher quality than places where we spend more. We have to ask why places like the Geisinger Health system in rural Pennsylvania...can offer high-quality care at costs well below average, but other places in America can't. We need to identify the best practices across the country, learn from the success, and replicate that success elsewhere." | President Obama Cites Geisinger
In his healthcare address to Congress Sept. 9, President Obama cited Geisinger as a model of reform. |
What makes Geisinger a leader in transforming healthcare?
"Geisinger's approach to patient care can be seen as a microcosm of the broader national landscape of healthcare delivery," says Ron Paulus, MD, PhD, MBA, Executive Vice President, Clinical Operations & Chief Innovation Officer. "The three core strategies of our quality and value initiatives are (1) ProvenHealth Navigation, which wraps a bundle of services around the patient and family and addresses healthy behaviors, disease prevention and disease management; (2) ProvenCare, which optimizes acute interventions; and (3) transitions of care, which recognizes and seeks to ensure care safety during the handoffs between inpatient and outpatient, hospital and nursing home, and home and nursing home."
National media echo Obama's opinion, cites geisinger's success
The president's comments about Geisinger have been augmented by recent reports in a number of prominent national media outlets that say Geisinger is a role-model system that should be considered as national leaders work on healthcare reform.
Jan. 7, 2010 Innovative Hospitals Offer Model for Reforms - Financial Times explores how Geisinger has shaken up traditional healthcare practices with innovations considered radical.
Oct. 19, 2009, A Healthier Way to Pay Doctors - Time Magazine looks at the effort to rein in health-care costs by examining Geisinger's group practice approach.
Oct. 18, 2009, Healthcare Cure or Anomaly? - The Philadelphia Inquirer examines Geisinger's ability to deliver high-quality care at costs below average.
Sept. 8, 2009, Better Care, Less Pay - An Associated Press story that ran in over 300 newspapers notes: "At Geisinger Health System in Pennsylvania, pay a flat fee for bypass surgery and you'll get essentially a 90-day warranty on your heart fix. Complications? The hospital has to eat the cost. It gambled that following a checklist of best practices would help patients recover faster and cost less -- and so far, it's winning the bet."
July 31, 2009, One Company's Innovative Health Care Approach - CNN reports on Geisinger's ProvenCare program.
Better Care, Pay Less, AP video essay
Aug. 25, 2009, Health Care Innovation Booming in Rural PA - The Philadelphia Inquirer observes: "Compared with the swath of health-care businesses spread out on either side of Interstate 95 from New York to Washington, tiny Danville and Riverside, Pa., at first glance don't seem to have much to offer that industry. But the two hamlets, across the Susquehanna River from each other about 150 miles northwest of Philadelphia, are homes to organizations trying to spark a boom in health-care innovation in rural Pennsylvania."
Aug. 1, 2009, Health Reform Up Close - CNN Reports on Geisinger Health System's innovative approaches to providing healthcare quality.
July 31, 2009, Fewer Errors on Medical Records - CNN takes a close-up look at one how Geisinger is using electronic medical records to deliver better care and make fewer mistakes.
Fewer Errors On Medical Records
June 17, 2009, Obama Calls Geisinger Model for Healthcare - In what was billed as a key policy speech before the American Medical Association in Chicago, the president told thousands in the medical field that Geisinger Health System is a model for how to improve health care nationwide. That is bringing a lot of pride to those who work for Geisinger based just outside of Danville.
Report of President's address to AMA with video
March 31, 2009, For This Health System, Less is More (.pdf) - The Washington Post reports that "In an industry that makes its money by selling more -more tests, more surgeries, more drugs -Geisinger Health System officials gambled three years ago that they could succeed by doing less, but doing it better."
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The Need for Healthcare Reform
