I will explore some key causes and solutions to medication errors associated with care transitions using components of Hope Street Group’s analytical model: “Amplify” our productivity- Improve the quality and cost of transitions between acute and other types of care. Care transitions have been identified as...
Going Back to Zero Enough already! As a nation, we generally agree that the teacher is the single most important variable in the education of children. However, very little has been done since A Nation At Risk was published in 1983 to improve the status of...
While in a meeting with U.S. Department of Education’s Assistant Secretary Peter Cunningham, he posed this question to a group of teachers. I would like to answer this question by sharing a story about a former student of mine. Daniel is an African American 3rd grade...
In a speech to Nationally Board Certified teachers, Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, spoke about America’s need to attract and retain highly talented and capable individuals into the teaching profession. Secretary Duncan specifically pointed to how other countries incentivize the highest performing college graduates to...
How does class size affect the abilities of effective teachers? My first year of teaching I sat looking out in a sea of 35 third grade faces thinking to myself, “Where in my methods classes did they prepare us for this scenario?” I knew right then...
One of the pillars of Hope Street Group's strategic recommendations to reinvent primary care may have a harder time being realized based on recent events. Funding for Primary Care GME has become a potential target in the deficit reduction process. Hope Street Group believes that...
Walmart changed the pharmaceutical retail industry forever by creating the $4 Prescription Program. In one fell swoop, a gargantuan company disrupted part of the health care ecosystem. Today it looks like they are taking a new angle on how to manage in store health clinics....
The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report compiled by the Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) was released in October 2010. The report has generated lively discussions from multiple disciplines...
The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health report compiled by the Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) was released in October 2010. The report has generated lively discussions from multiple disciplines about...
In its 2001 seminal report “Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century”, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) described the current state of health care delivery. The report described a health care system that was fragmented, poorly designed and most importantly...