The Impact of Healthcare Reform on Urban & Safety Net Hospitals - Mark Chastang, Grady Health System

The Impact of Healthcare Reform on Urban & Safety Net Hospitals - Mark Chastang, Grady Health System

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  The Impact of Healthcare Reform on Urban & Safety Net Hospitals Interview with: Mark Chastang, quality patient care. The absence of hospitals is to keep cost down and Executive Vice President and broad institutional commitment will remain competitive on a cost and Chief Operating Officer, Grady result in poor to mediocre quality. quality basis. Not all will survive. Health System Efficiency in hospitals can save One piece of advice? lives, costs and time. What best “Patients must be moved efficiently practices would you recommend Stay committed to high quality. This from diagnosis to effective treatment for increasing efficiency within will require motivated, committed with careful attention to their specific the hospital environment? and expert staff. Pay attention to the needs and unique circumstances,” needs of staff and caregivers. says Mark Chastang, Executive Vice Senior leadership must be open to President and Chief Operating new ways of improving This is critical to advancing your Officer, Grady Health System. It is organizational performance at every mission and meeting the needs of important to have caring and level. Learning from others and a patients. compassionate teams dedicated to willingness to adopt industry best creating new and more efficient practices is important for top methods of managing the total performance. At a minimum, setting patient experience from admission to reach goals and adopting national discharge. benchmarks for quality, safety as A speaker at the marcus evans well as financial improvement will drive institutional performance. Senior National Healthcare CXO Summit Spring 2012 in Hollywood, Florida, Focusing on systems and processes, not single events, that support safe leadership April 26-28, Chastang discusses the need to create a seamless provision and efficient patient care will help tremendously. must be open of care. Hospitals are under great to new ways How can healthcare professionals improve patient pressure to treat uninsured patients. What do you believe of improving care and lower length of stay? can be done? organizational There must be full commitment and The new healthcare legislation performance high priority placed on improving attempts to reduce the financial quality, and lowering patient length pressures created by large numbers at every level. of stay at the highest levels of of uninsured patients by offering executive leadership. coverage for a major segment of this population. This will go far in Committed and engaged leadership improving bottom lines for many will create an organizational culture urban and so called safety net supportive of safe, efficient and high hospitals. The challenge for these
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