I’ve asked St. Luke’s Health System Vice President of Regional Relations Rich Holm to share his perspectives on our collaborations with the region’s rural communities. His thoughts are presented here. You’ll be hearing more from Rich and other members of our executive team in this space in the future. My family has been connected in some capacity with St. [...]
We always learn a lot when we ask people to provide us with their input, rather than making assumptions about what they want, and there was so much to learn from my most recent poll, in which I was interested to know how people felt about the terms “patient,” “customer,” and “consumer.” Patient vs. customer [...]
It is with excitement and a great deal of pride that I share with you the news that St. Luke’s has been accepted into the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). Our participation as Idaho’s first and only MSSP participant was effective Jan. 1. For a long time, we have known, and I have been saying, that [...]
Dr. Greg Janos, executive medical director of St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital, imagined the future in the writing that follows. During our coffee chat at Shoreline last week, I promised to post his “Imagine” essay, which first appeared in our January ”News from St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital” publication. Imagine. Sometime in the hopefully not-so-distant future … A 2-year-old [...]
Editor’s note: What follows is a white paper that attempts to pull together many of the disparate and complex challenges confronting health systems in the United States and highlights solutions St. Luke’s Health System is developing to transform care. Summary Health care costs continue to spiral out of control for multiple reasons, primarily: Fragmented care [...]
Editor’s note: My article that follows originally appeared as a column in the Idaho Statesman’s Business Insider earlier this month. Would you like to view your medical record online? According to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study, 90 percent of patients would. Would you like to be able to email your physician? According to that [...]
I want to share with you my thoughts about what the elections this week mean for St. Luke’s Health System. Here is the external environment: President Obama has been reelected to another four-year term, the Democrats have the majority in the U.S. Senate, and the Republicans retain control of the U.S. House of Representatives. We [...]
As most of you know, I hold forums twice a year throughout St. Luke’s Health System. Spring forums look forward, and last spring, I reviewed our strategy around accountable care, myStLuke’s, Healthy U, and the Medicare Shared Savings Program. If you’d like to view a video of that forum, you can watch it at http://drpate.stlukesblogs.org/2012/04/19/my-spring-report-to-st-lukes-health-system/. [...]
Note: The Idaho Statesman published the following as my Reader’s View guest column in the Aug. 26 edition of the newspaper under the headline, “St. Luke’s is motivated to keep health care costs down.” St. Luke’s has set out to transform health care. We are trying to find ways to make investments in promoting health, [...]
I’ve asked John Kee, St. Luke’s Health System vice president of physician services, to share his experience and thoughts about how we’ve evolved and what challenges we face going forward. His perspective is presented here. I’ve introduced John in a previous post, and you’ll be hearing more from him and other members of our executive team as our journey [...]
