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Coordination of Care Hits New Heights in Manhattan
As the health care system evolves, one of the key success factors that comes up time and again is the ability for the different entities within the system to collaborate with one another to produce a quality of care that…
Tags: Business, health care, health care facilities, Hospitals, Long Term Care, patients
Coordination of Care Offers Opportunities for Providers
Watching the Olympic opening ceremonies, it would be difficult to miss the fact that the UK chose this very public stage to celebrate, of all things, their healthcare system. It is hard to imagine such a thing happening on US…
Tags: Business, health care, Home Care, Hospitals, Long Term Care, LTCAdministrator.com, nursing homes, research
Collaboration is the Key to Success for Long Term Care Facilities
Despite government threats of financial penalties, hospitals have made little headway in improving rates of preventable readmissions, according to recent Medicare data. More than 20% of Medicare patients return to the hospital within a month of discharge and despite policy…
Tags: Business, health care, health care facilities, Hospitals, Long Term Care, LTCAdministrator.com, Medicare, nursing homes
Nuts Enough to Start Your Own Business?
Had to chuckle when reading the article in the September 19th Business Section of the New York Times; the headline alone, was worth the price of admission: “Just Manic Enough: Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs”… For one thing, I enjoyed a frisson…
Tags: Business, entrepreneur, New York Times
Twitter Gets Down to Business
The challenge to manage corporate communications via social media in a responsible manner keeps getter tougher. Just when you thought you could leave Twitter to others who had the time to engage in mindless solipsism, you see an article in…
Tags: Amazon.com, Avnet, Best Buy, Business, CBS, Cisco Systems, communications, corporate, Dell, EMC, FedEx, Fortune 500 Companies, Google, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's, Microsoft, Monsanto, New York Life Insurance, Newell Rubbermaid, Oracle, Safeway, SEC, Symantec, Texas Instruments, The Wall St. Journal, Time Warner, Toys 'R' Us, tweets, Twitter, Wells Fargo, Whole Foods Market
Marketing to a “New Frugality”
The “New Frugality” is the behavioral response of Americans to the the nearly $13 trillion loss of wealth since the recession began; their upended confidence in the capitalist system is kick-starting a more cogent move toward frugality. Economists believe that…
Tags: Advertising, Behavioral Economics, branding, Business, culture, Families, Friendship, Marketing, Workplace
Shower with the Grandkids for a Great Recession Buster
Had more fun this morning than a human being has a right to! This as- stressed- as -anyone-else advertising, marketing person, (forget about it being days before Passover!), returning from an early, intensive session of aerobics and serious Spin ,…
Tags: Advertising, Behavioral Economics, Business, culture, exercise, Families, Friendship, Health Care, Marketing, seniors, Workplace
Patting Yourself on the Back After You Exercise?
Yep, here’s another proof that exercise, “often” is really counter-intuitive. A recent study documented the fact that people tended to lose less weight than expected when they passed a certain threshold of serious activity…which is what I all too often…
Tags: Behavioral Economics, Business, culture, Ethics, exercise, Families, food, Friendship, Health Care, Religion
Which Legacy
by Ruth Folger Weiss Guess who said, albeit wistfully: “I’d like to be known as a loving and supportive father and grandfather.”? ‘Betcha you didn’t figure it was Sumner Redstone, chairman and controlling shareholder of Viacom and CBS, answering a…
Tags: Business, embires, Family, father, grandfather, relationship, s, Shari Redstone, Sumner Redstone, Viacom and CBS
