Search johnahartford.org Sort by: Relevance Most Recent Oldest Searched for | Total Results: 5576 Visionary Takes the Helm at CMS July 22, 2010 - Congratulations to Don Berwick, MD, MPP, founding President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), on his recent appointment as the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Dr. Berwick has dedicated his professional life to the promotion of quality and safety in health… Everybody Has a Doppelganger July 27, 2010 - I’m pretty sure that this is true only late at night when people are telling scary stories around the campfire. But the Hartford Foundation does seem to have a doppelganger in (or to be a doppelganger of) The Leyden Academy for Vitality and Ageing in the Netherlands. Their mission, translated… “But I See Old People Everywhere”: Dispelling a Myth July 29, 2010 - What will it take to ensure that all physicians are competent to care for their large and growing numbers of older patients? Despite being only 13 percent of the population, older adults (those over 65) are big users of health care. For example, they make up 35 percent of… An Interview with David Reuben, MD August 03, 2010 - David Reuben, MD, a longtime Hartford grantee, is chief of Geriatrics at UCLA and directs the Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine there. In July, Dr. Reuben became the Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). He spoke with Health AGEnda about recruiting geriatricians, teaching teamwork, new… Place Your Bets: Hartford Scholars Learn Communications Skills August 05, 2010 - “I’m a gamblin’ man, I gamble everywhere I go.” -Sung by David Honeyboy Edwards (pictured left) during a guest performance at the 2010 Hartford Interdisciplinary Scholars Communications Conference. If I were a gambling man, I would readily place a bet on the future success of the junior faculty and fellows… Building Better Care: Improving Health Care Delivery for Older Adults and their Families August 10, 2010 - On July 28, I attended a special forum, hosted by the Campaign for Better Care, called Building Better Care: Improving the System for Delivering Health Care to Older Adults and Their Families. It took place at the National Press Club, in Washington, DC, and was also accessible via Webcast… Booster Shots and Going Viral: Hartford Scholars Learn Communications Skills, Part II August 12, 2010 - In Part I of this post, I shared a little about the eighth annual Hartford Interdisciplinary Communications Conference, which brings together emerging academic experts in gerontological nursing, medicine, and social work to help improve their ability to communicate about their work. After hearing “Gamblin’ Man” performed by David Honeyboy Edwards… Philanthropy 1.0: Still Building Better Mousetraps August 17, 2010 - A caricature of how philanthropy stimulated social change in “the good old days,” derisively called Philanthropy 1.0, describes the process this way: first, private funding helped successfully develop an innovation; the innovation then gained recognition; and finally the government rushed in to adopt it and take it to scale. (If… Bill Hall and John Burton Wrote a Book! August 19, 2010 - One of the persistently nagging challenges of trying to improve health and health care for older Americans is the general public’s refusal to share our belief in this need. We've raised many of the issues in this blog: - Most people are happy with their health care providers and don't… Palliative Care: We Still Have a Lot to Learn August 24, 2010 - This week’s New England Journal of Medicine contains a fascinating randomized controlled clinical trial of best cancer care, with palliative care versus best cancer care alone, among patients newly diagnosed with stage 3 and 4 non-small-cell lung cancer. The quick version is that combined palliative and best cancer care led…
