Hospital tax-exempt status: a real community benefit!
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Hospitals and health systems have learned, from what we call the medicalization of social problems, that many conditions are only treatable, no curable, by the time they reach our doors. Medical efforts to solve substance abuse, poverty, teen pregnancy, or violence are noble but, in the end, ineffectual.
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A care pathway defines in detail the individual components of treatment for a group of patients. A well-written pathway can lead to consistent care of the highest quality. There are both educational and audit advantages to the approach. The authors detail the means by which groups are selected and the care pathways written. An example of the benefits that can accrue comes from their experience at Ashford Hospital of running a pathway for patients having prostate surgery. The pathways are appreciated by patients, nurses, doctors and managers. Care is improved, costs contained and clinical governance enhanced.
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In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, government created modern health care's infrastructure, expanded and guaranteed health services for most Americans, and was the catalyst for new cures and treatments.
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According to former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm's sometimes controversial take on American health care, "We are inventing the unaffordable and spending the unsustainable. We need to focus limited resources where they will buy the most health for society."