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Accountable Care Innovation Under Way in New York
In moving away from fee-for-service payment arrangements, New York’s health system is experimenting with accountable care. This report explains how accountable care organizations (ACOs) work, the kinds of groups that can enter into accountable care contracts, the challenges they face, and the ways in which they will be able to succeed. It also includes detailed profiles of 12 different Medicare ACOs in New York, showing the wide range of approaches around the state.
Carol Levine: "I Can't Hear You—There's a Rattle in the Room"
Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, discusses medicine's special language or "rattle"—filled with terms, abbreviations, and acronyms—that has special meaning to practitioners but is often meaningless, confusing, or easily misinterpreted by patients and family caregivers.
Carol Levine: A Real-World Test of a Next Step in Care Guide
Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, discusses her recent trip to the Emergency Department and how developing materials for Next Step in Care prepared her for it.
Carol Levine: All in the Family: Children as Home Health Aides
This essay addresses issues that should be addressed to help America's chilc caregivers.
Carol Levine: Family Caregiving Myths, Past and Present
This commentary written by Carol Levine was originally published on February 21, 2012, by Vitamin W.
Carol Levine: Goldilocks and the Three Hospice Patients
Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, notes in this commentary that hospice care is part of a continuum of care, but tensions exist that impede its introduction to patients and their families.
Carol Levine: Health Care Typecasting—"Nobody Knows My Name!"
Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, discusses the frequent tendency of health care providers to typecast family caregivers, and she offers tools and advice on how family caregivers can overcome this obstacle.
Carol Levine: Health Care ‘Reform’ Could Overwhelm Family Caregivers
Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, observes that long-term care and the essential role of family caregivers are striking omissions from current discussions of health reform. She writes, “As long as family caregiving is described and measured as ‘informal’ domestic chores, the traditional dismissive view of women’s work, it will not be appropriately valued.”
Carol Levine: Meeting Tomorrow’s Demand for Home Health Aides
A survey of home health aides provides clues to making the job more appealing to address the anticipated increase in demand in the coming years.
Carol Levine: Next Step in Care: A Web-based Caregiver Manual for Navigating Transitions
In recognition of Family Caregiving month, Carol Levine wrote this blog for the Family Caregiver Alliance, which published a blog a day on family caregiving through November 2011.
Carol Levine: Testimony on HIPAA before U.S. House of Representatives, April 26, 2013
Carol Levine, director of the Familes and Health Care Project at United Hospital Fund, presented this testimony on HIPAA before the U.S. House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Energy & Commerce, on April 26, 2013.
Carol Levine: The Family Health Care Decisions Act
The Family Health Care Decisions Act , signed into law on March 16, 2010, has a simple purpose—to allow family members to make end-of-life health care decisions when the patient has not signed a health care proxy or advance directive. But its specific provisions, which go into effect on June 1, are complex.
Carol Levine: The Missing Link in Chronic Care Coordination
This essay argues that patients and family caregivers should expect to be involved in the post-hospital plan and to have all the information, education, and support they need to make it work.
Carol Levine: The Seattle ‘God Committee’
Written by Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, this commentary, shedding light on the "death panels" rumored to be part of national health care reform, was originally published by the Health Affairs Blog on November 30, 2009.
Carol Levine: The Top Ten Things Caregivers Don't Want to Hear….
And a Few Things They Do
Carol Levine, Director of the Fund's Families and Health Care Project, presents a collection of the kinds of unsolicited advice, unwelcome criticism, and undeserved praise that she and other caregivers receive all too often.
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