Commentary
Jim Tallon: New Directions
In his 2011 annual report vision statement, Fund president Jim Tallon focuses on the “innovation imperative”—and highlights recent Fund achievements that exemplify just that.
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.
Jim Tallon: Innovation: The Next Wave
In this commentary by United Hospital Fund President Jim Tallon, he discusses how today's innovative approaches—coordinated care, new payment methods, patient involvement—are taking root in actual practice.
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.
Jim Tallon: Getting from Here to There
Four issues exemplify the significant conflicts underlying work in New York to successfully implement a dramatically improved health care system.
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.
Jim Tallon: Positive Changes Taking Shape in NY Health Care
Published by Crain's New York Business on April 24, 2011, and re-posted with permission, this op-ed by Jim Tallon outlines some of the big changes on the ground that are coming to health care.
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.
Jim Tallon: Truth-Telling Time
It's time to tell the truth about the Affordable Care Act—and about the consequences of inaction.
Jim Tallon: The Road Forward
In his 2010 annual report essay, Fund President Jim Tallon focuses on the connections between the Fund's approach to shaping health care improvement, our accomplishments of the past year, and the urgent challenges and opportunities immediately ahead.
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.
Jim Tallon: The "Wait-and-See" Majority
Debate on the health reform law continues, and the challenge is not to stifle it but to focus on expectations and to move forward now on plans for implementation, better coordination, regionalization.
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 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.
Jim Tallon: Crisis, Opportunity, A Bit of Both
New York’s very real budget crisis and the likelihood of national health reform legislation create the climate for the greatest potential improvement in the American health care system in generations. In this "A Word with Jim" commentary originally published in Blueprint, Fund President Jim Tallon goes beyond the headlines to uncover significant opportunities—and essential elements—for success in rebuilding health care within our troubled economy.
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