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Dr. Rex Archer Honored with PHAB’s Prestigious F. Douglas Scutchfield Leadership Award 

PHAB

Archer has served as a member of PHAB’s Board of Directors since 2008 and as a member of the Accreditation Committee from 2014 to 2020 and from 2023 to 2024. He served as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors from 2018 to 2020 and as Chair of the Board of Directors from 2020 to 2022.

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Managed Care History Part III: The Rise of Machine-Driven Managed Care

The Health Care Blog

If you missed it read Part 1 & Part 2 By JEFF GOLDSMITH Two major changes in health insurance ensued as the US health system entered the 21 st century- a strategic shift of health cost risk from providers to patients and the emergence of machine driven managed care.

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Remembering Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter at HJ12 in Atlanta

Association of Health Care Journalists

Rosalynn Carter spoke of the need for everyone with mental health problems to get the care they need through health insurers. In 2007, she shared the Oregonians Pulitzer Prize for breaking news, Roberts noted on her website. Theres been progress on this issue in the 14 years since that interview was done, Holtz commented.

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What Would Newt Do? Making Value-Based Care Victorious

The Health Care Blog

Even that larger effort ultimately succeeded, however, only after the economic crisis of 2008 prompted federal intervention. Gingrich’s pro-computerization push worked not only because he was going “with the tide of societal change,” as his strategy outline put it, but also because many others supported the same goal.

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Public Health community approach to climate. Our carbon footprint or our narrative?

Sheffield DPH

And thus policy. There are plenty of good eg of why tobacco PR should be nowhere near health policy. Eg Climate change Act 2008 Gives us all the accountability we need. Small part in overall answer, but perpetuate problems (sitting too much, high power use, congestion, KSI, pollution). Reduce, reuse, recycle ….

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Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

The Health Care Blog

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. Health Systems Didn’t Just “Happen”; Federal Health Policy Actively Catalyzed their Formation. A comprehensive conceptual framework for assessing the social contribution of complex health systems—hospital-centric or not—is needed.

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‘Disheartening’ auditor report reflects experiences filing complaints about nursing homes

NC Health News

North Carolina had 419 certified nursing facilities with over 34,000 residents in 2024, according to KFF , an organization that provides health policy research, polling and journalism. Medicaid was the primary payer for 61 percent of those residents and Medicare 14 percent.