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PHAB Names Joneigh Khaldun, MD, MPH, FACEP, As New President and CEO

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Department of Health and Human Services. She is a practicing emergency medicine physician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. This is a critically important time for public health, said Dr. Khaldun. To learn more about PHAB, visit phaboard.org.

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Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

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Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. However, as we discussed in a 2021 posting in Health Affairs , these large, complex health enterprises played a vital role in the societal response to the once-in-a-century COVID crisis. Origins of Hospital Consolidation.

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Imaging a Different Future

The Health Care Blog

One sets up the problem healthcare has (although healthcare is not explicitly mentioned), while the other illustrates it. Those are exactly the right questions we should be asking about healthcare. Our most ambitious healthcare reform proposals seem to either be the catch-all “Medicare For All” or the simplistic single payor.