Healthcare Trends
"Lessons from the Trenches — A High-Functioning Primary Care Clinic"
This article, from The New England Journal of Medicine, describes how Clinica Family Health Services moved “from a doctor-based model to a team-based model” and contributed as an active primary care clinic in newly developing patient care models.
www.clinica.org/docs/NEJMLessonsF...
"A Better Mousetrap"
Clinica Family Health Services worked with Boulder Associates to develop a patient-centered, efficient facility.
Lean Design in Healthcare Facilities
Process-driven design: information on Lean operations, including concepts, fundamental steps, and case studies.
Clinical Integration and the Physician Practice
A discussion of Clinical Integration strategies and design considerations for the new healthcare environment
Advancing the Practice of Patient-and Family-Centered Care and Ambulatory Care: How to Get Started.
Find information regarding patient- and family-centered care and how you can incorporate these practices in your overall mission.
Study: Longer Wait Times for Emergency Rooms
From NPR: A new study describes a disturbing trend in hospital emergency rooms: longer wait times, even for very sick people. That finding follows a recent report from the Institute of Medicine that described emergency rooms as being at the breaking point.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story...
