No Bigger Medicaid Expansion Stakes than in Texas

http://healthleadersmedia.com/content.cfm?topic=FIN&content_id=325027##

Cystall Ball

In terms of the number of human lives and costs to healthcare providers, Texas stands out among states unwilling to expand Medicaid programs to more low-income adults nationwide.

Plan proposed to pay NY’s big systems $2.5B to bail out Brooklyn hospitals

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/plan-proposed-to-pay-ny-s-big-systems-2-5b-to-bailout-brooklyn-hospitals.html

OR Efficiencies

Reputation is everything: How 2 hospitals are weathering PR firestorms

http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/reputation-is-everything-how-2-hospitals-are-weathering-pr-firestorms/412982/

The Most Challenging Issues Facing Health Systems Today

http://go.beckershospitalreview.com/the-most-challenging-issues-facing-health-systems-today

Self-Discovery

Experts: USA must prepare now for Zika virus

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/01/27/usa-needs-prepare-zika-virus/79398622/

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/3-preparation-tips-head-explosive-zika-pandemic/2016-01-27?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRons6%2FOde%2FhmjTEU5z14ukkX6a2lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4DSsdiNK%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LMKM1ty9MQWxTk

What Hospital Leaders Don’t Know About Clinical Workarounds

http://healthleadersmedia.com/content.cfm?topic=QUA&content_id=324861

digitalcaduceus

Workarounds are inevitable in complex systems. When there is a disconnect between a system’s rigid rules and what its workers feel they must do, leaders should give workers an opportunity to talk about the challenges they face, says a research scholar.

5 challenges facing health systems

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/5-challenges-facing-health-systems

Hospital

Pressures won’t subside until more shift to value-based payments