The future of care delivery goes under the microscope聽

Apr 23, 2023 - 02:32 PM
Evolving Systems of Care session at the 2023 AHA Annual Meeting.

More than 1,000 executive leaders from the nation鈥檚 top hospitals and health systems convened at the 2023 AHA Annual Membership Meeting, April 23-25 in Washington, D.C.

The future is in innovation, both in process and in thought, according to a panel of health care leaders at Sunday鈥檚 Evolving Systems of Care for the Future session at the AHA annual meeting. The panel, which included AHA board member Tina Freese Decker, president and CEO of Corewell Health, and Jennifer Havens, CEO of UnityPoint Health-Grinnell Regional Medical Center, discussed how smaller organization can remain viable by refusing to remain complacent in their daily work, and instead face new challenges head-on. 
  
鈥淚鈥檓 tired of the status quo,鈥 said Decker. 鈥淎nd I think we need to really address the issues about health equity and affordability, about quality and safety, accessibility, and we need to move forward some innovative ideas to really transform that will then address some of the areas for customer care.鈥 
  
Also participating on the panel, former Federal Trade Commissioner Noah Phillips discussed antitrust law and the FTC鈥檚 scrutiny of mergers, with labor questions driving many compelling arguments in favor of combining hospitals. 

For more on the 2023 AHA Annual Meeting, read AHA's coverage.

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