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Don't be fooled. Value-based care won't come to you! You need to go to value-based care! How? By weaving together the principles of data, population health management, operations, finance, and change management. Yes, it's challenging, but it's worth it. If you're at the annual #FACHC conference in late July, Carrie T. and I will show you the how, and hear from Syntax Health and Austin Helton about the #VBC #contracting, #data and the impressive results we've achieved. #VBC #ValueBasedCare #valuebasedhealthcare #data #PopulationHealthManagement #pophealth #healthcarefianance #change #changemanagement

Early bird pricing ends 2/8/24. This conference is geared towards all members of the Interdisciplinary Team so it's great for anyone on your team to attend. The link below provides information on key note speakers, pricing, and more. P.S. make sure to catch my On-Demand session 👍 #hospiceeducation #palliativecare #IDTeducation #NHPCO

Cultivating a #PatientPartnership mindset by developing relationships with each other. It matters that we take the time to do this. Change happens when we trust enough to utilise individual and collective knowledge and allow innovation to happen. Together we are laying the foundation for better health&social care services in #OurHSE #BetterTogether #WeAreAllPatients #HSEPatientConf2024 Colm Henry Joe R. Iolo Eilian Bernard Gloster

Sharing a useful infographic on best practices of becoming a health literate organization. What are you hearing about the reading level? It used to be 6th grade but I have talked to a few organizations that are using 3rd grade.

Okayyyyy... I slept for three days and now I'm BACK. And I made muffins for the team. Last Thursday we had nearly the entire department (150ish!) in person. We wanted to start the year with clarity, simplifying the "plans on plans on plans" that Public Health is used to... distilling the next 12-18 month's focus down to a few key efforts. We also wanted to laugh. And we wanted to cry. And we wanted to get to know each other in new ways. We did all of those things. I think I made it about 43 minutes before crying... plus we did Laughing Yoga, so the laughter was mandatory. We played with fidget toys and Play-Doh, and we drew our dream communities. We ate many bagels and bopped our heads to a suitable-for-work bespoke playlist. Most importantly, we explored how we can keep reaching for more and better to serve the hundreds of thousands of people we are entrusted to keep safe and healthy. The Cardinal Seven is our term for the seven big things we will commit to this year. They're bold but doable. They aren't rocket science--but in a world where everything feels overly complicated, it's a nice reprieve from checklists and KPI's. Yes, we will still track and measure and get reaccredited (I declare it), but sometimes you gotta just say what you want to do in plain words. This year, we commit to: 🗣 Creating a culture of honest, 360 feedback that disrupts bias 🗣 🤑 Being better financial stewards 🤑 🏆 Creating a culture of excellence through rapid QI and more transparent recognition programs 🏆 💪 Busting down walls and taking more clinical services to the streets 💪 📈 Modernizing our data systems, reaching towards Public Health 4.0 📈 📢 Being known through a renewed focus on social marketing, brand, and presence 📢 Yes, that's only six out of seven... but the seventh is way too big for a single LinkedIn post. Let's just say that number seven has something to do with cactuses, maps, and real-deal health equity. 🌵 I feel overwhelmingly, unapologetically blessed. It's not all puppies and corn dogs, as one of our directors said at the meeting, but with this team in place, there is hope. We have ambition, energy, humility, and trust. And we know that if we fail, it means we tried. If we tried, it means we believed. (Yes, I used that at the meeting and yes I admitted it was stolen from a Peloton ride I took that very morning)

Many current models of palliative care are not prepared to meet the needs of people who are vulnerably housed, staying in shelters or living in outdoor spaces.   To improve access to safe and high-quality palliative care for these people, communities across Canada have designed innovative models of equity-oriented palliative care. Learn from communities through their promising practice summaries, outlining innovative models of care and the lessons they learned along the way: https://lnkd.in/gV4JC9z4

When you have trusted partners like Jeff and John and the REDi team you take them to your most important relationships, to help with the most critical challenges where the stakes are the highest: preserving healthcare in rural communities. Together we found the formula and we can’t wait to show you how.

Palliative care is about more than end of life care

I like to document things, both big and small. So, I wrote this piece on ‘The Taste of Freedom’ which summarizes my experience working in the Children’s hospital for the past three months. Read here https://lnkd.in/eMytY8Mq

Glad I didn’t miss out on this! Planning, Designing & Developing Sustainable Healthcare Facilities in Asia. I was privileged to attend Asia Healthcare Week 2024 and be amongst healthcare leaders to understand their challenges. As the event featured speakers in both the public and private sector from across the region, it truly delivered thought provoking insights which help me to understand the market we operate in. Everything in the Palm of Your Hand! Without a doubt the game changer for organisations large and small has been the transformative nature of the mobile phone in shaping patient engagement. This has created an abundance of easy to digest data highlighting inefficiencies in the system. The mobile phone has created a feedback culture which drives quality scores ever higher. The mobile phone has also released a host of apps that improve visibility and allow patients to plan and pay for their treatment. This eliminates the need to hang around a registration or payment counter, the waiting room or indeed the pharmacy as medications can be delivered directly to your door. With mobile technologies becoming ubiquitous, the technology focus will continue to move upstream. We already see this in the move to leverage on technology to deliver community based healthcare. We see this in the development of robotics and other high-cost models that are only justified through the advancement of patient care; i.e. there is no plausible financial gain that gives the green light to the investment. So what of the Buildings? Our interest in all this resides in the fabric of buildings; How shall we design buildings and spaces for the future? What technologies are we planning for? How are these buildings to be used to deliver future models of care? Riding across the landscape are the questions of affordability, ecology and sustainability. Big challenges remain such as reducing inefficiencies and cost.  Then there’s the part we enjoy the most; creating better, inspirational places to work and to heal. I’m already looking forward to the 2025 edition of Asia Healthcare Week! Are you? Nicholas Merrow-Smith is a certified healthcare facilities planner and accredited interior designer. Merrowsmith Design Partnership Pte Ltd provides a planning and design service to healthcare providers throughout the Asia Pacific region. #HealthcareFacilityPlanning #PatientExperience #QualityImprovement #HealthcareTrends #HealthcareAsia #HealthcareDesign