In the Race to Value, we must recognize that quality of life is the ultimate currency of healthcare, and this aim is all the more important in senior living facilities. …
As the healthcare industry moves towards achieving CMS’s goal of having every Medicare beneficiary in an ACO or ACO-like model by 2030, we must focus on patients in institutional settings. …
In health care, we excel in addressing problems in the human body that are fixable. However, with regard to the two main un-fixables in life — aging and dying— we often inflict therapies on patients that shorten lives or increase suffering …
