Editor’s note: I recently interviewed Dr. Kirsten Meisinger for Patient Safety Beat, the digital newsletter of the Betsy Lehman Center. In that conversation, she talks about the “National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being” that was released in October, how teamwork has transformed her practice and the effect that financial pressure has on healthcare. Danny van […]
On a snowy January morning, Luis Portillo stood in line on the side of a busy road in Silver Spring, Maryland — a suburb just north of Washington, D.C. — with about 200 other people, waiting for his turn to get tested for covid-19 at Mary’s Center, a federally qualified health center. Portillo, a 65-year-old […]
Danny van Leeuwen, whose “Health Hats” blog and podcast are often featured here, embodies engagement. In the intro to his latest podcast, he emphasizes the richness of patient engagement; done right, it pervades an organization at all levels: Patients engaged in governance, design, operations, and learning about medical care delivery, policy, research, technology, and business. […]
In a recent episode, the “An Arm and a Leg” podcast offers novel, inspiring examples of patient and community engagement in healthcare. Though the podcast nominally focuses on problems related to the cost of care, the core subject of this episode is hope. Hope for delivering healthcare to a community with challenging circumstances, including low resources […]