Patient Empowerment for the Caregiver – Caregiver Smile Summit Lorrie Klemons is our guest on the Caregiver Smile Summit. Caregivers cannot carry the burden of caregiving completely on their own. They must learn to create boundaries of the activities they are willing and able to perform. Caregivers must become empowered to...
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Think Hospital Care is Local? Think Again.
Read this interesting story at CNN about a woman who wanted to have her baby delivered vaginally after having a previous child by C-section. Her hospital refused. So she moved. And delivered (safely and vaginally) at another hospital. I am not going to debate the medicine and science behind VBAC’s...
The Deloitte 2009 Survey of Health Care Consumers
The Deloitte 2009 Survey of Health Care Consumers is worth a read. While they tout consumerism, my take is that it is superficial a best. For example just 15% of people compare hospital data for inpatient care. Those who do seek quality data do so from physicians, web sites, friends...