In a recent article for Grantmakers in Health, Rick Ybarra, senior program officer at the Hogg Foundation, explores how philanthropy can contribute to supporting and building a stronger, more robust, and durable nonprofit sector.
Philanthropy has forever espoused the term “sustainability.” We ask in grant applications and in our conversations with grant partners: “What’s your sustainability plan?” and “How do you plan to sustain your program once the grant ends?” Read more…
Wellbeing: A Bottom Line Issue for High Performing Organizations and for our Health Care System
by Rick Ybarra Ok, I’ll admit it. I read the Harvard Business Review. I am fascinated with business models, new concepts, innovations and the cutting edge in business science. I also see how these concepts and applications can easily transfer to our health care...
Aiming Higher: Results from a Scorecard on State Health System Performance
Kudos to the Commonwealth Fund for their recent publishing of the Scorecard on State Health System Performance, 2014. The Scorecard assesses states on 42 indicators of health care access, quality, costs and outcomes from 2007 to 2012. Overall, changes in health system...
Three keys to successful patient engagement
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation brief highlighted an area that does not get enough attention in the health care reform dialogue: patient engagement (PE). Yes, we talk about it. Our friends at the RWJF are sharing first-hand accounts and lessons learned from grantee...
Shared Learning: What Primary Care Can Learn from Behavioral Health
Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, MD is a primary care physician and Executive Director of Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers. He is best known for his ground-breaking and innovative work in “hotspotting,” the concept of lowering medical costs by providing the neediest...
Big Ideas 2014: Creating a Culture of Health
I was intrigued by a LinkedIn post by Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO at Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She talks about her big idea of creating a culture of health. She’s absolutely right on! Often we get caught up in the minutia of attempting to solve...
Good Patients and Difficult Patients: Rethinking Our Definitions
I wanted to share this very compelling, deeply personal story written from the perspective of a daughter recounting the care (or lack thereof) her father was receiving in a hospital setting. Regrettably, this type of situation (some less, some more severe) happens...