Developing Healthcare

Finding methods to lower hospital readmission rates is a common theme  among hospital executives. After all the money Medicare paid in readmissions and could have saved, $15 million according to a 2005 MedPAC study, $12 million of which was estimated could have been avoided, penalties are strict for readmitting certain cases within a given time frame. Innovative [...]

Even in this time of health systems increasing cost savings and moving away from lavish interiors, hospitals are still willing to go the extra mile when designing patient rooms. Whether through sophisticated electronics or expanded room space, hospitals upgrading patient rooms may expect increased patient satisfaction as well as an economic gain. Hospital room upgrades [...]

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have received much of the recent buzz in regards to new models of healthcare that accurately address health care reform’s demands. We have discussed in earlier posts some good examples of effective ACOs, but nothing on a state wide scale. James Robinson and Emma Dolan of the Integrated Healthcare Association recently [...]

Hospital executives need look no further than Massachusetts’s healthcare reform to see a potential future for healthcare real estate development. Randyl Drummer reported in a 2009 CoStar article that from 2006-2009, as a direct correlation to healthcare reform, an additional 1.8 million square feet of new medical office space has been developed and absorbed in [...]

In 2006 the state of Massachusetts passed mandatory healthcare legislation. This state wide legislation is viewed as the precursor to the national healthcare reform. A review of the early effects may mirror what the rest of the nation can expect in the coming years. So far the results are not acclaimed. One observation has been [...]

As the Keynote speaker at last month’s Interface Medical Office Conference in Dallas and the cover of the August edition of U.S News and World Report suggest, Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are rapidly growing in popularity among health systems. ACO’s,  in the mind of the architects of Health Reform, will become the Keystone to control [...]