Nearly every time we work with consulting clients working on implementing integrated care the complaint is the same. There’s a healthcare administrator breathing down their neck about how many scheduling slots are going unutilized. It’s as if the golden hammer of healthcare optimization is managing slots. It’s time we call this what it is – […]
During that first visit, it became clear that this new father–infant dyad had no established connection. They had met only a few times, Dad lacked basic supplies such as clothes, a crib, and a car seat, and he was anxious, overwhelmed, and unsure how to begin bonding with his baby. Over the following visits, I […]
By Neftali Serrano, PsyD Far too often, I hear the same weary refrain from healthcare professionals championing integrated care: “My leaders tell me that my integrated care program is just not making us enough money.” Let’s be clear—this isn’t a financial question. It’s a philosophical one dressed up in a spreadsheet. Because when a leadership […]
Maria, RN By three in the afternoon, the clinic always felt a little frayed at the edges. The hum of printers, the faint ring of unanswered phone lines, the blinking of notices for new results — it all blended into the kind of background noise you stop noticing until the day feels heavy. It was […]
Why We Need Dedicated Integrated Care Directors — At Every Level of the Health System If you’ve spent any time in the integrated care space, you know the pattern: A grant funds a pilot. A bold health plan tries something innovative. A state rolls out a value-based model. Then people move on, funding dries up, […]
The question is: how can a design philosophy rooted in early modernism help us create healthcare spaces that are more human, efficient, holistic, and equitable? The answer might partially lie in six Bauhaus ideas that seem to align perfectly with the aims of integrated care. 1. Form Follows Function At the core of Bauhaus design […]
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