H&HN November 10, 2016
Hospitals and health systems face any number of challenges in managing the health of a population. Most important, perhaps, is putting in place a successful population health strategy and changing a health care organization’s culture to one that embraces the Triple Aim as a core tenet. Leaders must have a clear vision and be collaborative, empowering, innovative and tolerant of failure. They, along with their teams, must also learn what creates success and brings value to their communities, networks and organizations.
Leaders would be wise to recognize the following:
They must maintain clarity of vision, and continually communicate and reinforce that vision to become a population health–focused organization. A mutually understood and agreed-upon vision must become the base to drive...