JohnGSelf Associates, Inc

We are moving into an era of extraordinary change.  Healthcare will change because government can no longer afford some of its signature programs including Medicare and Medicaid, and because the quality of care and the level of patient safety too often do not match the price we pay.  As this era of change accelerates, we [...] Read more»

“I feel like I am running in circles,” a successful Hospital CEO recently joked.  “As we develop strategies to reshape our organization for the Affordable Care Act, I feel like I am revisiting some places I have been before.” Actually, if he had substituted the word “cycles” for “circles” he would have been more accurate. [...] Read more»

In markets where physicians hold ownership stakes or financial interests in one hospital, and where there is evidence that those same physicians are discharging patients from a competing hospital’s emergency department over to their own outpatient facility to be possibly treated in their own hospital, look for new battle lines to be drawn. For hundreds [...] Read more»