I asked ChatGPT this morning to summarize the Healthcare Industry impacts of the Big Beautiful Bill. This is the infographic attached to this post.
In summary this is a call to action. In one sense, it may seem impossible to provide the level of care today under the significantly constrained funding on its way tomorrow.
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But before reacting, perhaps this is a time to reflect on healthcare's newest strengths:
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The impact on nursing homes however, represents a huge challenge for further understanding, study, creative and collaborative work and leadership. Perhaps it is only through merger and acquisition with full health systems that the nursing home system can survive and thrive.
Personally, I have seen that most every hospital patient benefits from some basic services regardless of diagnosis:
- Operational efficiencies
- Health system strategies
- Public education and
- Better lobbying
But before reacting, perhaps this is a time to reflect on healthcare's newest strengths:
More preventative care through
- Telemedicine
- Outpatient Imaging
- Walk-in Zero-Wait Urgent, Lab, and Diagnostic Imaging services
- Proactive calls to Patients for semi-annual scheduling
- Post-emergency and hospital-stay clinician follow up calls
- Follow up calls that include scheduling outpatient follow up within the week (proven to reduce readmissions)
- Better efficiencies through collaborations within larger systems and with geographic colleagues
The impact on nursing homes however, represents a huge challenge for further understanding, study, creative and collaborative work and leadership. Perhaps it is only through merger and acquisition with full health systems that the nursing home system can survive and thrive.
Personally, I have seen that most every hospital patient benefits from some basic services regardless of diagnosis:
- Imaging
- Physical Therapy assessment and intervention plan
- Adequate lab panels, as well as nutritional support
Earlier outpatient investments in such care universally may well reduce the costlier downstream effects on hospitals and their health systems.
And I've seen that acquisition by larger systems actually provides a firm foundation of financial support, but not without some rough terrain as the system can take years to understand the power of the individual clinic, hospital, ASC or nursing home.
These things alone may not get us there, but this new pressure should strengthen what we already know works best to prevent serious and costly illness and injury, and keep patients, community and workforce (and economy) stable, healthy and happy.
Health Systems have already been doing much of this. They have the tools and are building more. We just need to find a way to make what is more efficient for patients also more cost effective, and so do more of it.
I humbly suggest to my corporate colleagues, that if what is most efficient is also most expensive, we won't get there. These universal basic services need to be lean commodities, and profit margins need to be rationalized to where healthcare needs to go.
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