Hospitals In Focus with Chip Kahn

While more than 90% of the United States is considered rural, only about 20% of our population calls it home. The people in rural America face unique challenges when accessing health care like extreme distances and, in certain areas, severe weather events. In this episode, LifePoint Health’s Chairman and CEO Bill Carpenter talks with Chip about the creative ways their hospitals are overcoming the obstacles. They discuss how LifePoint is achieving its core mission of keeping people healthy and providing high quality health care. Ultimately, as Bill says, all patients deserve the same level of care regardless of their zip code. This episode also coincides with the Federation of American Hospitals’ Rural Hospital Week. Please help us #StandUp4RuralHospitals and the people they serve by using our hashtag and sharing your story of care.

From natural disasters to human tragedies, community hospitals have to be ready for anything and everything. Health care and hospitals especially have a role in every disaster that faces our country. In this episode, HCA Healthcare’s Mike Wargo, VP of Enterprise Preparedness and Emergency Operations sits with Chip in their brand new Emergency Operations Center in Nashville, TN.  They discuss how hospitals are preparing for everything from major weather events like Hurricane Michael to man-made disasters like electrical grid failures. After our original conversation with Mike in August, two major storms hit the US so we reached out to him again to talk about HCA Healthcare's response. Those stories of incredible cooperation are included in this episode. Take a look at HCA Healthcare’s Emergency Operations Center in action during Hurricane Florence: https://www.facebook.com/HCACare/videos/274748799807478/ For additional information on how HCA Healthcare responded to Hurricane Michael click here: https://hcatodayblog.com/2018/10/11/hurricane-michael-updates/

Medicine, technology, and data science have merged in the 21st century. Using big data, hospitals and machines have come together to achieve better health outcomes for patients. In this episode, Chip talks with Dr. Jonathan Perlin, CMO and President of Clinical Services at HCA. They discuss how HCA’s size and scale is helping to collect, analyze and act on the wealth of information being collected in the hospital.

Rapidly changing technology and turbulent politics are having a big effect on the health care industry – especially hospitals. The type of care that patients receive and where it is administered is evolving.  Health care financing and policies are also in constant flux. In part two of their discussion, Chip and Stuart Altman, a health care economist and professor at Brandeis University, look to the future of community hospitals.

Hospitals are centers of medical care, scientific discovery, education and employment in communities from coast to coast, but how did we get here. In this episode Chip will discuss the making of the modern hospital with health care economist and professor at Brandeis University Stuart Altman. They talk about everything from breakthroughs in care to major changes in health care financing and how each of these developments helped create the community hospital we know today.

On this season of the new podcast from the Federation of American Hospitals, Chip Kahn, President and CEO will take a deep dive into your community hospital with experts in the field. What were hospitals like at the turn of the century? What do hospitals do when disaster strikes? How are hospitals using AI technology to improve patient care? Its all here on Hospitals In Focus with Chip Kahn. Listen, subscribe and leave us a review!