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04/14 2011
After the Dust Settles
Budget cuts – especially cuts of a deep and enduring nature – can undermine the sustainability of systems of care. And where will we go as a state in the wake of Arizona’s most recent budget decisions? After the Dust Settles: Arizona’s Emerging Healthcare Landscape is the first of a three-part series that examines various [...] Learn More →
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04/14 2011
CEO Search Underway
Roger Hughes, SLHI’s founding CEO, is retiring at the end of 2011 after 16 years of service. A search for his successor is now actively underway. m/Oppenheim Associates, a national leadership search firm specializing in nonprofits, has been retained to conduct the search. A position description is available on their website. All inquiries should be [...] Learn More →
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04/14 2011
Assessing Health Care Reform
The Arizona Bioethics Network webinar in April will address the topic of Assessing National Health Care Reform: Perspectives on Individual and Community Health. James Hodge Jr., Lincoln Professor of Health Law and Ethics at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, will facilitate discussion of a number of challenging topics from a perspective you may [...] Learn More →
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04/14 2011
Five Communities Project
The Center for the Future of Arizona, which commissioned the Gallup Arizona Poll and the resulting the Arizona We Want report and institute, recently announced the Five Communities Project. This is an opportunity for communities to increase their civic capacity and engagement by coming together to work on one of eight citizen goals identified in [...] Learn More →
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04/14 2011
Duh
A Congressional Budget Office analysis shows that seniors will pay sharply more for their Medicare coverage under the House Republicans’ “Path to Prosperity” plan to reform Medicare and Medicaid. Well, duh. The only way to reduce federal government spending in health care is for beneficiaries and the states to pay more. The only way to [...] Learn More →
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04/14 2011
Strawberry Splash Fruit Gushers
Have only a trivial amount of strawberries from concentrate but contain highly processed ingredients never before present in the food supply, including seven variants of sugar and partially hydrogenated fat, according to a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association. This is merely one example of an “ultraprocessed” food product. The amount of [...] Learn More →
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04/14 2011
Read, Then Delete
In preparation for my exit from SLHI later this year, I’m going through old files and tossing material I thought was important at the time, and now it isn’t. It’s turning out to be most everything in my office. One of the things I came across was the strategic plan we adopted in 1996 shortly [...] Learn More →
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04/14 2011
Get Small
That’s the advice of critics who say that big budgets and big companies in the biosciences actually discourage creativity and risk taking in the development of successful drugs and other products. For proof, they point out that while total R&D investment in the life sciences has approached $1 trillion since 2010 – twice what was [...] Learn More →
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04/14 2011
Low Health Literacy
Is a major impediment to both good health and lower health costs. A recent report pegs the cost of low health literacy to the U.S. economy in the range of $108B to $238B annually. This represents between seven and 17 percent of all personal healthcare expenditures. Some 36 percent of the U.S. adult population has [...] Learn More →
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03/14 2011
Consuming Kids
So how’s that “let’s get government off our backs and trust parents to make decisions for their own children on what they should eat” thing working out for ya? Not well, according to grim statistics on U.S. childhood obesity and predictions that one in three children will develop diabetes if present trends continue. Yet some [...] Learn More →
