Category: Group Health Cooperative
For those of us who have looked forward to the day when better health care access is provided to each and every person, it’s a great, new day.
Group Health Research Institute’s research into the prevention and care of chronic disease puts it on the cutting edge of the fast-changing world of global health
Group Health studied the costs and outcomes for patients going to its “medical home” project. The conclusion? The medical home cut costs significantly.
Group Health achieved a score of 744 on a 1,000-point scale, Providence Health Plan came in a close second with 739. Kaiser Family Foundation Health Plan was third with a score of 724.
Patients on highest doses were nine times more likely to overdose than those on lowest doses
Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative seen as potential model for health reform.
Group Health is seeking hospice volunteers with weekday availability in Seattle, East King and Snohomish counties. Hospice volunteers stay with terminally ill patients in their homes while caregivers take needed breaks, visit patients in nursing homes and other facilities, assist with errands, transportation and other practical tasks. The next training sessions will be held Monday, [...]
By Jonathan Cohn July 13, 2009 This column is a collaboration between KHN and The New Republic. Negotiations over health care reform screeched to a halt late last week when 40 centrist Democrats–members of the House Blue Dog Coalition–signed a letter saying they could not support the House’s emerging legislation without significant changes. Their major [...]
Money and medicine KUOW looks at the salaries of Seattle’s top docs and charity care Washington non-profit hospitals give John Ryan, a reporter for Seattle’s Public Radio affiliate KUOW, looked at how much Seattle-area hospitals, most of which enjoy the tax benefits of non-profit status, pay their top officials and how much charity care they [...]
New York Times profiles Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative Opponents to a public health insurance plan are proposing private-sector insurance cooperatives as an alternative, and they are pointing to Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative as an example of what such cooperatives can accomplish, writes New York Times reporter Kevin Sack in today’s issue of the paper. Group [...]
By Jenny Gold of Kaiser Health News Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., recently introduced the idea of non-profit insurance cooperatives as an alternative to a government-sponsored public insurance option in Democratic proposals to overhaul the nation’s health care system. Many Republicans and health insurers oppose the idea of a government-run approach, charging that it will be [...]
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