While we have completed health assessments for many years, this report represents the first time that healthcare stakeholders – hospitals, medical centers, foundations, non-profit organizations, health leadership groups and public health agencies – joined forces to assess our region. This partnership resulted in an informative and comprehensive examination of health indicators used to identify ...

As healthcare systems across the country shift to value-based care, they face an enormous challenge. Not only must they reimagine how they identify, engage, and manage the care of patients, they also need to determine new ways of engaging and aligning physicians and other caregivers in creating better-coordinated care across the continuum. This article explores how healthcare systems making the...

The improvement of quality care is a major goal for modern healthcare. Quality often measured through readmission rates specific conditions such as heart failure, pneumonia, total arthroplasty the knee/hip, etc. This data has been used by Center Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to adjust reimbursement hospitals with excessive readmissions. Different hospital operations management models pos...

Health expenditures on profit effect farmers in Bayelsa State, Nigeria were examined. Purposive and random sampling procedures used to select 216 respondents for the study. The average monthly health expenditure net farm income per farmer N664 N17,995.31k respectively. regression model showed that had an inverse relationship with profit. Their total healthcare was significantly influenced by ge...

Published in the Review of Radical Political Economics, December 1997 THE RATE OF PROFIT AND THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM According to Marxian theory, the performance of capitalist economies depends above all else on the rate of profit. When the rate of profit is high, capitalism is relatively prosperous: business investment is high, unemployment is relatively low, and the living standards of worke...

The 2007 financial crisis has reignited the discussion on crises, their origin and possible remedies. At present the most influential thesis on the left sees the crisis as caused by underconsumption and recommends Keynesian policies as a solution. This paper argues that we should understand the crisis from the perspective of Karl Marx’s “law of the tendential fall in the average rate of profit”...