Kent Bottles, M.D., writes in an essay in FierceHealthcare that now is the time for hospitals to move to much more decentralized healthcare-delivery system. Among his remarks:
“Seven years ago, I anticipated this developmen {the need for decentralization} and proposed that hospitals must totally rethink their mission and strategy by becoming Community Hubs of Wellness and Health. The traditional clinical delivery system model—organized around a centralized hospital that provides diagnosis, treatment and disease management—simply no longer makes sense.
“Community Hubs of Wellness and Health would:
- “Support a community’s embrace of the Healthy People 2020 program goals, which provide science-based 10-year national objectives for improving the health of Americans
- “Create links between hospitals and other community groups
- “Become a meeting place that is seamlessly integrated into the community
- “House a trusted repository for advice on how to use new technologies—such as digital devices, AI virtual reality—to attain wellness
- “Connect with diverse communities as the demographics of a community changes.”
To read his essay, please hit this link.
