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Product Identifiers
PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-101609945174
ISBN-139781609945176
eBay Product ID (ePID)110883854
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBest Care Anywhere : Why Va Health Care Is Better than Yours
SubjectMilitary / Veterans, Public Health
Publication Year2012
FeaturesNew Edition
TypeTextbook
AuthorPhillip Longman
Subject AreaMedical, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight9.9 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number3
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2011-046397
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"This important book describes the turnaround of the VA health-care system--now widely recognized as leading the nation in terms of both quality and costs--and offers insights that will be useful to patients and policymakers alike." --Elliot S. Fisher, MD, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School "The improvement of the VA health-care system in the past decade is one of the most impressive stories of large-scale change--and the leadership thereof--in modern times. Students of quality improvement will find lesson after lesson in this important case study." --Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services "Phillip Longman has uncovered the biggest untold medical story of the last decade." --Paul Glastris, Editor in Chief, Washington Monthly "Longman's book is a beacon of hope." --Theodore Marmor , Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Yale University
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal362.1086/970973
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
Table Of ContentPreface to the Third Edition: After Obamacare Introduction Chapter ONE: Best Care Anywhere Chapter TWO: Hitting Bottom Chapter THREE: Revenge of the Hard Hats Chapter FOUR: VistA in Action Chapter FIVE: The Kizer Revolution Chapter SIX: Safety First Chapter SEVEN: Who Cares about Quality? Chapter EIGHT: When Less Is More Chapter NINE: Open-Source Medicine Chapter TEN: Growing the VA Chapter ELEVEN: VA Care for Everyone Notes Acknowledgments Index About the Author
SynopsisPhillip Longman tells the amazing story of the turnaround of the Department of Veterans Affairs health-care system from a dysfunctional, scandal-prone bureaucracy into the benchmark for high-quality medicine in the United States. Best Care Anywhere shows that vast swaths of what we think we know about health, health care, and medical economics are just plain wrong. And the book demonstrates how this extraordinarily cost-effective model, which has proven to be highly popular with veterans, can be made available to everyone. New to this edition is an analysis of how the shortcomings of both so-called Obamacare and Republican plans to privatize Medicare reinforce the need for applying the lessons of the VA. Also included are completely updated statistics and research, as well as examples of how the private sector is already beginning to learn from the VA's example., "An outstanding book . . . documents how the VA's system of integrative care outperforms the models used by private insurers." -- USW Blog (United Steelworkers) NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Phillip Longman tells the amazing story of the turnaround of the Department of Veterans Affairs health-care system from a dysfunctional, scandal-prone bureaucracy into the benchmark for high-quality medicine in the United States. Best Care Anywhere shows that vast swaths of what we think we know about health, health care, and medical economics are just plain wrong. And the book demonstrates how this extraordinarily cost-effective model, which has proven to be highly popular with veterans, can be made available to everyone. New to this edition is an analysis of how the shortcomings of both so-called Obamacare and Republican plans to privatize Medicare reinforce the need for applying the lessons of the VA. Also included are completely updated statistics and research, as well as examples of how the private sector is already beginning to learn from the VA's example. "Among the most important social policy books published in the last decade." --Ezra Klein, The Washington Post "Read Best Care Anywhere not just to learn about one of our public health agencies that is a global star in terms of cost effective, evidence-based results, but also to learn how your own health care process can be improved by adopting the Veterans Health Administration's methodology for transparency and patient-centered care." -- New York Journal of Books, NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED A Model for Health-Care Reform Phillip Longman tells the amazing story of the turnaround of the Department of Veterans Affairs health-care system from a dysfunctional, scandal-prone bureaucracy into the benchmark for high-quality medicine in the United States. Best Care Anywhere shows that vast swaths of what we think we know about health, health care, and medical economics are just plain wrong. And the book demonstrates how this extraordinarily cost-effective model, which has proven to be highly popular with veterans, can be made available to everyone. New to this edition is an analysis of how the shortcomings of both so-called Obamacare and Republican plans to privatize Medicare reinforce the need for applying the lessons of the VA. Also included are completely updated statistics and research, as well as examples of how the private sector is already beginning to learn from the VA's example. "This important book describes the turnaround of the VA health-care system--now widely recognized as leading the nation in terms of both quality and costs--and offers insights that will be useful to patients and policymakers alike." --Elliot S. Fisher, MD, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School "The improvement of the VA health-care system in the past decade is one of the most impressive stories of large-scale change--and the leadership thereof--in modern times. Students of quality improvement will find lesson after lesson in this important case study." --Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services "Phillip Longman has uncovered the biggest untold medical story of the last decade." --Paul Glastris, Editor in Chief, Washington Monthly "Longman's book is a beacon of hope." --Theodore Marmor, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Yale University
LC Classification NumberW 84 AA1
