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Revisiting Bariatric Surgery: A Growth Opportunity for Weight Loss
	By Julie Schulz, MD - February 1, 2012 Bariatric surgery has been a weight loss option for decades, but new research and expanded supportive evidence for diabetes treatment in particular, signal a fresh growth opportunity for many health care organizations. Register or login to read more.
Between the In and Out Doors: Partial Hospitalization Programs
	By Jayme Zage, PhD - January 31, 2012 Health care leaders must think of new ways to care for patients with mental health disorders. We need an approach for mental health and substance abuse patients that provides an alternative to acute inpatient interventions—we need to bring back parti ... Register or login to read more.
The Pressing Need for Urgent Care
	By Christopher Cornue - January 30, 2012 Demand for both emergent and physician office care will surge over the next 10 years as the nation's insured population expands and ages. Urgent care centers (UCCs) offer a valuable setting for unscheduled patient visits, while solidifying a key gate ... Register or login to read more.
Watchword for 2012: Value-Driven Strategy
	By Michael Sachs - January 25, 2012 We launch the new year at Sg2 with a call to action for Value-Driven Strategy. Correctly deployed, such a strategy creates a virtuous cycle in which better performance helps health care organizations grow and growth enables them to invest in better p ... Register or login to read more.
Keeping Patients Out of the Hospital
	By Rebecca Booi, PhD - January 24, 2012 Hospitals today often must strive to keep patients from coming through their doors. More specifically, they must prevent potentially avoidable admissions (PAAs). To avoid inappropriate admissions, first consider where PAA patients present for care an ... Register or login to read more.
Making the Case for CT Colonography in the Middle Game
	By Michael Silver, PhD - January 23, 2012 The 3 most widely applied and covered colon cancer screening tests still are not reaching 35.5% of their target populations. Adding computed tomography colonography services can be an effective tool for expanding the capture of early stage colon canc ... Register or login to read more.
How to Handle a Hyper-Growth Market
	By Bradley Helfand - January 18, 2012 Although a hyper-growth market scenario sounds enviable, it does create its own set of challenges. Find out how Sg2 recently helped a large integrated delivery network prioritize clinical program planning for a new greenfield suburban campus. Register or login to read more.
Exploring Comanagement Agreements
	By Margaret Mitchell - January 17, 2012 Health systems continue to look for new approaches to accelerate partnership opportunities with physicians. Comanagement agreements are receiving renewed attention from health care organizations and physicians alike as they seek better alignment with ... Register or login to read more.
Neurosciences Excellence in a System of CARE
	By Jayme Zage, PhD - January 16, 2012 Creating a center of excellence calls for a level of performance that provides appropriate, evidence-based, high-quality clinical care that delivers maximum value. For the neurosciences, this requires a full continuum of well-integrated and comprehen ... Register or login to read more.
Sg2 Letter January 2012: A Year Like No Other
	By Michael Sachs - January 11, 2012 The year ahead promises to be quite a ride, from market share battles and margin improvement necessity, to accelerated risk-based payments and more mergers and acquisitions. Here are 8 trends to watch in 2012. Register or login to read more.
Appropriate Care: Seeking Balance in Women's Health
	By Rebecca Arbuckle - January 10, 2012 Value-driven strategies will require every service line to provide appropriate levels of care, but women's health provides a particularly apt example of this challenge. Health leaders must not only reduce disparities, but find the right balance betwe ... Register or login to read more.
Clinical Cancer Trials: Not Just for AMCs
	By Tina Shah - January 9, 2012 Clinical trials not only create new and better therapies for cancer patients; they also can advance the hospitals that conduct them. Clinical trials have always been a focus of academic medical centers (AMCs), but they can also benefit community hosp ... Register or login to read more.
Getting Patients to Care About Their Care
	By Joan Moss, RN, MSN - January 5, 2012 Although all patients want to be healthy, most don't make the connection between their habits and health outcomes. Growing rates of chronic conditions and their attendant comorbidities make it essential for all clinicians to increase patients' level ... Register or login to read more.
How to Play the Middle Game
	By Bill Woodson - January 4, 2012 Numerous strategies can position health systems to successfully tackle growth. Each organization faces unique competitive dynamics and internal operating constraints. While those factors will determine how each hospital pursues its future goals, the ... Register or login to read more.
No News Is Good News for 2012 Medicare Payments
	By Lisa Slama, PhD - January 3, 2012 Emblematic of the middle game in health care, Medicare payments will remain relatively flat in 2012, with reform mandates chipping away at market basket and consumer price index increases producing only marginal gains. Register or login to read more.

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