Reducing Staffing Costs: Three ‘Must Consider’ Options

Reducing Staffing Costs: Three ‘Must Consider’ Options
Product, place, and provider – these are the three key components to the delivery of health care in the United States. In the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Realigning Health with Care, authors Rebecca Onie, Paul Farmer, and Heidi Behforouz offer a new take on these three components. When it comes to “product,” the authors urge a new way of thinking about the services delivered to consumers, one that includes a consideration of the entirety of a consumer’s needs; this means looking beyond the strictly medical and thinking about social services. For “place . . .