What Is Your Organization’s ‘Strategic Inflection Point’?

A recent headline in Forbes really grabbed my attention – Hospitals May Be Disappearing In The Era Of Health Care Reform. It is the title of a great piece by Robert Pearl, M.D. He points out that over the past decade, 16% of hospitals have consolidated by joining a health system, and that trend is accelerating in part due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). In the article, Dr. Pearl notes that "many of us assume the closer our hospital is to where we live, the safer and better off we are. But that assumption is wrong . . .