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The California Foundation, “The Picture of Health: A Data Design Challenge” Winners

In June, the California HealthCare Foundation announced the winners of its “The Picture of Health: A Data Design Challenge.” Applicants were asked to illustrate health care cost data in “a compelling and comprehensive manner.” Challenge winners provided interesting ways of conceptualizing the cost of care. Click here to view the winning entries Click here read the California HealthCare Foundation winner press release

Hospital Related Infections Drop Under Statewide Patient Safety Collaborative Designed and Launched by Margolin in Former Role as Healthplan CEO and Supported by Horsfall in Development of Business Case for Safety & Year One Program Management

by Duke Helfand August 23, 2011 Scores of California hospitals, under pressure to reduce infections that kill an estimated 12,000 patients every year, say they have managed to cut costs and save lives through an initiative that has nurses and doctors redoubling efforts to prevent deadly germs from taking root. Click here for the full article.

Hospitals Employing More Docs to Grow Market Share, Study Finds

By Jaimy Lee Modern Healthcare Magazine August 18, 2011 The center found that hospitals can improve quality by aligning with physicians but employing physicians is not a guarantee of clinical integration. Click here for full article

Hofstra Law Journal – Bridging the Health Care Divide

Leslie Margolin has worked to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, accessibility and affordability of health care for 26 years, which could make her one hot political ticket in light of America’s national health care shortcomings and the passionate debates about how to fix the system. But for the moment, politics are the last thing on her mind, although that was not how her career started. “Since I was in junior […]

Better to Best: Value-Driving Elements of the Patient Centered Medical Home and Accountable Care Organizations

“What do you want health care to become?” was the question that opened discussion among a group of national thought leaders assembled on Sept. 8, 2010 in Washington, D.C. The answer to this question became the framework for a daylong discussion led by moderator Susan Dentzer and hosted by The Commonwealth Fund, the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative and the Dartmouth Institute. Almost eight months in planning, the journey to the […]

David Cutler on Health Reform

March of Dimes Names New Los Angeles Board Chair

Leslie A. Margolin: President & CEO of Partners Transforming Health, Former Senior Executive at Anthem/Blue Cross, Kaiser Permanente and CIGNA HealthCare (CA) Leslie A. Margolin Elected Chair of March of Dimes Los Angeles Division Board of Directors Los Angeles Division Board Chair helps lead fight for healthy babies in Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA – March 7, 2011) – The Los Angeles Division Board of Directors of the March of […]

Kaiser Permanente Labor Management Partnership

“…if i had one person with me in a crisis situation to think hard about what to do and then to deliver a key message, it would be Leslie. To me, this is leadership in action.” Thomas A. Kochan MIT Sloan School of Management This case study, prepared by MIT scholars Thomas A. Kochan and Robert B. McKersie, and Harvard scholar, Susan C. Eaton, was published by MIT. The study […]

Hospital CEOs Gather to Hear Margolin Speak – Tucson, AZ

A dynamic and vibrant association of hospital leaders representing more than 140 community-based, not-for-profit health care systems across the Western United States committed to addressing supply chain innovation and hospital-based cost, quality and safety issues, the VHA – West Coast Division invited Margolin to address its membership in a speech entitled: “There IS a Private Sector Solution – It is Ours to Lead: Creating Care Innovation Corridors – Together”

Encouraging Full Term Pregnancies

The Wall Street Journal A Push for More Pregnancies to Last 39 Weeks By LAURA LANDRO Published March 1, 2011 “For an unborn baby to develop fully, obstetrics groups firmly recommend 39 weeks in the womb—and not a day less, if labor will be induced without a medical reason. Doctors and mothers, though, have been less rigid, often pre-scheduling induced deliveries a week or even two weeks ahead of the […]