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Expanding Access with Not-For-Profit Dental Practices: Financially Viable Solutions for Improved Access to Oral Health Care

Posted on Jul 28, 2015

Washington Dental Service Foundation’s (WDS Foundation) is pleased to share five case studies on successful not-for-profit (NFP) dental centers throughout the county. The goals of this project are to document how different organizations moved through the process of expanding oral health access, provide tools to increase oral health access for the underserved, and inspire more communities to consider new NFP dental centers. Download the...

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Agile Strategy

Posted on Dec 11, 2013

Agile Strategy An effective, rapid, collaborative approach to redefining strategic intent and ensuring focus Download the full article...

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Are you ready to be more than liked? Find Your brand advocates – the true mavens of your brand

Posted on Nov 27, 2012

So, you’ve hired a social media liason, you have a Facebook page, you tweet, and maybe you’ve even done a Groupon. You are all over Pinterest and engage with GOOGLE+. You have thousands of Facebook “likes”, but have you really earned any more business? Anyone can click a button, especially if you offer them a gift for the click. But how do you really engage those Facebook fans and Twitter followers? How do you turn those...

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Health Care Without the Doctor: How New Devices and Technologies Aid Clinicians and Consumers

Posted on Oct 10, 2012 |

Prepared for the California HealthCare Foundation, this report examines the technologies, regulatory trends, and market forces that are reshaping the way many types of health care are delivered, and the impact these shifts are having on consumers, clinicians, and the system. Mary Kate Scott May 2009 Recent decades have seen a remarkable change in the delivery of health care services. Nurse practitioners now have much greater prescribing...

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Toolset for Aggregators Implementing the CHCF Small Practice eDesign EMR Model

Posted on May 1, 2012

Lessons from the Pilot Project These tools describe the SPeD model and outline the roles and responsibilities related to enabling small practices to adopt and make meaningful use of EHRs and data-driven improvements. Included are assessment tools, technical guides, checklists, and a playbook. May 2012 The California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF), in conjunction with a team of advisors, developed the Small Practice eDesign (SPeD) model to help...

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The Hospital Retail Clinic Toolkit

Posted on Mar 1, 2012 |

Hospital leaders take major risks by ignoring the retail clinic phenomenon.  As the industry’s leading expert in this field, Mary Kate Scott offers a timely, complete, and practical guide to help hospital management craft an optimal response to retail clinics, which may include operating their own retail clinics, partnering, or using retail clinic principles in existing hospital operations.  The guide includes decision-making tools and...

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