External Coverage
Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) - Mercy recently became a “Planetree Designated Patient-Centered Hospital” by Planetree, Inc. It is the first hospital in the state of North Carolina to receive this designation and one of only 12 hospitals in the world. Read more.
The June HealthLeaders Magazine features a profile of MedIC, including interviews with PIs Dr. Al Siu and Dr. Bruce Leff, Carolinas HealthCare System president Phyllis Wingate Jones, and Dr. Michael Malone, medical director of senior services at Aurora Health Care. Read more.
“No Place Like Home:” MedIC co-principal investigator Bruce Leff, MD, who is also principal investigator on the MedIC model Hospital at Home, analyzes the medical and economic value of house calls in the New York Times “New Old Age” blog. Read more.
Reducing Readmissions: Eric Coleman, MD, MPH, discusses the problem of high hospital readmissions rates and how to reduce them through his Care Transitions Intervention, a key MedIC model of care. In the New York Times’ “Aftercare Tips for Patients Checking out of the Hospital.” Read more.
More HELP for Medicare patients: Sharon Inouye, MD, MPH, explains how her Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP), a key MedIC model, identifies and prevents hospital-induced delirium, in “Hallucinations in Hospital Pose Risk to Elderly.” Read more.
Times Spotlight on innovation at Geisinger: MedIC participant Geisinger Health System shows how new models of care can help older patients with multiple chronic diseases. Read more.
MedIC principal investigator Al Siu is interviewed for AARP The Magazine, discusses the growing need for hospitals to adopt care transitions and other care coordination measures under new health reform law. Read more.
A May 14 article in the Charlotte Weekly, "Putting Better Senior Care into Place," highlights Carolinas HealthCare System-Mercy as one of six national hospitals selected by Med-IC to participate in the 2009/10 collaborative.