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  • A Plan to Make Homelessness History

    David Bornstein

    December 20, 2010 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    By partnering with cities across America, the 100,000 Homes campaign is going directly to the streets to end homelessness - and it’s working. With roughly 700,000 people in the United States experiencing homelessness, this organization seeks to address that using a tiered system that considers individual health needs as well.

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  • Health Care and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    David Bornstein Tina Rosenberg

    October 18, 2010 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Lesotho, Maseru

    In a mountainous region of Lesotho, a man named Tsepo Kotelo visits 20 villages every week on his new motorcycle to provide health care to local villagers. The Elton John AIDS Foundation gifted the motorcycles to Kotelo and his colleagues, allowing them to increase the number of patients they visit by 600 percent. An organization called Riders for Health helps maintain the bikes, ensuring that remote villages will continue to receive medical care.

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  • If Health Care Is Going to Change, Dr. Brent James's Ideas Will Change It

    David Leonhardt

    November 03, 2009 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Dr. Brent James, chief quality officer at Intermountain Healthcare, came up with a system for regulating and improving healthcare in the Intermountain medical region and at other hospitals nationwide. He teaches a program called the Advanced Training Program that draws physicians and hospital administrators from all over the country. His method is simple; his team develops best care standards for an array of common medical ailments by regulating the care that is suggested to doctors, monitoring patient outcomes based on these practices, and refining the literature to be even more accurate.

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  • The Cost Conundrum

    Atul Gawande

    May 25, 2009 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: United States, McAllen, Texas

    Studies show that spending more money on healthcare, past a certain level of care, worsens patient outcomes. Mayo Clinic has one of the highest-quality for the lowest cost healthcare systems in the nation. They achieve this by pooling all of the revenue from the hospital system and the doctors and paying everyone a salary, removing the incentive to increase personal revenue by increasing spending, and encouraging physicians to work with their colleagues and their teams to provide a higher level of patient care.

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  • One Spoonful at a Time

    Harriet Brown

    November 26, 2006 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Maudsley approach to treating adolescent anorexia puts families at the center of the process, helping patients overcome their aversion to eating by calmly insisting that they nourish themselves back to physical and psychological health. This alternative to hospitalization has proven very effective in multiple studies, even though it contradicts traditional approaches, which keep parents at a distance based on the belief that they are part of the problem. The process is long and laborious, and relapses are common. But one mother's journey shows the hope that emerges when a deadly disease recedes.

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  • Fixing Hospitals

    Robert Langreth

    June 20, 2005 |

    Forbes |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Medical errors kill 100,000 Americans every year. A new vanguard is out to fix the fatal flaws, mostly by evaluating processes and looking for points of breakdown or confusion.

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