Peter Pronovost

Baltimore

Health care executive dedicated to improving #patientsafety, enhancing patient experiences and outcomes, and eliminating waste

Articles

Longitudinal, Relationship-Based Case Management: A Prospective Cohort Trial

1 month ago | ajmc.com | Patrick Runnels |Mark Votruba |Peter Pronovost |James Penman |Ryan Muskin |Afua Ansah

PublicationArticleMay 6, 2025The American Journal of Managed CareMay 2025Volume31 Issue 5Author(s):,A longitudinal, relationship-based case management approach significantly reduced health care costs and improved quality of life for Medicaid enrollees with complex needs over 1 year. ABSTRACTObjectives: This study addresses the challenge of improving outcomes for the 5% of individuals with complex chronic diseases who utilize 50% of health care resources.
Yale New Haven restructures to consolidate leadership

2 months ago | beckershospitalreview.com | Madeline Ashley |Laura Dyrda |Kelly Gooch |Peter Pronovost

Yale New Haven Health (Conn.) has shared restructuring plans that will affect management and administration at the system. While the number of affected individuals was not provided, the restructuring comes as the system works to “redefine and consolidate” its leadership team to help drive growth and streamline decision-making, Dana Marnane, director of public relations for Yale New Haven Health, said in a March 21 statement shared with Becker’s.
Hospital profitability to begin 2025: 72 statistics

2 months ago | beckershospitalreview.com | Laura Dyrda |Kelly Gooch |Peter Pronovost

Hospitals across the U.S. are showing signs of sustained financial recovery, with both operating margins and operating EBITDA margins posting significant gains compared to three years ago, according to Kaufman Hall’s most recent “National Hospital Flash Report.” However, the pace and consistency of improvement differ sharply depending on geographic region and hospital size.
20 hospitals, health systems cutting jobs

2 months ago | beckershospitalreview.com | Kelly Gooch |Laura Dyrda |Madeline Ashley |Peter Pronovost

A number of hospitals and health systems are reducing their workforces or jobs amid financial and operational challenges. Below are workforce reduction efforts or job eliminations announced in 2025. Editor’s Note: This webpage was created Jan. 22 and will be updated regularly. March1. East Ohio Regional Hospital, a 140-bed healthcare facility in Martins Ferry, eliminated jobs as it closed.
How an Old Story with Fresh Lessons Can Guide Healthcare During Turbulent Times

2 months ago | beckershospitalreview.com | Laura Dyrda |Madeline Ashley |Paige Twenter |Peter Pronovost

We in healthcare collectively make millions of decisions every day at every level of our organizations. Some involve individual patients, while others involve administrative choices. In our busy lives as healthcare professionals, how often do we pause to deliberate before choosing a course of action? I would humbly suggest it’s not as often as we should.
Reducing the value/burden ratio: a key to high performance in value-based care

Jan 28, 2025 | qualitysafety.bmj.com | Patrick Runnels |Peter Pronovost

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How to foster excellence in multi-team health systems

Jan 27, 2025 | beckershospitalreview.com | Peter Pronovost

Excellence is a function of the choices we make. On an individual level, our diet, exercise and sleep habits can provide a strong foundation for achieving excellence. Our decisions to study and work diligently to the best of our ability in our professional lives also complement these personal choices. However, excellence in healthcare is, of course, more complex than our individual choices. For one, clinicians rarely, if ever, work alone.
Better patient outcomes depend on shared accountability in healthcare

Nov 6, 2024 | beckershospitalreview.com | Peter Pronovost

Constantly improving the care we provide patients is the goal of nearly every healthcare professional — if not every single one. It's what motivates our quality reviews and our clinical and health services research, with thousands upon thousands of efforts to find better treatments for our patients and the smartest way of delivering them. But all this work has an inescapable fact: We in healthcare often fall short of the goals we're trying to achieve.
Ballooning chronic disease rates require rethinking hospitalization

Sep 9, 2024 | beckershospitalreview.com | Peter Pronovost

The goal of any hospitalization is to resolve the issue that brought the patient to our doorstep in the first place. Focus is the watchword. Whether it's routine care or quality improvement work, most of our efforts pinpoint the single diagnosis for which the patient was admitted to the hospital. We've had a fair amount of success with this approach as an industry. Using a transactional model, we've evolved to provide great transactional care. You come in for disease X, you're treated for disease X.
What your patient's family is telling you can make a difference. Are you listening?

Jun 21, 2024 | beckershospitalreview.com | Peter Pronovost

We who are fortunate to work in healthcare study and train for years to develop the knowledge, expertise and resulting confidence to make decisions that are in the best interests for our patients. It's a tried and true process; families rely on us to know what to do. Yet as much as our training and knowledge are important in guiding our decisions, these alone will not result in excellent care that meets each patient's goals and that aligns with their values.