Ira Byock
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629 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2019
last heard Jul 2025
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You know, another part of this large grandiose initiative or or of the institute was to improve the access to specialty palliative care and the quality of specialty palliative care.
And that was that's a whole s other set of of uh tactics, but but they're aligned deeply.
They're st they're distinct.
Go ahead, Ira.
So I I would just say that the sustainability model was designed from the get-go as to lift from current state to future state, where this was a heavy lift that required lots of different education and buy-in and perform you know uh incentives and all kinds of dashboard, blah blah blah.
But we're now at the future state where this is kind of the
new normal.
And within Providence, while you still have to educate new employees and you have to refresh things and build skills and iterate quality, right now it's kind of like, well, that's this is just the way we do things here.
And it it is sort of self-perpetuating.
Well we really have gotten over a big hump.
Uh money from uh Pink Floyd.
Oh I I think um the one of the themes that I think w runs through the topic that we're gonna talk about today is uh follow the money.
And and it is um probably the key to explaining how uh how we've gotten to where we are today.
I like the article.
I thought it was well reported.
Uh I think it's being mischaracterized.
Uh there was no um attempt to balance anything.
This was an investigative report about fraud in healthcare, uh pure fraud, pure um victimization of vulnerable people.
She happened to focus on uh some uh for some specific for-profit hospital.
providers.
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