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Inside this Issue:

  • Pharmacy Costs
  • Is the Doctor In? Who Owns the Practice?
  • At the End of Healthspan & Lifespan: Where & How Americans Die is Changing
  • Screening for Food Insecurity…Educating for Healthy Living & Healthy Eating
  • A Cautionary Tale
  • People Aren’t “Doing It” Enough
  • Healthcare in Rural America
  • The Doctor and AI Will See You Now
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Inside this Issue:

  • 2025: Looking Forward
  • Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
  • What About Public Health?
  • Trust: The Critical Element
  • U.S. Drug Overdoses
  • Nursing Field Attracting More Men
  • Up in Smoke
  • "Doctor AI" Will Now Authorize Your Treatment!!
  • Quality - Yes; Burnout - No
  • Efforts to Ban Cell Phone Use in Schools & Implications for Youth Mental Health
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Inside this Issue:

  • A Time to Reflect
  • Focus on Heart Disease
  • Collective Trauma/Commemoration –An Appropriate Moment of Silence
  • What’s Covered and By Whom?
  • Health System’s New Evolving Growth Metrics
  • The Challenged Rural Hospital: ?Academic Medical Centers to the Rescue?
  • Where You Were Born or Where You Live May Have Bearing on How Long You Live
  • The Worldwide Obesity Challenge
  • The Aging Highlight the Flip Side of the Argument
  • Artificial Intelligence Use in Healthcare: A Few Tidbits
  • Something to Be Watched
  • Within Your Control: Modifiable Risk Factors
  • Data: Issues at a Glance
  • AND MUCH MORE...
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Inside this Issue:

  • Nurse Shortages: Among Healthcare Systems’ Top Concerns
  • COVID – Still in the Rear View Mirror?
  • Increasing Exposure of Young Children to Illicit Fentanyl
  • Private Equity Continues to Advance in Healthcare
  • Happiness Scores
  • Is Bigger Better? Perhaps That is in the Eyes of The Beholder!
  • What Business Are You In?
  • Effects of Medicaid Expansion
  • Medicare Advantage 2024 Enrollment: Who Won & Who Lost?
  • The Increasing Number of American Centenarians: We Must Be Doing Something Right!
  • New Clinician Experience – A Concern in 2024
  • Rare Diseases Abound
  • Cancer Rates Increase in Younger Adults – The Trends
  • The State of Ambulatory Surgical Centers
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Inside this Issue:

  • Healthcare Costs Challenge Americans
  • As We Look into the Future: Anticipated Trends for 2024 Healthcare Delivery
  • New Cancer Cases Increase by More Than 2M in 2023
  • Gender Dysphoria Diagnoses Rise Nationwide
  • COVID – Not Over Yet
  • A.I. Will Speak With You Now. . .
  • It May Be Lonely Out There
  • The Importance of Sleep – zZ Answer?
  • Physicians at the Table - Unionization
  • Focus on Quality and Safety - With a View of the Future
  • Private Practice is Still in the Ring
  • Nurse Tenure
  • Trends and Facts About Medical Residents in Training – By the #s!
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Inside this Issue:

  • A Look Back and A Look Forward
  • Controversy Over Paying for Telehealth
  • States Wrestling with the Issue of "Doctor" Title
  • Clinician Burnout Fueled
  • Substance Use Disorder (SUD) in Older Adults
  • Paying for Complexity
  • Men Aren't the Same as Women - You Think?
  • Challenges, Challenges
  • Cost of Physician Turnover Continues to Rise
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Focus on Prevention: Anticipating the Ride and the Challenges!
As a captain, one will undoubtedly face problems and challenges that arise as part of an outing on the water.
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Another Year Behind Us – A New Year Before Us
Many of you have probably utilized the last quarter of 2023 in developing strategic plans and budgets for 2024.
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Stealth Spoilers – Some Potentially Lethal!
A day in the boat on the water is usually an opportunity to pursue pleasurable activities – fishing, sailing, sunbathing, good conversation – but sometimes there also come challenges.
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Purpose – An Old Idea?
After a moderate hiatus in publication, by popular request, Ranger Ron is back in the saddle with this newsletter initiating the next set of leadership lessons emphasized in our executive coaching and leadership training programs.
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Unconquerable: The Why, the How, and the What of It All
As leaders we are often challenged to accomplish tasks for the betterment of the people for whom we care and for the organization within which we work.

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