Bridges to Health and Healthcare: New solutions for improving axxess and services

by Ruby K. Payne, Terie Dreussi-Smith, Lucy Y. Shaw, Jan Young

Overview

Bridges to Health and Healthcare: New solutions for improving access and services provides a fresh opportunity to improve health outcomes. Healthcare providers will learn to:

- Engage and better serve individuals across the economic spectrum
– Reduce costs while achieving more successful patient outcomes
– Communicate complex medical information more clearly
– Design services to account for increasing diversity within communities
– Increase effectiveness within successful, patient-centered care initiatives

Public health organizations, communities, and governments will learn to:

- Reduce the health gap and improve outcomes for all, especially those at risk
– Build sustainable neighborhoods and communities coordinated with all stakeholders
– Engage all stakeholders in planning new practices for healthier communities
– Increase community social capital and cohesion linked to improved population health
– Provide collective impact models to drive population research at the community level

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149990511
Publisher:	aha Process Inc
Publication date:	06/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	230
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Dr. Ruby K. Payne, PhD, is founder of aha! Process and an author, speaker, publisher, and career educator. She is a leading expert on the mindsets of economic class and on crossing socioeconomic lines in education and work. Recognized internationally for her foundational book, A Framework for Understanding Poverty, now in its 5th revised edition (1996, 2013) which has sold more than 1,500,000 copies, Dr. Payne has helped students and adults of all economic backgrounds achieve academic, professional, and personal success. Dr. Payne has written or co-authored more than a dozen books. Another publication is Bridges Out of Poverty (1999, revised 2009), co-authored with Philip E. DeVol and Terie Dreussi-Smith, which offers strategies for building sustainable communities.
Terie Dreussi-Smith, MAEd, is an educator, trainer, consultant, and author who formerly worked as a public school teacher and adjunct faculty member for several colleges. In 1996 she was one of the first professionals to adapt Ruby Payne’s A Framework for Understanding Poverty from K–12 education to community environments and social service settings. This helped Ms. Dreussi-Smith make the transition into her role as co-author of both Bridges Out of Poverty (1999) and Bridges to Health and Healthcare (2014).
Lucy Y. Shaw, MBA, is a senior-level executive with a master’s degree in business administration. She has progressive leadership experience in both healthcare and banking. Ms. Shaw rose through the ranks from bedside nursing in one of the largest and most prestigious private hospitals in the world to the position of president and CEO at The Regional Medical Center of Memphis, a “safety net” hospital with four world-class centers of excellence. Ms. Shaw is well-known for her expertise in financing and managing the care of the underserved. Her skills and abilities in those areas brought her before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee on several occasions as president of the National Association of Public Hospitals.
Dr. Jan Young, DNSc, executive director of the Assisi Foundation of Memphis, TN, has had a distinguished career in healthcare, education, the military and philanthropy. As a nurse, she served as a clinician, administrator, educator, and researcher with a primary career focus in clinical and administrative practice She has worked as a management consultant, served as either adjunct or guest faculty for local academic institutions, and maintained a private clinical practic