Preserving Rural Healthcare
Rural Hospital Closures
 Sarju Bharucha, JD, Editor-in-Chief 
“The greatest asset of a nation is the health of its people,”  Dr. William J. Mayo.  Brothers, Dr. Will and Dr. Charlie, along with their father- Dr. William Worrall Mayo - were known as pioneer physicians who believed in patient first. They built their founding healthcare principles in rural America and cared for all patients. In this issue, we examine how rural healthcare has suffered under Obamacare and how its crushing regulations have ignored and harmed the greatest asset of our nation-its people. In Rural Healthcare- Oh, Where’s It Gone? Dr. Yisrael Safeek examines how there have been more rural hospital closures under Obamacare than in recent history. Furthermore, we interview Peter Sirois, President & CEO of Northern Maine Medical Center and Chairman of Maine Hospital Association in Preserving Rural Healthcare.  
Preserving Rural Healthcare
87 rural hospitals have closed since 2010, the year of Obamacare
​​​Full, in-depth interview by The SafeCare Group CEO & Chairman Yisrael M. Safeek, MD, MBA, CPE, FACPE with Peter Sirois, MS, President & CEO, Northern Maine Medical Center and Immediate Past Chairman of Maine Hospital Association.
Rural Healthcare
Oh, Where’s It Gone?
​​​If it were the mission of the architects of Obamacare to destroy rural hospitals, and maim rural Americans, they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Rural Americans would be ill-advised to have a MI, stroke, or sepsis. 
Latin America's Plight
Socialist Healthcare
​​Since the 1990s, all universal healthcare systems in Latin America ‒ Cuba, Brazil, Costa Rica ‒ suffered from shortages of resources, a deterioration of public services and providers, and a growing presence of the private sector in social policies.
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Methodist Hospital of Southern California
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 100 SafeCare Hospitals®
​Congratulations to Methodist Hospital of Southern California on achieving 100 SafeCare Hospitals four years in a row and achieving top 1% in the nation overall for low infections, low complications, low readmissions, high patient satisfaction, and best value.
2018 100 SafeCare Hospitals® Report
Recognizing Healthcare Excellence®
​For the past five years, The SafeCare Group has monitored the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare delivered by US hospitals. The 2018 100 SafeCare Hospitals Report highlights significant trends in US healthcare delivery.
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The Patients Perspective
Communication With Doctors
​​The result of negative experience in communication was a lack of trust in the physician, worse assessment of healthcare quality, excessive use of services, as well as frustration, depreciation and less motivation to follow the physician’s recommendations.
Improving Opioid Prescribing
Turning to Practice Guidelines
​​In the USA, interdisciplinary pain clinics are now the exception rather than the rule, and the number of board certified pain physicians cannot manage the approximate 100 million patients with chronic pain.
Predictive Analytics
Role in Adverse Drug Events
Adverse drug events are injury resulting from medical interventions related to a drug, and they have been implicated in both increasing costs and time in the spent in the hospital.
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Right Data, Right Place, Right Time, Right Price
SafeCareSoft®
There’s no shortage of EMR data. The key to success is to have the right data, analyzed and translated into meaningful insights to help your organization’s ranking and accreditation. 
Doctors and Big Pharma
Sponsored Training & Shared Aspirations
News stories fuel public fear that interactions with industry are eroding physicians’ professionalism. Yet, if pharma-sponsored education is no longer allowed, we may witness tomorrow’s doctors practicing yesterday’s medicine.
Multiplicity of Disease
A Most Pressing Healthcare Challenge
​​While much attention has been directed at the management of chronic disease, it is the multiplicity of disease rather than the chronicity that increases demands on healthcare systems.
After An Illness
Reintegrating Patients To The Workplace
​​Special arrangements made by the employer such as gradual return to work, which all doctors can recommend, facilitate the return to work of patients in general.
Aligning Healthcare Incentives
Preventing Adverse Events
​​Leaders in organizations should provide the resources necessary for improvements in safety including both staff and technical infrastructure.
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