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Healing Hospitals – Get ready. Get set. by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy One of Johnny Carson’s funniest ongoing “bits” (He was the guy who was on the Tonight Show before Jay Leno) was that of Carnac the Magnificent. Carnac was ... Read on »

Thanksgiving and CHANGE… by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy One of the sometimes-challenging realities of Thanksgiving is that it forces us to look into the microscope of our personal time here on earth and acknowledge the change that ... Read on »

Another Day. Another “A” by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy One of my many college roommates, Mark, graduated with a perfect, straight A GPA. In those days the grade point average indicating perfection was a 4.0. He worked harder t ... Read on »

Creating Functional Healing Hospitals by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Why Healing Hospitals? Transparency. Human Dignity. Patient Advocacy. All of these represent a new way of administering health care in this country. Our industrialized mod ... Read on »

On the Road to Healing Hospitals by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As I was moving some books around today, I noticed a piece of paper that had fallen out of an old notebook, the paper was titled, growth. Although the year does not stand out ... Read on »

Healing Hospitals by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy For the past several months, I have been searching for a new blog title. Nick’s Blog, nickjacobs.org, Ask A Hospital President.com, Taking the Hell out of Healthcare . ... Read on »

The Fate of Modern Day Gladiators by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The warrior in the picture is my buddy and grandson, Jude. He is about to go to war for candy. It’s his Halloween costume, but a fitting example of a warrior, and one th ... Read on »

Planetree or Bust! by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I have been unequivocally one of the most loyal supporters of the PlanetreePhilosophy of care in the entire world. My former place of employment was the third Planetree hospi ... Read on »

Interesting Words to Think About by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The time has come to realize that the old habits, the old arguments, are irrelevant to the challenges faced by our people. They lead nations to act in opposition to the very g ... Read on »

What the Heck is Going On? by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Over the years it has been my aspiration to try very hard to help you laugh, and, regardless of the depth of the topic, I’ve always looked to find humor somewhere in the ... Read on »

Healthcare Reform or Health Insurance Reform? by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy President Obama’s eloquent address to Congress on his proposed changes to the U.S. healthcare system was fraught with ambiguous issues that will certainly provide a feed ... Read on »

Data Breach by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy About two years ago, I had a call from my local bank asking if I had purchased a washer and dryer . . . in Barcelona, Spain. Somewhere, someone had gained access to my Charge ... Read on »

Getting Money… Finding Money… Saving Money by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As a hospital CEO, one of the greatest challenges that I faced was that of resource allocation. Because my personal goals included making our organization:A facility that beca ... Read on »

Nine Trillion Dollars in the Hole? by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Let me be the first to admit that I was and am all about change. Change has been the only consistent thing in my life. Today, however, when the deficit projection was reveale ... Read on »

Thinking At the Beach by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In January, my journey to create a new division for SunStone Consulting, LLC, began, and, with the economy in a deep slump, it appeared to be a journey fraught with almost ins ... Read on »

Loyalty and The Life of a CEO by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Since stepping back from my CEO role, I have had time to reflect upon the toll that a position like that can take on any individual regardless of the thickness of their epider ... Read on »

The List? by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Okay, so if you are in healthcare administration and you have any interest in what’s going on in my world, just take a quick read of this descriptive list of services fr ... Read on »

Non-traditional Thinking Pays Off by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Who would ever consider having 24-hour ’round-the-clock family visiting in a hospital; beds for loved ones to stay overnight; deli-style counters on the patient floors t ... Read on »

Don’t Drink the Water? by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Ever wonder about this whole water, nutrition, thrown-away-or-passed-through-pill thing? I was talking to a friend who was explaining her box filled with powered, bio accessi ... Read on »

Happy 4th of July by Nicholas J. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Recently, the youngest child, a wife and mom in her 30’s, got a new job that came with a company cell phone, a Blackberry. The problem was that she had a “Friend ... Read on »

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