Resources

Learn more about enhancing the value of the care patients receive.

ValU Care Redesign in the News

The UCLA Health magazine U and the UCLA newsroom have featured our work several times:

• Robert A. Cherry, chief medical and quality officer at UCLA Health, discusses value, quality and our MOVERS(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) strategy in Change Agent(Link opens in new window).
• In Finding the Right Path(Link is external) (Link opens in new window), UCLA Health experts describe why reducing unwarranted variations and establishing consistency are so important.

Other Coverage of Value in Healthcare

Adding value to healthcare goes beyond the walls of UCLA Health. For a look at the broader environment, read:

• "Modeling Financial Outcomes and Quantifiying Risk in Episode-Based Payment Models"(Link downloads document), an article that sought to develop a method to prospectively quanitfy the finanacial implications of value-based alternative payments. 
• "The Strategy that will Fix Health Care"(Link is external) (Link opens in new window), an article published in the Harvard Business Review that outlines the larger changes in healthcare and the need for value.
• IHI White papers(Link is external) (Link opens in new window) from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, which cover topics such as value, quality, safety and patient satisfaction.
• "Financial Margins for Prostate Cancer Surgery: Quantifying the Impact of Modifiable Cost Inputs in an Episode Based Reimbursement Model"(Link is external), which seeks to quantify the impact of modifiable cost inputs on institutional financial margins in an episode based payment model for prostate cancer surgery. 
• "Do Surgeons Win or Lose When Medicare Bundles Payments?"(Link is external), which explores whether "bundled payments" are good for hospitals, doctors, labs, therapists and other professionals providing care.