If Madeline Albright Can Do It...
"These are very complex issues, but it is really all about relationships." ~Madeline Albright , first female United States Secretary of State Whether international relations, law building or health care delivery it is all about the relationships. Not only the relationships between insurance companies and the insured, but also between insurance companies and the uninsured, between physicians, between physicians and nurses, between risk managers and the patients who walk through the door. Some of these entities never cross paths in person but they have a direct impact on each other's choices an decisions in medical care. My youngest son spent a full week in the NICU before coming home. The twenty four hour access to their new babies that parents are offered on 8 Ravdin at The University of Pennsylvania NICU allows relationships to be built. Relationships are built between parents and the clinicians, parents and other parents, and especially between parents and their n...