CottageHealth CEO

Cottage Health, President & CEO

[CottageHealth CEO @RonWerft]

Great hike with Team Cottage at Summit for Danny today raising money for CADA. Way to go team!!

[CottageHealth CEO @RonWerft]

Home now! Thanks for following our travels!

[CottageHealth CEO @RonWerft]

Significant international self pay clientele. #selfpay

[CottageHealth CEO @RonWerft]

Resource for those wanting to have access to high quality, rapid elective procedures through private insurance or self pay.

[CottageHealth CEO @RonWerft]

Toured the London Clinic with CEO and CMO, a NFP private alternative to the NHS. #londonclinic

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Friday: House of Commons voted down assisted suicide, same day as California Legislature approved it

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Who do you want to make end of life decisions: self, spouse, child, or MD? Varies by age, gender, marital status, and education

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Visited Cisely Saunders Inst. at King's Coll., world's only palliative care research institute. Focus on decision making for end of life

[CottageHealth CEO @RonWerft]

Part of the healing garden in front of St. Thomas' Hospital

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Visited the FN Museum at St. Thomas' Hospital. Really amazing to read her log book reviews of her staff in Crimea.

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Barriers to shift to value/patient oriented systems are surprisingly similar. #populationhealth

[CottageHealth CEO @RonWerft]

Emerging int'l comm. focus on pop health, shift from pay for activity to value/patient oriented system, combines social support, med. care

[CottageHealth CEO @RonWerft]

Dr. Heaversedge heads efforts to address pop disparities, merge social, med. services. Impressive goals for 300k highly diverse residents

[CottageHealth CEO @RonWerft]

Great discussion with Dr. Jonty Heaversedge, Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group.

[CottageHealth CEO @RonWerft]

UK efforts to improve population health include GP led Clinical Commissioning Groups and Vanguard integrated delivery systems.

[CottageHealth CEO @RonWerft]

Met at 10 Downing with PM Special Health Advisor Nick Seddon and host Pam Garside.

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Big social marketing effort underway in the UK to address health issues directly with consumers. #stoptober

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Big population health issues in UK are tobacco, obesity, alcohol, 0-5 year olds, dementia, TB, and antibiotic resistance.

[CottageHealth CEO @RonWerft]

Critical to create valid data, define specific measurable goals, gain community engagement, create incentives. #populationhealth

[CottageHealth CEO @RonWerft]

Met Kevin Fenton, Director of Health and Wellbeing for UK, formerly at CDC, on population health. #populationhealth