Author: Dorron Blumberg

Jeffrey M. Welch is appointed to the position of chief executive officer of Florida Medical Center and Tenet’s Miami-Dade Group, which consists of a network of five hospitals. Welch will be responsible for overseeing all strategic, operational and clinical activities at Florida Medical Center, and he will provide oversight and leadership for the other hospitals in the Miami-Dade Group. 

Ever moving forward in the fast-changing landscape of health and healthcare, the foundation has evolved its mission and vision to more strongly reflect our role as a collaborative leader and convener in “Leading Change for Better Health” – our new tagline.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an evaluation report for the first performance year of the Innovation Center’s Next Generation Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Model showing promising early results. Results demonstrated the positive outcomes in terms of quality and costs when providers are responsible for managing to a budget.  For the 2016 performance year, the Next Generation ACO Model generated net savings to Medicare of approximately $62 million while maintaining quality of care for beneficiaries. As part of CMS’s recent “Pathways to Success” proposal, CMS proposed taking many principles from the Next Generation ACO Model and adopting them more broadly for ACOs in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.