Bruce Chernof, M.D.

Despite all of us having heard at least one story of good medicine gone wrong, coordinating care among skilled nursing facilities (SNF) and home- and community-based services (HCBS) can be a win-win situation.

For people with complex health and social needs, getting better isn’t simply finding and receiving the best care they can access at their local hospital.

When California launched Cal MediConnect, its landmark dual eligible demonstration project, its architects knew the challenge they were accepting.

There’s also recognition that no one can hold out for a new, large entitlement program to fix this problem since the necessary bipartisan support for passage does not exist.

The traditional system of separate Medicare and Medicaid programs is the least person-centered, most fragmented, and least efficient option.

A small set of community-based organizations are seeking to deliver coordinated care to people coping with multiple chronic conditions and functional limitations who wish to live well and safely in the...

It’s time for us to scrap the old model of medicine and adopt what we’re calling “person-centered care,” which focuses on the whole person, and not just the disease.

In my 25 years as a physician, I’ve never heard anyone describe themselves as a “functionally impaired patient with chronic multiple conditions,” a “long-term care recipient”...