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...More than ever, we depend upon the nonprofit sector to address problems that government and for-profit institutions have found hard to solve," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in an interview on Wednesday. "Yet, for their powerful presence in our daily lives, nonprofit organizations--taken as a whole--have received little concentrated attention from our universities...
Included among speakers at the conference are Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld '66; Peter F. Drucker, honorary chair of the Peter Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management.; Robert Erburu, chair of the J. Paul Getty Trust and former CEO of Times Mirror Company; and Millard Fuller, former president of the International Habitat For Humanity...
Oddly, Choice Plus was not created in reaction to any bitter consumer backlash. Minnesota law requires all managed-care plans to be nonprofit, so there was no suspicion that patients were being shortchanged for the benefit of Wall Street. And 87% of the state's citizens tell pollsters they are satisfied with their medical care. But workers did grumble about cumbersome approval procedures, the need to change physicians whenever companies changed medical plans, and limited choices...
...magazines, have attempted to rank the HMOs, but their various methods of scoring are at cross-purposes--and may have little to do with the quality of care. For starters, some HMOs have simply declined to participate in these surveys or submit to the accreditation process established by the nonprofit National Committee for Quality Assurance. Moreover, a recent Massachusetts study found that high member "satisfaction" rates reflect good customer relations, not necessarily good medicine...
...several years. The plans have not been eager to compile these data. But now some of the biggest consumers of health care--groups like the American Association of Retired Persons and General Motors--are pressuring managed-care companies to participate in independent outcome studies coordinated by the nonprofit Foundation for Accountability, in Portland, Oregon. Watchdog groups have encouraged the industry to adopt uniform standards for what a plan must disclose to consumers until those data are available. In December the American Association of Health Plans began instructing its members to provide, on request, clear information about...