Links and Lessons for K-12 Schools and Hospitals (Jeff Bowen)
Dr. Jeffrey Bowen has served as superintendent of the Yorkshire Pioneer Central School District in western New York, research director for the New York State School Boards Association, and supervisor of on-the-job training in an Air Force hospital. He is a founding member and vice president of the Healthy Community Alliance in Gowanda, New York.
Since 2000, hospital bills have increased at an annual average rate of 10 percent. Surveys show most Americans think that health care costs seriously threaten the economy. Issues of access and quality complicate the picture. Health care is gobbling up 20 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Meanwhile, funding cutbacks are distressing K-12 schools. More than half the states are spending less per student this year compared to last. As thousands of teachers are laid off, school boards and superintendents are reverting to bare-bones core academic programs and nervously depleting fund balances..
Schools and hospitals have many similarities. These include for profit and nonprofit types, boards of directors and CEO’s, differentiated patient or pupil treatments, stringent confidentiality of records, specialized and
Since 2000, hospital bills have increased at an annual average rate of 10 percent. Surveys show most Americans think that health care costs seriously threaten the economy. Issues of access and quality complicate the picture. Health care is gobbling up 20 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Meanwhile, funding cutbacks are distressing K-12 schools. More than half the states are spending less per student this year compared to last. As thousands of teachers are laid off, school boards and superintendents are reverting to bare-bones core academic programs and nervously depleting fund balances..
Schools and hospitals have many similarities. These include for profit and nonprofit types, boards of directors and CEO’s, differentiated patient or pupil treatments, stringent confidentiality of records, specialized and