News Release: Emory Healthcare , School of Medicine , School of Nursing , School of Public Health , Winship Cancer Institute , Woodruff Health Sciences
Jan. 20, 2009
Emory Pushes to Move Health Care Reform Forward
View "Three Steps to Health Care Reform" video. 4 min., 19 sec.With President-Elect Barack Obama taking office as President today, health care issues quickly will take center stage. Emory University's Fred Sanfilippo, MD, PhD, is calling for the nation to work to improve its broken health care delivery system.
Over the course of the past decade, the need to reform - or more accurately to transform - this system has become an increasingly important and timely issue, says Sanfilippo, executive vice president for health affairs at Emory University, CEO of Emory's Woodruff Health Sciences Center and chairman of Emory Healthcare.
"During this period, the many problems in delivering high-quality, high-value health care have grown significantly in size and complexity," says Sanfilippo. "The current economic environment has only heightened the importance and urgency of the need for change.
"True health system transformation will be successful only when all sectors - public and private, state and federal, employer and employee, academic and corporate - come to the table for our nation's greater good," says Sanfilippo. "The best and most sustainable solutions will also come when we fully appreciate not only the problems but also the many opportunities at hand that should drive health care transformation."
To view a video message from Sanfilippo outlining potential solutions to the health care crisis and identifying key priorities for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center in the coming year, visit http://whsc.emory.edu/home/multimedia/videos/sanfilippo-video1.html.
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