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The transition to value-based care is imperative for improving patient care outcomes and lowering costs. To help ensure a successful and sustainable transition to accountable care, providers, health systems, and hospital administrators must ask and answer a fundamental question:

What key steps can healthcare organizations take to make this shift successfully? 

More than 10 years have passed since Dana Lynch, a nurse practitioner (NP), took a daring career leap that put her on the path to becoming a corporate healthcare leader.

When I was welcomed into the medical community at the White Coat Ceremony on my first day of orientation at the New York University School of Medicine, a single piece of advice stood out and I remember it to this day: always listen to the nurses! It was some of the most sound professional guidance I’ve ever received, and I’ve followed it my entire career.

The month of May has historically celebrated nurses and their collective commitment to their patients and their profession. This year, rather than one week culminating on the May 12 birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, nurses week has expanded to National Nurses Month.

It's no secret that primary care providers are stretched increasingly thin.  They're being asked to do more - see more patients, manage more conditions, do more charting - all with limited resources and for less money.  The constant pressures of reaching RVU goals by churning through more patients weighs continuously on both provider and patient satisfaction, and as a result, the norm is too often an abrupt ten-minute patient visit.