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Vallerie Gleason wants to focus on keeping people out of the hospital.
That sounds counter-intuitive coming from a hospital CEO, but Gleason understands the health care industry in general is moving toward a model under the federal health care reform law that rewards providers for keeping people healthy.
“So much of the health care population for hospitals is going to be population management,” says Gleason the newly appointed CEO of Newton Medical Center.
I reported on the change Wednesday…