Talk:Geisinger Health System

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Someone with time/knowledge of Geisinger should fix this up, as it was obviously written by Geisinger PR. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.254.118.131 (talk) 15:07, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Why doesn't Geisinger put down in writing what it contenders in it's commercials. That they were formed in the face of the 1918 pandemic. rem486 Rem486 (talk) 20:27, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

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Edit request
Please change “Geisinger Health System” page title to just “Geisinger”

Explanation of issue: Geisinger Health System shortened its name to Geisinger

Source: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/geisinger-shortens-name-nixes-all-drinks-with-sugar.html Mlsobieski (talk) 22:33, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

See also, the organization's 'about pages' at https://www.geisinger.org/about-geisinger and https://www.geisinger.org/about-geisinger/news-and-media/for-media Additional media sources: https://www.dailyitem.com/news/local_news/geisinger-cuts-its-name-sugary-beverages/article_3df4a856-99a7-55cb-9a69-6096284ad206.html and http://www.wkok.com/from-geisinger-health-system-to-just-geisinger/ Mlsobieski (talk) 20:35, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Reply 8-MAR-2019

 * Please provide a reference from the subject organization itself for confirmation of this name change. When ready to proceed with the requested information, please reopen this request by altering the template's answer parameter to read from yes to no. Thank you!

Regards,  Spintendo   22:57, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Reply 12-MAR-2019

 * Thank you for providing the additional references. Unfortunately, it's not entirely clear from the websites you've provided that the name change has taken place as you've described. The subject's own website uses the following at the bottom of its web pages: © 2019 Geisinger Health
 * To ensure that it's appropriate, the request to change the article's title should be submitted using the  template specifically as a controversial move request process requiring discussion amongst the wider community.
 * A controversial requested move typically takes about 7 days to complete.
 * Before taking this step, please ensure that you are well acquainted with the requested move process by thoroughly reviewing its procedures.
 * More information can be found at requested moves. Regards, Spintendo  23:02, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

Edit request
Please add/edit Geisinger's history section:

Geisinger was founded in 1912 by Abigail Geisinger, who at age 85 recognized the need for advanced healthcare in her rural central Pennsylvania community. The first hospital opened earlier than expected in Danville on September 15, 1915, to treat those affected by a typhoid outbreak in the area.

Geisinger’s flagship facility is Geisinger Medical Center, and the system includes 12 other hospital campuses: Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre, Geisinger Community Medical Center, Geisinger Janet Weis Children's Hospital, Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital, Geisinger Lewistown Hospital, Geisinger Woodbine, Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital, Geisinger Holy Spirit, Geisinger Jersey Shore, Geisinger Marworth Treatment Center and AtlantiCare Health System, a member of Geisinger. There are more than 250 clinical sites throughout Geisinger’s footprint in central, north-central, northeast, western and south-central Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

From 2001 through early 2015, Glenn Steele, Jr., MD, PhD, served as Geisinger’s president and chief executive officer. Known for pioneering innovative healthcare services for Geisinger’s patients and health plan members, including the ProvenCare model, Dr. Steele’s emphasis on value-based care and quality is still present in the health system’s care delivery today. The author or co-author of close to 500 scientific and professional articles, Dr. Steele has a clinical background in the treatment of liver cancer, colorectal cancer surgery, the cell biology of gastrointestinal cancer and pre-cancer. Prior to his time at Geisinger, he served in roles including dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine and as chairman of the Department of Surgery at New England Deaconess Hospital. In 2016, Geisinger Medical Center announced the naming of the Glenn D. Steele Jr. Hospital for Advanced Medicine, and the health system also named its Steele Institute for Healthcare Innovation after Dr. Steele.

When Dr. Steele left Geisinger in 2015, David Feinberg, MD, MBA, joined Geisinger as president and CEO. With a background in psychiatry, Dr. Feinberg came to Geisinger after a career at UCLA Health, where he served as CEO of UCLA’s hospitals and the president of UCLA Health System. Dr. Feinberg implemented the health system’s ProvenExperience program, a satisfaction-guaranteed patient refund program, in 2015. The year after this program’s introduction, Geisinger issued $400,000 to unhappy patients. He was selected third on Modern Healthcare’s “50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders” in 2017 and named one of 2018’s “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.” [18] In 2019, Dr. Feinberg left Geisinger to pursue a role with Google to help develop and expand its healthcare strategy.

In December 2018, Jaewon Ryu, MD, JD, was named interim president and CEO of Geisinger. Serving as the health system’s executive vice president and chief medical officer since 2016, Dr. Ryu holds an undergraduate degree from Yale University and medical and law degrees from The University of Chicago. Dr. Ryu’s internship and residency training was in emergency medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Before coming to Geisinger, he was the president of Integrated Care Delivery for Humana in Louisville, Kentucky, and held various leadership roles at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System in Chicago, Kaiser Permanente, and in government at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and serving as a White House Fellow at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Explanation of issue: The existing history is missing up-to-date and pertinent information about Geisinger's history

Sources: https://www.dailyitem.com/dr-foss-helps-to-develop-the-finest-hospital-ever-built/article_1d6bc562-7a72-5b5c-9712-2c3532b525a4.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/a-century-of-innovation-pennsylvanias-geisinger-health-system-celebrating-100-years-of-excellence-in-2015-300015622.html https://www.geisinger.org/patient-care/find-a-location https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140728/NEWS/307289925/steele-to-step-down-as-geisinger-ceo-next-year http://shoutengine.com/CreatingaNewHealthcare/emancipating-value-in-healthcare-provencare-wit-53871 https://www.haponline.org/Newsroom/News/ID/1004/Former-Geisinger-Health-System-CEO-Glenn-D-Steele-Jr-MD-PhD-Earns-National-Innovation-Award https://mfdp.med.harvard.edu/cff/curriculum/leadership-forums/speakers/glenn-d-steele-jr-md-phd https://www.dailyitem.com/dr-glenn-d-steele-jr-hospital-for-advanced-medicine/image_49ed51f0-163e-11e5-8817-ffc3775cfa33.html https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/lists/66-hospitals-and-health-systems-with-innovation-programs-2018.html https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150223/NEWS/302239970/ucla-s-feinberg-named-geisinger-ceo https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/geisinger-ceo-david-feinberg-talks-1-year-of-patient-refunds.html https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/what-geisinger-ceo-david-feinberg-accomplished-leaving-google https://www.modernhealthcare.com/awards/50-most-influential-physician-executives-2017 https://www.modernhealthcare.com/awards/100-most-influential-people-healthcare-2018 https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-executive-moves/geisinger-taps-cmo-as-interim-ceo-6-things-to-know.html

Mlsobieski (talk) 18:28, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Reply 22-MAR-2019
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^ Sjöblad, Tristan. . Academic Press, 2018, p. 1. ^ Harinath, Paramjit. , Science, 51(78):46. ^ Uemura, Shū. . Academic Press, 2018, p. 2. 

In the example above the references have been formatted according to Citation Style 1, which shows the author, the source's name, date, etc. Also, the ref tags are placed in the exact location where the text which they reference resides. As Wikipedia is a volunteer project, edit requests such yours are generally expected to have this formatting done before the request is submitted for review.

Kindly rewrite your edit request so that it aligns more with the second example shown in the collapsed section above, and feel free to re-submit that edit request at your earliest convenience. If you have any questions about this formatting please don't hesitate to ask myself or another editor. Regards, Spintendo  23:09, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Edit request
In the history of Geisinger section, please add the following information:

From 2001 through mid 2015, Glenn Steele served as Geisinger’s president and chief executive officer.

Recognized for an emphasis on value-based care and quality, Dr. Steele introduced the health system’s ProvenCare model in 2006, which identifies most appropriate treatment for specific conditions in order to deliver better care at a lower cost.

When Dr. Steele left Geisinger in 2015, David Feinberg, MD, MBA, joined Geisinger as president and CEO.

Dr. Feinberg launched the health system’s ProvenExperience program in 2015, offering to refund out-of-pocket charges, such as copays and deductibles, to patients unsatisfied with their experience. The year after this program’s introduction, Geisinger issued $400,000 to unhappy patients.

In 2019, Dr. Feinberg left Geisinger to pursue a role with Google to help develop and expand its healthcare strategy.

In December 2018, Jaewon Ryu was named interim president and CEO of Geisinger. Prior to the announcement, he served as the health system’s executive vice president and chief medical officer since 2016.

Explanation of edit request: Added relevant, updated information to include in Geisinger’s history. Mlsobieski (talk) 21:02, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Reply 29-MAR-2019
Spintendo 21:27, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) ✅ Information on Steele's tenure was added.
 * 2) ❌ The claims regarding Steele's introduction of "better care at lower costs" is promotional, and wasn't added.
 * 3) ✅ Information on Feinberg's tenure was added.
 * 4) ❌ The claims regarding Feinberg's role in giving money to "unhappy patients" is promotional, and wasn't added.
 * 5) ❌ Information on Feinberg's work post-Geisinger is not relevant to the article.
 * 6) ✅ Information on Ryu's tenure was added.

Edit request
Information to be added or removed from the page's research section: The current director of Geisinger's Center for Clinical Studies is Peter B. Berger.

Suggested edit: In 2010, David H. Ledbetter, PhD, was named as the health system’s first full-time chief scientific officer and executive vice president.

Explanation: Peter B. Berger is no longer in this role.Mlsobieski (talk) 18:56, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Reply 10-APR-2019
Regards, Spintendo  19:29, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) The claim regarding Mr. Berger was omitted.
 * 2) The claim regarding Mr. Ledbetter was not added, per WP:NOTADIRECTORY. Information on senior executives such as President, CEO are noteworthy. Other lower-level executives such as chief scientific officer are not. The only other place for this information is occluded, as the Infobox hospital template does not contain a key people parameter.

Edit request
Information to be edited in top section: Geisinger Health System (GHS) is a regional, nonprofit. Geisinger is known for programs including its ProvenCare® best-practice approach to maximize quality, safety and value ; ProvenHealth Navigator®, an evidence-based approach with team-based coordinated primary care ; Springboard Health® population health program to improve the health of an entire community ; ProvenExperience™ to provide refunds to patients unhappy with their care experience ; and Geisinger’s MyCode® Community Health Initiative, the largest healthcare system-based precision health project in the world. With more than 215,000 volunteer participants enrolled, MyCode is conducting extensive research and returning medically actionable results to participants.

As of 2018, Geisinger has been named in Becker’s Hospital Review’s “100 Great Hospitals in America” list five times in six years. It is also noted as one of the five most innovative hospitals by the Becker’s Hospital Review, earning eight percent of the vote of hospital leaders in the United States.

Explanation of issue: Added pertinent information about Geisinger to provide a more comprehensive overview.Mlsobieski (talk) 11:58, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Declined: Wikipedia is not for promoting something. Jannik Schwaß (talk) 12:15, 18 May 2019 (UTC)

Geisinger Health System Update Proposals October 2021
Hi, I’m an employee at Geisinger Health System. This article is out of date and incomplete. Can a volunteer editor please review these suggested edits? I have modelled my suggestions based on the Good Article for similar healthcare providers such as UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, UPMC Presbyterian, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and Lurie Children's Hospital. Thank you for your help. HealthcareHistorian (talk) 20:07, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

1.  The article lacks an About section and relevant subsections to describe the organizational structure of the company, what it does, etc. All the GAs for healthcare providers I could find, including those mentioned above, have an About section. All the sources are from the press, except for one, from the Geisinger website, but I use it only for “straightforward, descriptive statements of facts”, which I think Wikipedia policy allows under WP: Primary. Below is language for the proposed “About” section, to be placed below “History”:

About

Geisinger Health System serves over half a million patients across multiple states in the Northeastern United States. Geisinger’s primary geographical area of coverage is central and northeastern Pennsylvania. As of September 2021, it operated 11 hospitals as well as a number of smaller clinical care facilities and pharmacies. In July 2020, the organization operated 13 hospitals.

The organization offers its own internal health insurance plans to the public within its coverage area. Geisinger also conducts medical research, and it operates a medical school, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, and the Geisinger Lewistown School of Nursing. The organization also has a charitable arm, the Geisinger Foundation.

'''The Morning Call article from 1987 is not accessible on the internet. But here is an excerpt of that article:'''

“The Geisinger health system, founded in 1915, serves a 22,000- square-mile area of central and northeastern Pennsylvania.”

2. I propose that the current “Quality and Cost-Containment” section be renamed as a subsection -- “Programs and Healthcare Practices” -- a heading that allows for more relevant information -- and moved into the proposed “About” section. Consolidating healthcare system information under “About” is in keeping with the structure of the healthcare GAs I found. For the proposed replacement text, I have removed excessive details while adding the basic information about the clinical operations of Geisinger Health System. I have also removed statements without citations or which rely on unreliable sources.

Programs and Practices

Geisinger launched a patient satisfaction program called ProvenExperience in 2015, which offers refunds of co-pays or deductibles for patients unhappy with their medical treatment or other aspects of care. In 2017, it started a program called the Fresh Food Farmacy, which provides healthy foods and nutrition advice, at no cost, to low-income patients at high risk for obesity-related diseases. In 2018, Geisinger introduced a program that drives patients unable to arrange their own transportation to medical appointments or pharmacies.

Geisinger incorporates electronic health records (EHRs) and genomics into its healthcare practices. Geisinger first adopted EHRs in 1996. By 2002 it was using EHRs for a service called Tel-a-Nurse that allowed patients to receive medical advice over the phone from nurses informed by EHRs. In 2007, Geisinger opened a genetic biobank and screening program called MyCode, which sequences the genetic code of volunteer patients to screen them for risk markers of diseases. As of 2018, MyCode had obtained genetic information from over 200,000 patient volunteers. This bank of genetic material has also been used for medical research purposes.


 * ✅. I omitted the July 2020 fact from the 'About' section because it seemed extraneous, given the previous sentence in the first paragraph. Any other edits were language-based or based on facts from the sources provided. Thanks, Heartmusic678 (talk) 13:07, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

3. I propose that the “List of Facilities” section of the current article be moved and renamed “Facilities” as a subsection in the proposed “About” section. There is no source now for any facility, so I propose adding a primary source to the introductory sentence (acceptable since this is such straightforward information). And, please add two more hospitals that are missing from this list. FYI, there is a multi-facility GA I found that uses a list format just like this: Northwestern Memorial Hospital,

Facilities

As of August 2021, there are 11 major facilities operated by Geisinger Health System :

Geisinger Schuylkill County in Orwigsburg, PA Geisinger Marworth in Waverly, PA

4. I also propose moving and rewriting the existing Research section into a subsection of the proposed “About” section. This placement of “Research” inside “About” follows the structure of existing GAs about healthcare providers, including Lurie Children's Hospital and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. I’ve rewritten the proposed subsection so it only includes more reliably-sourced research and adds a new reliable source for the research already described.

Research

In 1967, Geisinger was awarded a federal grant to study the effectiveness of medications to prevent heart attacks or their recurrence. In 1974, the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation awarded a grant to Geisinger to study the potential treatment of Raynaud syndrome with drugs normally used at that time to treat high blood pressure. .

Geisinger has a database of electronic health records (EHR), and set up a genetics research program called MyCode in 2007. The use of EHR allows longitudinal study of patient outcomes, in a study called "DiscovEHR". The program uses gene sequencing by the biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. The National Institutes of Health gave a grant of US$5.5 million to the research program in 2016. The program was expanded to whole exome sequencing in 2018. Using genetic data from patient volunteers stored in its MyCode program, Geisinger has conducted or collaborated on genetic research studies aimed at identifying potential links between genetic variants and higher or lower risk factors for certain diseases. Geisinger contributed data from 35,000 of its patients to a 2016 Johns Hopkins University study that demonstrated linkages between asthma and fracking. In 2021, a Regeneron-led study that was partially based on genetic data from the MyCode biobank was able to identify a genetic variant that appears to lower obesity risk.


 * ✅ with minor edits for language. I didn't see MyCode mentioned in this source, so I added this one and this one in addition. Heartmusic678 (talk) 13:01, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

5. I propose adding a new sub-section called “Education” to the proposed “About” section. This is the same structure as the GA for UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. I propose consolidating two sentences at the bottom of the History section, about the medical school, into “Education.” The two sentences to be removed from “History” begin ‘In order to "fix the primary care shortage facing the organisation…’”

Education

On January 1, 2017, Geisinger acquired a Scranton, PA, medical college called The Commonwealth School of Medicine. Opened in 2008, the school had struggled financially prior to its acquisition by Geisinger and had debts of about $40 million, which Geisinger agreed to assume as part of the deal. Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine received a $3.4 million grant from the federal government in 2017 to promote diversity and provide opportunities for disadvantaged minorities. In order to "fix the primary care shortage facing the organisation", Geisinger announced a program in 2019 to cover full tuition plus a $2,000 monthly stipend for 40 students, with the recipients committing to work at Geisinger for at least four years after completing their residency.

Thank you for your consideration. HealthcareHistorian (talk) 20:07, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅. Heartmusic678 (talk) 12:00, 8 November 2021 (UTC)