Ms. McEwan also said that building or buying that education is an important decision for a hospital or health system to make. HHS plans to build its own and create six classes, she said.
“It takes time to start rolling out the effort,” she said in the presentation, as cited in the report. “If you wait too long, the ramp up time will be extremely difficult. You need to get lots of people on the same page and that doesn’t happen overnight.”
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