The following is a guest blog from Anthony Cirillo:  Accountable care organizations and medical homes are terms being bantered about with reform. An accountable care organization (ACO) would consist of a group of healthcare entities that share responsibility for the quality and cost of care to a defined population. People I have ...

In my last post on Sara Gruen's book ''Water for Elephants,'' I discussed the book's main character, 93-year-old Jacob, who lives in a long-term care facility. In the chapter where Jacob recounts his family's decision to send him to the facility, he says the dialogue between him and his children went like this: ''It's not a nursing home, they ...