It led to numerous proposals from across the political spectrum to hold hospitals and clinicians more accountable for reducing overtreatment, undertreatment, and mistreatment of patients.
For the concept of making precinct police captains personally accountable for reducing crime, read the grading of schools and firing of failing principals.
His strategy was twofold: make officers accountable for reducing crime in their precincts through the careful use of statistics, and change the atmosphere in which crime occurs by going after seemingly minor offenses.
At a federal level, the government has thankfully shifted its position on justice targets, which will hold governments accountable for reducing Indigenous incarceration, and has urged all states and territories to adopt them.
The law authorizes new forms of Medicare and Medicaid payment to encourage the development of "medical homes" and "accountable care organizations" — doctors' offices and medical systems that get financial benefits for being more accessible to patients, better organized, and accountable for reducing the over-all costs of care.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced yesterday that the Department of Education would aggressively ferret out and punish disruptive students in the public schools, particularly those in schools with high rates of criminal violence, and hold the principals more accountable for reducing disciplinary problems within their schools.
The Uptime Institute's research indicates that fewer than 8% of IT organizations have someone specifically accountable for reducing energy consumption.
"States should be held accountable for reducing the backlog on repair needs before they're given latitude to spend that money on something else," Goldberg said.
The goal of this agreement is to hold nations accountable for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and to establish a long-term protection plan for our environment.
And once we're willing to buy produce that occupies this middle ground, we can use our buying power to hold growers accountable for reducing their fertilizer applications.
