Workforce
Mar 6, 2023
This document, developed by AHA Trustee Services and AHA’s Behavioral Health teams, intends to educate and raise awareness for trustees about suicide prevention and the role that hospital and health system boards can play in this very important public health issue.
Oct 7, 2022
The clinical workforce shortage is one of the most pressing problems in health care. Bold actions now are necessary to mitigate the challenge, and boards have a critical role to play in overseeing change. By giving clinicians the support they need to work with purpose and passion, health systems…
Feb 25, 2021
Hospital boards can think creatively about how to generate value for their patients and communities.
Oct 14, 2020
Assembling a team of health care providers from diverse professional backgrounds has the power to improve value for hospitals and for patients particularly during COVID-19.
Feb 12, 2018
A medical staff development plan identifies your community's needs for physicians. It establishes your hospital or health system's physician need and recruitment priorities. And it addresses other medical staff development issues. An up-to-date, contemporary medical staff development plan is…
Jan 17, 2018
A critical need exists to elevate the discussion about workforce planning and development to ensure it becomes a standing, rather than crisis-driven, component of comprehensive strategic planning for hospitals and health systems.
Nov 13, 2017
As a 40-year-old former driver for Meals on Wheels, Brooke Wagen is not a typical medical school student. While her classmates in their 20s might be occupied with settling into their first year of studies and debating which specialty to enter, Wagen already has a concrete vision of how she’ll use…
Nov 13, 2017
Long-established medical schools are taking big leaps in moving toward a curriculum focused on value and communities.
The A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona partnered with the National Association of Community Health Centers to create a total-immersion training model.…
Oct 9, 2017
Burnout takes its toll on physicians. It can also take its toll on health care, and it’s become a growing concern for hospitals and health systems across the country.
Physician burnout — marked by emotional exhaustion, “depersonalization” and a lack of feeling of accomplishment — has a…
Oct 9, 2017
More than five years after her patient died, a physician is still haunted by her role in his final days.
Earlier this year, in an anonymous TED podcast, the physician told her story. Her patient — whom she called Mr. W — was screaming that he wanted to leave the hospital. Instead of using her…