Workforce
The American Hospital Association offers these resources for addressing health care workforce issues for leaders of hospitals and health systems.
Hospitalists are at high risk for burnout due to an ever-expanding list of responsibilities. Learn more about the alarming data points and the actions needed to mitigate burnout.
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…
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…
In the era of value-based purchasing, including physicians in the development of strategy has never been more crucial. Your system’s future will depend on the ability of your physicians and related providers to deliver better, more effective care and manage to quality metrics. In the longer…
Medical school enrollment climbs
28%
Increase in first-year enrollment at U.S. medical schools since 2002.
40%
The portion of that growth attributed to 22 new schools.
Slowly and surely, we’ve been burning out a generation of doctors and nurses. The numbers are startling: Over 50 percent of physicians report one or more symptoms of burnout. Over 50 percent of nurses are emotionally exhausted, and 25 percent are clinically depressed. Most doctors won’t recommend…
It was standing room only at a January physician education event in South Carolina as 140-plus providers in the Palmetto Health Quality Collaborative gathered from around the state’s Midlands region. The topic: the Quality Payment Program, which is Medicare’s new physician payment program.
Trustee talking points
As health care transforms, the health care workforce will have to change, too.
Hospital boards should make workforce planning and development part of their strategic process.
Self-assessment is critical for hospitals to begin workforce planning.
A diverse workforce…
Trustee talking points
As hospitals and health systems grow increasingly complex, they are increasingly creating dedicated support staff for their boards.
Full-time governance leaders can devote themselves to serving and advancing board work and a governance program.
There is no…
When the independent primary care group that served Rusk County Memorial Hospital started referring patients to a competing facility in another community, the critical access hospital in Ladysmith, Wis., faced a crisis. The hospital’s market share fell from 43 percent to 21 percent from 2011…