Workforce
The American Hospital Association offers these resources for addressing health care workforce issues for leaders of hospitals and health systems.
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…
On her first day of work in September at Florida’s Memorial Hospital Miramar, Grisel Fernandez-Bravo, R.N., was given a hospital ID badge displaying her new title: chief executive officer. But Fernandez-Bravo felt that something was missing. So she attached a badge buddy that says “Nurse…
The health care workforce influences nearly every aspect of providing high-quality care. Without an adequate and appropriately trained cadre of health professionals, hospitals will encounter difficulties meeting challenges and opportunities in our rapidly changing field. These challenges and…
A friend of mine who’s a colorectal surgeon in a city far from my home in Utah told me a fascinating story recently about how colonoscopies are performed in the hospital where he practices. He said he’s done over 22,000 colonoscopies without a single bowel perforation, and he regularly gets calls…
Trustee talking points
The vast majority of the nation's hospitals and health systems do not have a nurse on their board.
Adding nurses to boards adds diversity and a broader range of perspectives.
Nurses' experience and skills lead to boards making more effective operational, financial…
Conference
AHA to bring together, policy, health care leaders
Leaders from Congress, policy groups and health care will come together May 7–10 for the American Hospital Association Annual Membership Meeting in Washington, D.C. This year’s theme is “Advancing Health in America.” Media big…
Maureen Swick, R.N., took the helm as chief nursing officer of the American Hospital Association and CEO of the American Organization of Nurse Executives last summer. She had been top nurse executive at Inova health system in Virginia and is a 30-year veteran in the health care field. Swick…
Trustee talking points
Although millennials increasingly fill the workforce, they’re not filling the health care leadership ranks at the pace of previous generations. They also tend to move from job to job more than employees have done in the past.
Something similar is true at…
I work with young people. I mean, really young people. People under 60.
Because I’m not under 60 (don’t ask), I think of myself as something of an expert on how different generations interact in professional settings. And let me tell you, it ain’t pretty.