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 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…
Physician engagement in value-based care is an increasingly critical issue for health care boards. Many organizations are focusing on financial incentives to encourage physicians to move the needle toward value, but remuneration is a blunt tool and only one among many that can influence …
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A growing number of small and rural hospitals, unable to recruit or afford physician hospitalists, are staffing their hospital medicine programs with nurse practitioners.
Hospitals that use this approach must comply with state and federal regulations regarding scope of…
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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…
In the three years since the Rusk County Memorial Hospital hospitalist program started, primary care access in Ladysmith has stabilized, the hospital’s admissions and patient satisfaction scores have rebounded, and Rusk’s future is no longer in jeopardy.
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…
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…
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…
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…