Building Healthcare Collaboration

Reap the benefits of healthcare collaboration at your institution.

Collaboration builds a culture in which outstanding outcomes are the norm. Collaboration supports learning and professional growth and allows dedicated professionals to develop new approaches based on shared vision to reconnect with the values that attracted them to healthcare in the first place.

Do you want:

A better practice environment that results in improved recruiting and retention?
Enhanced teamwork and improved clinical outcomes?
Increased revenues and decreased outmigration?
Lower expenses and improved efficiency and effectiveness?

Collaboration is healthcare’s low-hanging fruit. Harvest it today!

Problems we can help you solve:

Are suboptimal physician-hospital relations hurting your bottom line and affecting your clinical outcomes?
Are you frustrated that tools and techniques that once worked for you in the past no longer achieve their desired objectives?
Are physicians and administrators at your institution talking at each other rather than communicating with one another?
Is it getting harder to entice the right people to show up at and participate in your meetings?

How we work

The Physician Executive recently featured our work in an article entitled, “Structured Dialogue Between Physicians and Administrators Yields Positive Results“. This article discusses how using structured dialogue, physicians, nurses, and administrators are working more interdependently at Cottage Hospital, defining new clinical priorities that resulted in an annual savings of over a million dollars in supply costs.

Structured Dialogue is a process that actively engages practicing physicians to articulate their collective, patient-centered self-interest. Unlike hospital-centered change efforts, the structured dialogue process is led by a medical advisory panel (MAP) of high-performing, respected physicians who review and recommend clinical priorities based on presentations by major clinical sections and departments.

Recommendations generally include performance improvements rather than a list of capital-intensive budget items. In return for giving practicing physicians a say in clinical priority setting, hospital executives are able to enlist physicians to attend meetings and outline their priorities.

Why Select Us?

When you choose to work with us, you get:

Consultants with over 20 years experience in helping practicing physicians and hospital executives come to consensus
Active, available senior consultants who are specialists in healthcare and healthcare organizational dynamics
Help in creating and fostering a safe environment for learning that transcends blaming
A disciplined approach to project fees

“Dr. Cohn was instrumental in a successful medical staff planning process at Cottage Hospital. He gained the trust of the physicians very early on and helped them establish important clinical priorities for our hospital.” - Ron Werft, President and CEO, Santa Barbara Cottage Health System

If you want to enhance physician-hospital collaboration and achieve breakthrough results in improving care for your community, contact us today to schedule your free consultation.