Archive for 'Physician Engagement'
Collaborative Tools to Facilitate Physician Engagement: Post 84
For me, understanding physician-hospital relations is a never-ending iterative journey rather than a task with a finite beginning and end. As I prepare for this year’s presentation to the ACHE Congress (82 x, Physician Recruiting, Contracting, and Retention Strategies, 3/24/10), I recall my first presentation, where I asked the audience, “What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word ‘tool’?”
The most common response was hammer, followed by gun, and then chain saw. For a number of Read more »
Posted: March 14th, 2010 under Physician Engagement.
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Hospital Leaders Whom I Admire: Post 82
Happy Valentine’s Day.
I apologize that three weeks have elapsed since my last post:
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My wife and I put our house on the market. After living there 12 years, I underestimated the amount of work that it would take to have it ready to show; please see my post on the benefits of decluttering, including before and after photos; now that we are empty-nesters, my wife and I plan to move to the North shore of Massachusetts (PS our Natick home Read more »
Posted: February 14th, 2010 under Physician Engagement.
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Collaborative Crisis: Post 78
As I described in Dealing with a Medical Staff in Crisis, I have witnessed the power of independent community physicians to affect hospital revenues and hiring. The quickest way to explain how we got to this point, is to refer to Maslow’s Pyramid, where each party took a lofty view of its own goals (self-actualization, at the top of the pyramid) and a skeptical view of the other side, dismissing their concerns as Read more »
Posted: November 1st, 2009 under Physician Engagement.
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Collaborative Physician-Hospital Strategies
Before reviewing Jay Warden’s new book, Creating Sustainable Physician-Hospital Strategies (Chicago: Health Administration Press), I need to disclose that the author cited the Medical Advisory Panel (MAP) at Santa Barbara Cottage Health System as a model for physician-hospital collaboration (p.61-63). I facilitated that project in 2003 and attended a MAP meeting there two weeks ago, where physicians and hospital administrators continue to come together to discuss topics of vital interest.
I am proud of what Read more »
Posted: March 8th, 2009 under Physician Engagement.
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Collaborative Etiquette
A couple of weeks ago, as I was finishing up a weekend of surgical coverage, the hospital CEO quipped, “How come you weren’t in the OR where I can be making money off you?” I replied, “I did something far more important. I spent over one half hour each weekend day listening to Dr. X.” Dr. X is a revered retired internist and past President of the Medical Staff who unfortunately developed an acute abdomen during chemotherapy and was suffering a prolonged Read more »
Posted: February 8th, 2009 under Physician Engagement.
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Collaborative Consultation
I don’t usually talk about work, but the muse awakened me at 6:30 am with some thoughts.
I felt proud to be a physician this past weekend. I was invited to facilitate a medical staff retreat for a mid-size community hospital. The theme was “Challenging the Status Quo.” My formal talks included “Interdependendent Healthcare: Moving from Me to We,” and “Medical Staff Models for A Sustainable Future.”
What made me proud was listening to physicians discuss the Medical Staff President’s suggestion that all Read more »
Posted: January 25th, 2009 under Physician Engagement.
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Collaborative Leadership
I opened the cover of Tom Atchison’s and Greg Carlson’s new book, Leading Healthcare Cultures, with the excitement of a 6 year-old child unwrapping holiday presents (Atchison TA, Carlson G. 2009. Leading Healthcare Cultures: How Human Capital Drives Financial Performance. Chicago. Health Administration Press). Objectivity aside, Tom is a cherished mentor, with over 30 years of experience in physician-hospital relations, who is a master in helping people focus on important fundamentals, which he calls “blocking and tackling .”
In Read more »
Posted: January 4th, 2009 under Physician Engagement.
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Collaborative Complementarity
The question that I am asked most frequently during my seminars is, “Does the Medical Advisory Panel (MAP) interfere with the effectiveness of the Medical Executive Committee (MEC)?” The MAP is a group of high-performing, well-respected physicians who review and recommend clinical priorities based on presentations by the major clinical sections and departments.
Seminar participants are concerned that the Medical Advisory Panel will usurp the authority of the Medical Executive Committee and perhaps put hospital leaders in the middle of yet Read more »
Posted: November 23rd, 2008 under Physician Engagement.
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Collaborative Culture
Just returned from The Healthcare Roundtable for Employed Physician Networks where we discussed what happens when physicians transition from independent private practice to more integrated healthcare delivery systems. I was struck by the number of people who spoke of the difficulty of coming to a common culture. In a recent article, Dr. Michael Perry, CEO of Freeport Health Network, llinois, wrote that physician employment does not yield ownership:
Ninety-five percent of our physicians are employed by or Read more »
Posted: November 17th, 2008 under Physician Engagement.
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Collaborative Engagement
Please view my guest post Before Alignment, published today at HospitalImpact.org. HospitalImpact is the brainchild of Tony Chen, who started it to focus on change as an exciting opportunity rather than as something that is done to us. I will post once a month on topics that allow hospital leaders to get inside the head of physicians and depersonalize differences that are based on outlook, background, and training.
In doing so, I expect to be the lightning rod Read more »
Posted: November 10th, 2008 under Physician Engagement.
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