http://healthcarecollaboration.com Improving Physician-Hospital Relations Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:34:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://healthcarecollaboration.com/collaborative-tools-to-facilitate-physician-engagement-post-84/ I have a stack of books awaiting review.  It remains my goal for 2010 to make more time to read and review new works as a value-added service to loyal readers. Something called out to me about Confident Voices: The Nurses' Guide to Improving Communication and Creating Positive Workplaces, written by ... http://healthcarecollaboration.com/collaborative-naivete-post-83/  Happy Valentine's Day. I apologize that three weeks have elapsed since my last post: 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 ... http://healthcarecollaboration.com/hospital-leaders-whom-i-admire-post-82/ Warning to readers: This post, like a previous post, Gotcha: A surgeon dissects patient-centered care, contains more rant than reason.  Those who feel passionately that Congress is doing a great job dealing with the people's healthcare should look elsewhere for confirmation of their views. In An Interview with Stuart Altman, this distinguished healthcare ... http://healthcarecollaboration.com/a-massachusetts-surgeon-weighs-in-on-the-meaning-of-scott-browns-senate-victory-post-81/ In Candid Reflections on Bad Behavior, I reflected on the recently published ACPE Doctor-Nurse Behavior Study, in which 2,124 physicians and 696 nurses participated.  Nearly 85% of respondents experienced degrading comments, 73% yelling, 49% cursing, and 38% refusing to work together. Those of you who have been with me know that ... http://healthcarecollaboration.com/collaborative-learning-post-80/ I join with thousands of others decrying the violence that took the lives of our troops at Fort Hood yesterday.  My heart goes out to their friends and families.  I pray that something will come of this event that will prevent a similar crisis from ever happening again. The parallel with healthcare ... http://healthcarecollaboration.com/collaboration-to-prevent-sabotage-post-79/ 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 ... http://healthcarecollaboration.com/collaborative-crisis-post-78/ I had the pleasure last weekend of attending The Future of Medicine: An Expert Diagnosis, at my alma mater, the University of Rochester.  Here I am introducing Dr. Mark Taubman, the Acting CEO of the University of Rochester Medical Center. Other Panelists included: Paul Keckley, Executive Director, Deloitte Center for Health ... http://healthcarecollaboration.com/collaborative-future-post-77/ As I reflect on major insights that I have experienced over the past three decades, most have arisen from talking with women: In Nursing Collaboration, I celebrated Nikki who took me aside during a busy ED shift and told me, "Just because this is the 7th patient you have seen with a sprained ... http://healthcarecollaboration.com/collaborative-insight-post-76/ In residency, I learned that it is a sign of strength to admit ignorance and ask for help.  While  writing my latest column  for the Journal of Healthcare Management on Innovation in the Face of Recession, I realized that  little has been written recently on that subject in healthcare.  So, I asked respected ... http://healthcarecollaboration.com/collaborative-wishes-post-75/