Physician Engagement
Collaborative Uncertainty
Last weekend, I had an early taste of spring, as I facilitated a medical staff retreat with hospital leaders and Board members. We discussed: – physician leaders who have improved quality, safety, and service – building a culture of collaboration from the ground up – career-saving strategies to prevent frustration and burnout. We also discussed how we could [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, healthcare reform, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, moving forward despite uncertainty, physician administrator communication, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations
Collaborative Strategic Planning
Last week, I had the pleasure of teaching a case discussion at the Harvard School of Public Health, entitled (A) Physician-Led Planning: The CEO’s Dilemma and (B) The Physicians’ Response. Of the approximately 60 Masters in Public Health students, about 2/3 were physicians learning additional skills, such as systems thinking, that bode well for the [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, collaborative strategic planning, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, physician administrator communication, Physician Engagement, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations
Making a Collaborative Difference: The Pogo Epiphany
Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a medical staff retreat in a setting to which I always enjoy returning. The didactic sessions were great, and what I will always remember was a dinner in which I was seated near an orthopedic surgeon. He said passionately: I am the problem…. I want to make [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, physician administrator communication, physician coaching, physician leadership development, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations, Pogo epiphany
Collaborative Engagement: An Overdue Update
This week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a medical staff meeting in which we discussed survey results regarding provider engagement. Engaged workers strongly agree with the following statements: This organization really inspires the very best in me I am willing to put in a great deal of effort beyond what is normally expected to help this [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, physician administrator communication, Physician Engagement, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations, rural hospitals, SWOT analysis
Collaborative Critters: Accelerating Physician-Hospital Integration
I spent a wonderful weekend in Florida with an outstanding hospital that desired to accelerate its physician-hospital integration progress. As facilitator, I presented an analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT), discussed medical staff integration models, and concluded with strategies to enhance physician engagement. Then, I watched with pride as groups of physicians, administrators, [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, moving from me to we, physician administrator communication, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, Physician-hospital integration, physician-hospital relations
Collaborative Hospital-Physician Relationships: Moving Beyond Control
In a previous post, I mentioned that the January 1, 2012 deadline for Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Medicare applications is rapidly approaching. In a recent Advisory E-Alert, entitled the Hospital-Government Complex, Mark Weiss, warned physicians: The fact is, the ACO is simply a model for hospital control of physician practices, cloaked in the respectability of [...]
Tags: Accountable Care Organizations, ACOs, collaboration in healthcare, control, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, Mark Weiss, physician administrator communication, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations, Sentara Health
Successful Collaboration in Healthcare: Review of Colleen Stukenberg’s New Book
I moved Successful Collaboration in Healthcare: A Guide for Physicians, Nurses, and Clinical Documentation Specialists to the top of my list of books to review because I was intrigued that a nurse would write a guide to collaboration. As mentioned in Nursing Collaboration, most of the valuable clinical insights that I have learned have come from [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, Colleen Stukenberg, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, physician administrator communication, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations, physician-nurse collaboration
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 [...]
Tags: Chris Warner, collaboration in healthcare, High Altitude Leadership, hospital-physician engagement, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, physician administrator communication, Physician Engagement, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations
Hospital Leaders Whom I Admire: Post 82
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 decluttering, including before [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, Hospital CEOs, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, physician administrator communication, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations
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 [...]
