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, and board members broke into groups of eight to discuss topics such as medical staff models, improvement incentives, recruitment and retention initiatives, physician engagement strategies, and guiding Read more »Posted: August 11th, 2010 under Physician Engagement.
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Collaborative Exit
Greetings from Prague, where the choral group in which my wife sings made its international debut. Our activities included a tour of the Hradcany Royal Palace, which was a painless way of relearning European history.
I use the word “relearning” because I can remember the page from freshman year high school describing the defenestration of Prague May 23, 1618, in which over 100 Protestant nobles led by Count Thurn stormed the palace to protest the succession to the throne of the Habsburg Read more »
Posted: July 9th, 2010 under Learning.
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Collaborative Construction: Implications for Hospital-Physician Relations
Despite the stresses of moving, I am excited to buy a home that a builder built for himself. As several people in construction have told me, builders use their knowledge, experience, and leverage with their subcontractors to make sure that they are living in a home that meets and exceeds specifications.
My grandfather, who sold commercial real estate, told me to begin a tour of a house for sale at the basement, where one can see, feel, and even smell the quality of Read more »
Posted: June 13th, 2010 under Building on Success.
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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 quality of care. Tied to the focus given to the notion of paying for quality of care as Read more »
Posted: June 1st, 2010 under Physician Engagement.
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Collaborative Commissioning
It was a proud family moment when my son was commissioned as Ensign in the US Navy Friday, May 14, 2010.
The oath of office that he took reads:
I solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation Read more »
Posted: May 18th, 2010 under WaterCooler Collaboration.
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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 interactions with nurses.
I liked what she wrote about communication differences (p.20):
Whereas nurses may focus more on the Read more »
Posted: April 27th, 2010 under Physician Engagement.
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Collaborative Congress: Post 85
I believe that this Congress of the American College of Healthcare Executives was the best educational forum that I have ever attended. Imagine Congress passing major healthcare legislation the same week that over 4,000 healthcare executives met in Chicago to discuss implications of healthcare reform. I felt that I was part of the present, especially as Mike Fecher and I addressed over 100 people re: Field-Tested Physician Recruiting, Contracting, and Retention Strategies. I found it provocative that nearly everyone conducted Read more »
Posted: April 20th, 2010 under WaterCooler Collaboration.
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Collaborative Stress Management: A New Book Review
Those of you who read my first book, Better Communication for Better Care, know that stress and burnout figure prominently in my writing because, from my work in 40 states, we are experiencing a tidal wave of stress and burnout in healthcare workplaces. As Dr. Jonathon Halbesleben, the author of Managing Stress and Preventing Workplace Burnout, wrote (p.xiii-xiv):
Stress has become something of a badge of honor in Read more »
Posted: March 30th, 2010 under Building on Success.
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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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Collaborative Naivete: Post 83
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 Beth Boynton and edited by Bonnie Kerrick:
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In Collaborative Insight, I saluted the nurses who helped me improve my bedside manner and my communication skills; Read more »
Posted: February 21st, 2010 under Learning.
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