Engage, Collaborate, and Succeed

I had a wonderful experience last Friday, facilitating a medical executive committee retreat on ways to promote physician engagement at a hospital that has become part of a healthcare system. As I wrote in Collaborative Engagement, engaged workers strongly agree with the following statements: This organization really inspires the very best in me I am willing to put [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Applying High-Reliability Principles: Guest Ezine by Ellen Guarnieri

Over the summer, as I move to a new residence, I plan to update my ezines.  With this ezine, I introduce you to Ellen Guarnieri, who participated in my ACHE seminar, Practical Strategies for Engaging Physicians. If you want to learn more about how her hospital improved reliability in the area of cardiac medications, please [...]

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 [...]