Collaborative Moderation
I salute Ron Yee, CMO at United Health Centers of the San Joaquin Valley, who introduced me when I presented at the annual meeting of The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) on Field-Tested Strategies in Physician Recruitment, Contracting, and Retention. Community health centers provide care to approximately 20,000,000 patients, which is expected to double [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, NACHC, physician administrator communication, physician recruiting, physician retention, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations, Ron Yee
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 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 [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, Defenestration of Prague, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, physician administrator communication, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations, Thirty Year War
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 [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, healthcare reform, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, physician administrator communication, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, 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
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 [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, healthcare quality and safety, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, physician administrator communication, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations, Sentara Health System
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 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 [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, healthcare reform, improving physician-hospital relationships, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, physician administrator communication, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations
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 [...]
Tags: collaboration in healthcare, improving physician-hospital relationships, Jonathon R. B. Halbesleben, Kenneth H. Cohn MD, Managing stress, physician administrator communication, physician-administration relations, physician-hospital communication, physician-hospital relations, preventing burnout
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
