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Beyond Burnout and Engagement: A Systematic Method for Measuring and Addressing Health Professional Wellness
Burnout has been implicated in higher turnover, reduced patient satisfaction and worsened safety, but understanding the degree of burnout in a given health professional or team does not direct HR leaders to solutions. In this webinar, presenter Dan Shapiro, Vice Dean for Faculty and Administrative Affairs at the Penn State College of Medicine, demonstrates how to choose starting interventions for different institutional burnout profiles and identify the major variables impacting physician and nurse turnover.
Beyond Burnout and Engagement: A Systematic Method for Measuring and Addressing Health Professional Wellness
Burnout has been implicated in higher turnover, reduced patient satisfaction and worsened safety, but understanding the degree of burnout in a given health professional or team does not direct HR leaders to solutions. In this webinar, presenter Dan Shapiro, Vice Dean for Faculty and Administrative Affairs at the Penn State College of Medicine, demonstrates how to choose starting interventions for different institutional burnout profiles and identify the major variables impacting physician and nurse turnover.
President invokes Defense Production Act
President Trump today invoked the Defense Production Act to expand production of ventilators, masks and other emergency medical supplies.
Hospitals add 7,800 jobs in February
Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.15% in February to a seasonally adjusted 5,257,900 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
Physician Relationship Strategy: 18 Questions for Leadership Teams
As health system leaders look at the physician-practice merger and acquisition activity in their local markets and reassess their own physician alignment strategies, they need to answer questions about their strategic physician partnership needs, local market dynamics, their organization’s value proposition and innovative practice arrangements.
Growing List of Competitors Targets Physician Practices
A new AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Insights Report “Evolving Physician-Practice Ownership Models” explores the role of physicians at the center of the health care value equation, analyzes emerging investor types, strategic implications for hospitals and health systems and organizational threats and opportunities.
Market Insights: Evolving Physician-Practice Ownership Models
Physician-practice acquisitions and/or equity investment by such nontraditional players as health plans, private-equity investors, venture capitalists and large employers is an increasing trend. These new entrants give physicians new options for where and how to work. In the shift to value-based care, private-equity firms and new investors can provide physician practices with capital for investments, streamline administrative tasks, use economies of scale for purchasing, improve billing practices, bring in common-practice support tools and analytics, and expand services through digital technology and telehealth. What they promise to deliver is similar to what hospitals and health systems are trying to achieve in the transition to value-based care.
Evolving Physician-Practice Ownership Models
This report provides an overview of current trends in physician–practice ownership models and their driving forces, lessons from nontraditional physician-practice arrangements, and implications for hospitals’/health systems’ organizational strategies, physician relationship strategy and provision of care to patients.
New Investors in Physician-Practice Ownership Models
We profile four major new investor types: private equity, venture capital, health plans and large employers along with a representative sample of recent investments and partnerships. Several of the deals by private-equity firms and health plans are billion-dollar acquisitions. Expect further competition from these investors.
Special Bulletin: CMS Releases Final Rule on Medicare Shared Savings Program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dec. 21 issued a rule, called “Pathways to Success”, that finalizes changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program, including to the structure of payments made to accountable care organizations and other aspects of participation in the MSSP.