ASHHRA eNews Pulse

I recently read some comments from the acceptance speech of William Rosenzweig, co-founder and managing director of Physic Ventures, of his winning the Oslo Business for Peace Award. He is often inspired by his garden and he states, "A gardener sees the world as a system of interdependent parts – where healthy, sustaining relationships are essential to the vitality of the whole."¹ This statement reminded me of ASHHRA – where healthy, sustaining relationships make ASHHRA what it is today; an organization that advances the human side of health care, leading the way for highly effective, valued, and credible leaders. Just like our gardens, these relationships are firmly anchored with the help of our very own gardeners – the volunteers that make up the Regional, Chapter, and Member Services Committee.

The chairs of this committee are two wonderful board members, Karmen Reid and Tom McCawley. Karmen and Tom work all year alongside their ASHHRA staff colleagues, Emily Meskill and Sharon Allen, to keep us all interconnected. They reach out to regional consultants, chapter presidents, chapter members, and other individuals who need their assistance and provide the foundation for the relationships that makes ASHHRA so special. They do this with the help of the Regional Consultants. Our Regional Consultants are: Lisa D. Pratt, James Papp, Lynette Walker, RN, Ph.D., Teresa Threlkeld, Dianne Potter, SPHR, Annette Suppes, Eileen Brown, MPPM, Alisa L. Rathbun, SPHR, and Steven J. Stahl. They each work directly with your chapter presidents and other chapter officers. Together, this group of individuals leads the way and models our values: people, integrity, leadership, diversity, collaboration, excellence, and innovation.

By now I hope you have made plans to attend the ASHHRA 48th Annual Conference and Exposition from September 22-25, in Denver, Colorado. When you are there, please watch for these folks and say hello to them. Stop and thank them for volunteering to serve and be there to support all of us. They want to get to know you and learn about your experiences and needs. Who knows? You may want to volunteer in one of these roles in the future and help continue the ASHHRA legacy.

So, let’s get together in beautiful Denver. It’s not too late to sign up. We have educational tracks for everyone: new to the profession, mid-level practitioners, senior executives, and practitioners from non-hospital facilities. Topics include sessions on accountable care, health care reform, physician and employee engagement, culture of wellness, and many other areas that will help you.

Leading People Through Change,

Irma L. Pye, SPHR
ASHHRA 2012 President
Senior Vice President & CHRO
Valley Baptist Health System
Harlingen, Texas

¹Source: www.dailygood.org/view.php?qid=5161

 

In response to the growing need to provide our members with more information on health population management and ACOs, we’ve compiled a list of helpful resources to jumpstart the learning process. Look out for more articles to come on these subjects in the future.

Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/ahh-nwl/articles/index-v3.asp?aid=189917&issueID=25974 to view the full article online.

 

Earn up to 14.5 Qualifying Education Credit Hours at the ASHHRA 48th Annual Conference & Exposition!

Visit http://www.ashhra.org/conference/2012/index.shtml#ACHE_info to view the full article online.

 

The ASHHRA annual conference has been approved for 18.0 general recertification credit hours, 15.0 strategic business management recertification credit hours, and 1.5 California specific recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

Visit http://www.ashhra.org/conference/2012/index.shtml#HRCI_info to view the full article online.

 

If you are interested in participating in the ASHHRA Mentoring Program, complete and submit the application by September 30, 2012.

Visit http://www.ashhra.org/learning/mentoring.shtml to view the full article online.

 

A select group of health care executives participated in the Forum, a two-hour session titled, "Physician Engagement and Integration." The executive summary is now available.

Visit http://www.ashhra.org/about/governance/thoughtleaderforum.shtml#tlf_2012_sanfrancisco to view the full article online.

 

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By John Commins

For years now, Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly employment reports have been showing that the health care sector is the biggest job creation machine in the U.S. economy.

SOURCE: HEALTHLEADERS MEDIA

Visit http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/HR-284229/Healthcare-Job-Growth-Cools-Slightly to view the full article online.

 

By Alicia Caramenico

Reinforcing the trend toward hospital integration, the number of cardiologists obtaining hospital employment continues to rise, according to a survey released by the American College of Cardiology (ACC).

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/hospitals-woo-more-heart-docs-employment/2012-09-11 to view the full article online.

 

By Victoria Stagg Elliott

When Rob Olson, MD, a solo practice obstetrician-gynecologist in Bellingham, Wash., sat in on a presentation about the emergence of hospitalists in his specialty a few years ago, a light bulb went off. If there was an obstetrician-hospitalist program in his area, he wouldn’t have to run to the hospital for emergencies, which was disruptive to patients in his office as well as his quality of life. Patients with an obstetrical crisis would not have to wait for him to rush out of his office, drive to the hospital, park, and then find them. They could be cared for by an obstetrician who was in the hospital all the time.

SOURCE: AMERICAN MEDICAL NEWS

Visit http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/09/03/bisa0903.htm to view the full article online.

 

By Pamela Lewis Dolan

After numerous mixed reviews of pay-for-performance incentive plans, researchers from Australia have developed a nine-point checklist to determine if a program will have the desired outcomes. Although the list was developed for program organizers, they say physicians can benefit from it by finding out whether they should participate in an incentive program.

SOURCE: AMERICAN MEDICAL NEWS

Visit http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/09/03/bisf0906.htm to view the full article online.

 

By Rayanne Thorn

Health care continues to be the fastest-growing industry in the U.S., providing jobs for about 15 million people – a number that is projected to grow by 3.2 million new jobs by 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Half of the 20 fastest-growing occupations are healthcare-related; they include such diverse positions as physicians, dentists, registered nurses, physical therapists, medical records and health information technicians, radiologic technologists, dental hygienists, and nursing aides.

Visit http://www.naylornetwork.com/ahh-nwl/pdf/Trends_Healthcare_Recruiting_Thorn_Broadbean_9_6_2012.pdf to view the full article online.

 

By Bob Spoerl

In a recent webinar hosted by Becker's Hospital Review, Scott Regan, founder and CEO of Atlanta-based execution management and strategic planning software company AchieveIt, shared tips for creating a culture of individual accountability and execution.

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/strategic-planning/10-secrets-to-creating-a-culture-of-accountability-and-execution.html to view the full article online.

 

By Genevra Pittman

Many doctors and nurses don't like the idea of patients reminding them to clean their hands, a new study from Switzerland suggests. So-called hand hygiene has become a major goal of health care facilities around the world, and patients are often encouraged to become involved in system-wide changes to promote hand washing, researchers said.

SOURCE: REUTERS

Visit http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/04/us-hand-washing-reminders-idUSBRE88312D20120904 to view the full article online.

 

By Lindsey Tanner

Don't call today's young doctors slackers. True, they may shun a 24/7 on-call solo practice and try to have a life outside of work. Yet they say they're just as committed to medicine as kindly Marcus Welby from 1970s TV, or even grumpy Dr. House. The practice of medicine is in the midst of an evolution, and millennial and Gen X doctors seem to be perfectly suited for it and in some ways may be driving it. The federal health care law is speeding some of these changes, too.

SOURCE: SFGATE

Visit http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Forget-Marcus-Welby-Today-s-docs-want-a-real-life-3834786.php to view the full article online.

 

By Christine S. Moyer

Recent mass shootings have reignited discussions about gun violence as a public health problem. That approach would involve a collaboration across health care.

SOURCE: AMEDNEWS.COM 

Visit http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/09/10/hll20910.htm to view the full article online.

 

By Debra Beaulieu

Yet another study seems to have confirmed the relationship between physician empathy and positive clinical outcomes. For this study, published in the March issue of Academic Medicine, researchers from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia focused on 891 diabetic patients, treated between July 2006 and June 2009, by 29 physicians in the school's department of family and community medicine. The physicians each were assigned an 'empathy score' based on their completion of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy JSE, a standardized test developed in 2001 to measure empathy in the context of medical education and patient care.

SOURCE: FIERCE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

Visit http://www.fiercepracticemanagement.com/story/study-empathy-integral-physician-competence/2011-03-09#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled%2Conready&id=I0_1347398982441&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogleads.g.doublecl to view the full article online.

 

By Kim Coulter

A culture of safety continues to take shape at Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay, Ontario. A circular shape, to be exact. In 2009, the hospital adopted a multi-dimensional initiative to raise awareness and knowledge of both patient and staff safety. It involved three teams, Quality and Patient Safety, Infection Prevention and Control, and Occupational Health and Safety, joining forces to show that patient and staff safety are everyone’s responsibility and are of equal importance.

SOURCE: HOSPITAL NEWS

Visit http://www.hospitalnews.com/joining-forces-to-promote-patient-safety/ to view the full article online.

 

By Victoria Stagg Elliott

Many medical employers are always on the lookout for physicians either for current openings or for those expected in the future. CareerBuilder.com, a jobs website, surveyed 253 health care hiring managers from May 14 to June 4 and found that 51 percent were recruiting for expected future openings, including those for physicians. Forty-three percent said they had built a talent pipeline of potential job candidates.

SOURCE: AMEDNEWS.COM

Visit http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/09/10/bisa0910.htm to view the full article online.

 

By Dan Biddle, Ph.D.

Succession planning, or developing leaders from within an organization, is a multi-step process. Research has shown that benefits to organizations that invest in developing incumbent staff members are two-fold – higher employee morale and higher employee engagement. However, to develop current employees into future leaders, organizations must first recruit, retain, and engage highly motivated staff.

Visit http://www.naylornetwork.com/ahh-nwl/pdf/Testing_Before_Investing_-_Hiring_Future_Leaders_-Juengel.pdf to view the full article online.

 

By Karen Cheung-Larivee

With calls to improve physician leadership skills, recent research from the U.K. concludes that more clinician participation on boards can improve overall hospital performance, work and organization professor Ian Kirkpatrick and accounting and finance lecturer Gianluca Veronesi, both at Leeds University Business School, wrote in The Guardian.

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/doctors-boards-improves-hospital-performance/2012-09-11 to view the full article online.