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ASHHRA eNews Brief: June 2013
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Earn up to 18.5 Recertification Credit Hours at the ASHHRA Annual Conference. Register now to secure your spot!

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ASHHRA and INTEGRATED Healthcare Strategies are pleased to announce that the 2013 National Healthcare Leadership Compensation Survey deadline has been extended to June 21, 2013. Participate now!

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Print copies of the Summer 2013 issue of HR Pulse magazine have been mailed, and ASHHRA members may access the electronic version by logging in. This issue features articles on employee engagement, emergency preparedness, and more.

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NLRB Remains Winless in Recent Rulemaking Litigation: D.C. Circuit Strikes Down NLRB’s Notice Posting Rule.

Visit http://www.ashhra.org/advocacy/resources.shtml#latest_updates to view the full article online.

 
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WORKFORCE

By Karen Caffarini

Physician burnout is well-documented. But doctors may not realize that if they or one of their practice colleagues is suffering from burnout, chances are that at least one staff member also has the same malady. Or it could be that a burned-out staff member is contributing to the doctor's own feeling.

SOURCE: AMEDNEWS.COM

Visit http://www.amednews.com/article/20130610/business/130619992/5/ to view the full article online.

 

By Ashley Gold 

Health care job growth slowed to levels not seen since January of this year thanks to hospital jobs declining by 5,900 in May, according to new data released from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/healthcare-job-growth-slows-may/2013-06-10 to view the full article online.

 

By Alicia Caramenico 

Mandatory influenza vaccinations did not drive hoards of health care workers to voluntarily terminate employment at Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois, according to a four-year analysis of vaccination rates. In fact, almost all complied with the mandate.

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/hospitals-wont-lose-workers-mandatory-flu-shots/2013-06-07 to view the full article online.

 
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COMPENSATION

By Sheryl Cash

Physicians know who their best employees are hardworking, competent, loyal, and emotionally invested in the practice and its patients. They're essential to the quality care doctors provide each day and increasingly vital to ensuring a financially healthy practice that can withstand ongoing changes in health care expectations, technology, and regulations.

SOURCE: AMEDNEWS.COM

Visit http://www.amednews.com/article/20130520/business/130529997/4/ to view the full article online.

 

By Bob Herman

CEOs in the hospital, health insurance and pharmaceutical industries generally have higher compensation figures than their counterparts in other non-health care related industries, such as technology and manufacturing, according to a survey from executive compensation firm Equilar cited in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report. 

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/compensation-issues/healthcare-ceos-outearn-most-other-industry-chiefs.html to view the full article online.

 
GENERAL HR

By Rebecca McNeil

A growing number of human resources (HR) teams in health care have discovered that their involvement with new employees should not end when the offer letter is accepted. Leading acute and long-term care organizations recognize that onboarding serves as a bridge between the talent acquisition process and new hires’ transition into the workplace. Effective onboarding programs help employees succeed on the job, improve new hire retention, and enable HR teams to provide higher levels of service to their hiring managers.

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

 

By Sue Ter Maat 

More employers will continue offering insurance to their workers rather than dropping it as a benefit and make them seek out individual plans on state-level health insurance exchanges as fuller implementation of the Affordable Care Act nears.

SOURCE: AMEDNEWS.COM

Visit http://www.amednews.com/article/20130610/business/130619991/7/ to view the full article online.

 

By Molly Gamble 

Talent management involves identifying and developing emerging leaders early on in their careers, helping new leaders adjust to their roles, and ensuring current leaders maintain and even improve their leadership capabilities. While these initiatives may sound soft in the business sense of health care, they do seem to affect health systems' financial, clinical, and workforce performance, according to a whitepaper from Witt/Kieffer. 

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/talent-management-and-health-system-performance-16-statistics.html to view the full article online.

 

By Candace Stuart

Health care workers appear to be more stressed than other professionals, based on an analysis of calls to employee assistance programs.

SOURCE: CARDIOVASCULAR BUSINESS

Visit http://www.cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/practice-management/breaking-point-news-healthcare-workers-most-stressed to view the full article online.

 
PHYSICIANS

Stephen Moulton Interviews Jennifer Grebenschikoff of The Physician Executive Leadership Center

Jennifer Grebenschikoff is one of the founders of The Physician Executive Leadership Center. She is a widely respected expert on physician executive search, career counseling and compensation. Jennifer's been featured in publications as varied as AMA News, Modern Healthcare and Physician Executive. Jennifer is a regular Faculty Member at the American College of Physician Executives' (ACPE) meetings. She teaches one day of the four-day "Managing Physician Performance" course where her topic is how to successfully recruit and retain the physicians who match your organization's mission, vision and values.  She also is a faculty member for ACPE’s Certified Physician Executive program where her topics include Networking, Resumes, Interviewing and the Executive Image.

Visit http://www.naylornetwork.com/ahh-nwl/pdf/8_Keys_to_Effectively_Hire_Physician_Executives.pdf to view the full article online.

 

By Sue Ter Maat

Recruiters say doctors can save a lot of time, money, and trouble by following a priority checklist to get the job that best suits them. When family physician Megan Jensen, MD, was looking for her first job, she wrote down a list of her priorities. The list included location, lifestyle, hours, patient population, procedures, and support.

SOURCE: AMEDNEWS.COM

Visit http://www.amednews.com/article/20130603/business/130609985/4/ to view the full article online.

 

It’s crunch time for radiologists. The New York Times reported that an osteopathic radiology residency in the Bronx was abruptly terminated (the decision was later reversed for this year), casting its 12 residents adrift. The article focused on the hospital’s plan to cash in on the primary care mini-boom that is allegedly taking place.

SOURCE: PHYSICIAN’S WEEKLY

Visit http://www.physiciansweekly.com/physician-shortage/ to view the full article online.

 

By Karen Caffarini

As the medical director of a health services group that serves racially diverse patients in some of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, Ravi Grivois-Shah, MD, always conducts a quick search of physicians he’s interested in hiring on various social media sites and blogs to see if anything worrisome surfaces before offering them a position.

SOURCE: AMEDNEWS.COM

Visit http://www.amednews.com/article/20130603/business/130609984/5/ to view the full article online.

 
HOSPITAL NEWS

By Anemona Hartocollis

At North Shore University Hospital on Long Island, motion sensors, like those used for burglar alarms, go off every time someone enters an intensive care room. The sensor triggers a video camera, which transmits its images halfway around the world to India, where workers are checking to see if doctors and nurses are performing a critical procedure: washing their hands.

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES

Visit http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/nyregion/hospitals-struggle-to-get-workers-to-wash-their-hands.html?_r=0 to view the full article online.

 

By Marty Stempniak

Community health workers extend the hospital's reach beyond its own four walls—an imperative under new quality and payment measures.

SOURCE: HOSPITALS & HEALTH NETWORKS MAGAZINE

Visit http://www.hhnmag.com/hhnmag/jsp/articledisplay.jsp?dcrpath=HHNMAG/Article/data/06JUN2013/0613HHN_Feature_community&domain=HHNMAG to view the full article online.

 
MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP

By Alicia Caramenico

With baby boomers retiring, a leadership gap is widening at hospitals. The problem is exacerbated because many hospitals lack adequate programs to identify and train new leaders, Hospitals & Health Networks Daily reported.

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/bridging-generation-gap-healthcare-leadership/2013-06-04 to view the full article online.

 

By Charlotte Huff 

To thrive in a quickly changing health care system, leaders rethink how and where they deploy their workforce.

SOURCE: HOSPITALS & HEALTH NETWORKS MAGAZINE

Visit http://www.hhnmag.com/hhnmag/jsp/articledisplay.jsp?dcrpath=HHNMAG/Article/data/06JUN2013/0613HHN_Feature_discharge&domain=HHNMAG to view the full article online.

 

By Anuja Vaidya

Datamark, a provider of digital mailroom, data entry and document processing services for Fortune 500 companies, and Creative Healthcare, a provider of performance improvement solutions, recently held a roundtable on electronic medical record adoption and its challenges. Here are edited excerpts from the group's discussion, where health care leaders talked about where their organizations are in the process of implementing EHRs as well as the challenges they have faced. They also made suggestions for EHR improvement. 

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/5-healthcare-leaders-discuss-the-challenges-of-emr-adoption-implementation.html to view the full article online.

 
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