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ASHHRA eNews Brief: September 2013
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The Affordable Care Act requires employers to provide employees with written notice of the new marketplace coverage option by October 1, 2013. View the DOL Model or information on the guidance prepared by Drinker Biddle.

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Click here for the full Jones Day Commentary.



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Earn up to 18.25 General Recertification Credit Hours at the ASHHRA Annual Conference. Register now to secure your spot!

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The Certified in Healthcare Human Resources (CHHR) Examination Preparation Guide is now available to order from the ASHHRA Online Store.

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WORKFORCE

By David W. Miller 

With the economy gaining strength and the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting increases in health care job openings, many organizations are beginning to fear losing their top talent to other hospitals or health systems. According to one study, 69 percent of employees were actively looking or willing to consider a new job in 2012. 

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

 

By Chelsea Rice

A program to retrain retiring specialists for part-time careers in adult primary care could bolster care teams in established physicians practices, community health centers, and retail health clinics.

SOURCE: HEALTHLEADERS MEDIA

Visit http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/HR-296076/Could-Retiring-Physicians-Solve-the-Primary-Care-Shortage to view the full article online.

 

By Sue Ter Maat

Although physician integration with hospitals and health systems is intended to reduce costs, it is increasing expenses in some instances in the short term, according to an online survey of hospital executives.

SOURCE: AMEDNEWS.COM

Visit http://amednews.com/article/20130722/business/130729981/6/ to view the full article online.

 

By Bob Herman

Employee productivity, staff retention and the quality of hires are all major issues within the hospital and health care workforce, and many labor trends related to those issues bubbled to the surface last year, according to the 2013/14 Human Capital Effectiveness Report from PwC.

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce-labor-management/6-hospital-workforce-trends-2012.html to view the full article online.

 

By Zack Budryk

A new report from the American Hospital Association Workforce Center provides hospital executives with tools to define their present and future workforce needs and fine-tune their strategies for sourcing, retention, recruiting, onboarding, and retirement, AHA News Now reports.

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/hospitals-need-effective-workplace-planning/2013-09-09 to view the full article online.

 

By Heather Punke

While the health care industry added 32,700 jobs last month, hospitals added just 900 in August, according to the most recent seasonally adjusted numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce-labor-management/hospitals-made-marginal-job-gains-in-august.html to view the full article online.

 

By Heather Punke

Nearly half—48 percent—of nursing jobs go unfilled for an average of six weeks, according to a recent CareerBuilder survey, conducted by Harris Interactive.

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce-labor-management/healthcare-organizations-struggling-to-fill-nursing-positions-survey-finds.html to view the full article online.

 

By Heather Punke

Although many hospitals and health care systems have recently instituted layoffs to stay afloat, some health care organizations are still having trouble filling their open positions. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey, 48 percent of nursing jobs and 39 percent of allied health jobs go unfilled on average for six weeks or longer.

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce-labor-management/3-tips-for-hospitals-to-improve-employee-recruitment.html to view the full article online.

 

By Debra Beaulieu

Family physicians top the list of most-recruited doctors, followed by general internists, spots they've held for seven years in a row, according to a new survey from the physician search firm, Merritt Hawkins.

SOURCE: FIERCE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/topics/hr-workforce-management?page=1 to view the full article online.

 
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COMPENSATION

By Andrew M. Seaman

Paying doctors in small practices bonuses for the quality of care they provide leads to a modest increase in the number of patients who get the recommended treatment for their conditions, according to a new study.

SOURCE: THE BALTIMORE SUN / REUTERS

Visit http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/sns-rt-us-paying-doctors-20130910,0,5929370.story to view the full article online.

 

By Frank Irving

In its 2013 Physician Compensation Survey, the consulting firm predicts physicians' median salary will increase 2.4 percent in 2014. Doctors in group-based practices can expect to see larger pay increases (3.7 percent) than those in hospital-based settings (2.2 percent).

SOURCE: HEALTHCARE FINANCE NEWS

Visit http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/physician-salaries-projected-increase to view the full article online.

 

By Susan Sulisz, Annette Bussineau, and Russ Wilson

In response to the sweeping changes brought by health care reform, health care organizations are restructuring to position themselves to survive the challenges ahead. With reimbursement levels (and, thus, the bottom line) increasingly contingent on clinical performance, many acute-care providers are beginning to employ physicians in executive positions.

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce-labor-management/double-jeopardy-assessing-the-reasonableness-of-physician-executive-compensation.html to view the full article online.

 

By Debra Beaulieu

Female physicians, when more comfortable discussing pay and advancement with their colleagues, may be more inclined to advocate for more equitable pay and recognition for themselves, suggested Molly Cooke, M.D., in an invited commentary to a new study published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine. The study revealed that the pay gap between men and women in medicine has now grown to more than $56,000 a year.

SOURCE: FIERCE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

Visit http://www.fiercepracticemanagement.com/story/gender-pay-gap-grows-questions-remain/2013-09-03 to view the full article online.

 

By Russ Wilson and Susan Sulisz

The only constant is change—and nowhere is this truer than in today's health care industry. The impact of health care reform cannot be overestimated. And when we consider reform in combination with other market forces (rising medical cost trends, growth in chronic care conditions, aging population, etc.), the pressure on health care organizations to perform is intense. Added to this volatile business environment is continued media scrutiny of executive pay in major health care organizations. 

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce-labor-management/pay-for-performance-in-healthcare-organizations-time-for-a-fresh-look-at-metrics-and-targets.html to view the full article online.

 

By Dan Bowman

The role of the hospital CIO has grown tremendously over the past two decades—and has undergone dramatic change since 2009. Four years ago, CIO responsibilities were sent into overdrive with the passage of the Healthcare Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. Hospitals and other eligible professionals suddenly had to install electronic health record systems to meet specific standards for Meaningful Use or risk paying a financial price.

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTH IT

Visit http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/how-much-do%20hospital-cios-earn-big-headaches-few-rewards/2013-08-26 to view the full article online.

 
GENERAL HR

By Pamela Lewis Dolan

Three physicians are calling on organized medicine to change the standard industry guidelines on social media use that call on doctors to separate their personal and professional online personas.

SOURCE: AMEDNEWS.COM

Visit http://amednews.com/article/20130827/business/130829996/8/ to view the full article online.

 

By Alicia Caramenico 

A quarter of doctors and surgeons and a third of nurses surveyed have been bullied to behave in ways that are bad for patient care, according to a new U.K. survey released Monday.

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/docs-nurses-bullied-poor-care/2013-09-10 to view the full article online.

 

By Marie McCullough

Anyone who has been in the work world for a while knows that now and then, tempers flare and civility suffers. But what if you were subjected to nastiness—insults, yelling, cursing, condescension, humiliating jokes, the cold shoulder—on a constant basis? Assessing the frequency and impact of verbal abuse in nurses' workplaces was one of the aims of the RN Work Project, a 10-year, multistate study of registered nurses' work life, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton.

SOURCE: PHILLY.COM

Visit http://articles.philly.com/2013-08-18/news/41422801_1_verbal-abuse-registered-nurses-mandatory-overtime to view the full article online.

 

The newly expanded role that pharmacists in Canada now have in helping manage the health of patients can benefit both patients and physicians, according to an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

SOURCE: NEWSWISE

Visit http://www.newswise.com/articles/expanded-role-for-pharmacists-is-an-opportunity-to-offer-better-patient-care to view the full article online.

 

By Ilene MacDonald

The length of time it takes to hire nurses and allied health staff is having a negative effect on health care organizations, particularly overworked employees who suffer from low morale and patients who don't get attention when they need it, according to a new Career Builder study.

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/unfilled-vacancies-take-toll-hospitals-workers/2013-08-15 to view the full article online.

 
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PHYSICIANS

By Ilene MacDonald

Forty percent of doctors would pick a different career if they had to do it all over again, according to the 2013 Great American Physician Survey.

SOURCE: FIERCE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

Visit http://www.fiercepracticemanagement.com/story/survey-40-docs-would-pick-new-career-if-they-could-turn-back-time/2013-09-06 to view the full article online.

 

By Frank Irving

Physicians are worried about the future. Some are downright pessimistic.

These physician attitudes are gleaned from health IT services firm athenahealth’s annual Physician Sentiment Index (PSI) report. 

SOURCE: HEALTHCARE FINANCE NEWS

Visit http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/physician-sentiment-report to view the full article online.

 
HOSPITAL NEWS

By Helen Adamopoulos

The average cost of a hospital stay in the U.S. went up by 90 percent from 2000 to 2010, climbing from $17,390 to $33,079, according to a new market report from Health Industry Distributors Association, a trade organization representing medical products distributors.

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/racs-/-icd-9-/-icd-10/hospital-stay-cost-up-90-percent-since-2000-report-says.html to view the full article online.

 

By Jon Cohen

I visited cardiologist Eric Topol at the Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla, California, one day this summer. He’d had a busy morning seeing patients and, by about noon, was claiming to have already saved the medical system thousands of dollars using his iPhone and a pocket-sized ultrasound machine. Then he pointed to the stethoscope in his pocket and said he hasn’t used it in three years. "I should just throw it out," he said. "This is basically a worthless icon of medicine."

SOURCE: MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

Visit http://www.technologyreview.com/news/518881/this-doctor-will-save-you-money/ to view the full article online.

 
MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP

By Lauren Stiller Rikleen

The Stanford School of Medicine (SSoM) recently launched an initiative to increase the representation of women on its faculty. The program is rooted in data that should resonate with any business or profession confronting its own gender gap in the leadership ranks.

SOURCE: HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW

Visit http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/08/how_stanford_medical_school_ho.html to view the full article online.

 

By John Commins

The pace of hospital job growth has slowed to a crawl this year. The root cause is "not just health care reform," says one analyst, citing about $100 billion of other cuts since 2010.

SOURCE: HEALTHLEADERS MEDIA

Visit http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/LED-296065/Funding-Cuts-Spur-Healthcare-Job-Shifts to view the full article online.

 
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