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ASHHRA eNews Brief: August 2014
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ASHHRA NEWS

The CHHR pencil and paper examination will be offered on Tuesday, September 30, immediately following the ASHHRA annual conference in Chicago. Register to take the exam by September 2.

Visit http://www.ashhra.org/conference/2014/schedule.shtml#chhrac to view the full article online.

 

Employers and job seekers, the ASHHRA Career Center is your primary resource for recruitment and job search needs. Post a job, search through open positions or search through resumes to fill a position. Vist the Career Center now.

Visit http://careers.ashhra.org/jobseekers/ to view the full article online.

 

ASHHRA has received reports from members having trouble logging in or resetting their password. If you come across either of these issues, please contact ASHHRA at ashhra@aha.org with your full name and membership number so we can assist you.

Visit mailto:ashhra@aha.org to view the full article online.

 
AHA RESOURCES


September 9, 2014, 2:00 p.m. ET, 1:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. PT (90 minute webinar). 

With proper training, department engagement and supervision, volunteers can be incorporated as a team member into any hospital department. Learn about the high touch, high impact Ambassador Program assignment. Presenter(s): Angela Berns, Manager, Volunteer Services, UnityPoint Health - St. Luke's & Kathy Berube, CAVS, Director of Volunteer Services, Maine Medical Center.

Member cost:  $39.99, Non-member cost:  $59.99.

Visit https://ams.aha.org/eweb/?ahabu=AHVRP&webcode=eventinfo&Reg_evt_key=D07D256D-385E-4FCF-A836-DD875190C6DD to view the full article online.

 

By kmgarber

Here are the top 10 largest accountable care organizations according to the number of covered lives, starting with the largest first.

SOURCE: AHA RESOURCE CENTER BLOG

Visit http://tinyurl.com/p94g7ev to view the full article online.

 

By kmgarber

Characteristics of local areas that are served by accountable care organizations (ACOs) were studied based on the 227 ACOs identified as of August 2012.  The findings were that over half (55 percent) of Americans live in an area served by one or more ACOs.

SOURCE: AHA RESOURCE CENTER BLOG

Visit http://tinyurl.com/puhwvfk to view the full article online.

 

By kmgarber

It is always exciting to find examples of organization charts, which explains why I led off with that fact in the title of this post.  They can be found in the second document cited below–the Profiles–which takes a look at 13 leading academic medical centers in the United States.  

SOURCE: AHA RESOURCE CENTER BLOG

Visit http://tinyurl.com/na5l8qd to view the full article online.

 

By kmgarber

These are three recently-published articles dealing with the topic of how to deal with physicians who behave in an unprofessional manner.  Dr. Paskert, who is the chief medical officer at Mountain States Health Alliance (Washington County, TN), gives a first-person account of how to work with physicians in a collegial intervention approach.  This is an intervention that is informal, attempts to elicit voluntary cooperation of the physician, and is a step below corrective action. 

SOURCE: AHA RESOURCE CENTER BLOG

Visit http://tinyurl.com/mv7jbfy to view the full article online.

 

By kmgarber

One of the most influential articles published in the Harvard Business Review in the past decade was Kim & Mauborgne’s article, "Blue Ocean Strategy."  The authors have followed up with a related topic in the May 2014 issue of HBR, this time focusing on leadership.

SOURCE: AHA RESOURCE CENTER BLOG

Visit http://tinyurl.com/mz7tnep to view the full article online.

 
Society for Human Resource Management
WORKFORCE

By Molly Gamble 

The difference between functional vs. dysfunctional employee turnover. It is estimated that the total cost of turnover ranges between 90 percent and 200 percent of the leaver's salary, according to a blog post from Select International. But not all instances of turnover are necessarily bad. 

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce-labor-management/why-employee-turnover-isn-t-always-a-bad-thing.html to view the full article online.

 

By Heather Punke

A program from Parallon, a provider of health care business process and operational services, called Specialty Training Apprenticeship for Registered Nurses, has been implemented in 10 Florida hospitals to help them develop specialty-trained nurses.

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce-labor-management/new-program-addresses-specialty-nurse-shortage-in-florida.html to view the full article online.

 

By Katie Sullivan 

Recruiting and hiring more male nurses is a good way to diversify the hospital workforce and can ultimately benefit patients, according to experts from American Sentinel University. "It's important that nursing diversification mirror what is happening in our population. Men provide unique perspectives and skills that are important to the profession and reflect the quality of care delivered," Christopher Kowal, R.N., adjunct professor of nursing at American Sentinel University, said in the statement.

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/hospitals-must-recruit-male-nurses-diversify-workforce/2014-08-12 to view the full article online.

 

By Jonathan H. Burroughs

It is remarkable how much of a disconnect there is between an organization's strategic plan and how it compensates and incentivizes physicians. 

SOURCE: HOSPITAL IMPACT

Visit http://www.hospitalimpact.org/index.php/2014/08/06/involve_physicians_in_strategic_planning to view the full article online.

 
HealthStream
COMPENSATION

Salary transparency – disclosing the pay of all employees at a company – is a hotly contested subject among workers and employers, as concerns over privacy and potential lawsuits clash with hopes that transparency could actually ensure pay equality and foster a competitive meritocracy within firms.

SOURCE: WORLD AT WORK

Visit http://www.worldatwork.org/adimComment?id=75674&from=Compensation%20News%20All to view the full article online.

 

By Rachel Landen 

Executive salaries at not-for-profit hospitals and health systems have come under scrutiny, with critical attention focused on multimillion-dollar compensation packages. But those supersize pay packages are not the norm, according to Modern Healthcare's 34th annual Executive Compensation Survey.

SOURCE: MODERN HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140809/MAGAZINE/308099980/hospital-executives-see-slower-growth-in-compensation to view the full article online.

 
GENERAL HR

By Heather Punke

More than 2 million Americans leave their job voluntarily every month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics – and that number has been continually growing, according to a Forbes report.

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce-labor-management/5-keys-to-keep-top-employees-from-quitting.html to view the full article online.

 

By Andrea J. Simon, Ph.D.

I work with health care providers to help them become more innovative. Inevitably, they ask me to make it simple. So here's a cheat sheet on 10 things to consider for a more innovative hospital culture.

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/10-considerations-more-innovative-hospital-culture/2014-08-08 to view the full article online.

 

By Rodney J. Moore

With the job market showing improvement, it might be time to re-evaluate if you are doing your utmost at keeping your best employees happy so they don’t go elsewhere. 

SOURCE: HEALTHCARE FINANCE NEWS

Visit http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/keys-keeping-your-employees-happy to view the full article online.

 

By Jason A. Wolf

Consumer choice is the new frontier of the health care marketplace. While I haven't found anyone that challenges that fact, I encounter many that still resist this reality in their actions and efforts. In the simplest of terms, consumers are people that select a product and pay for it, and we see this happen in significant ways in health care today.

SOURCE: HOSPITAL IMPACT

Visit http://www.hospitalimpact.org/index.php/2014/07/24/patient_satisfaction_experience_not_one to view the full article online.

 
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PHYSICIANS

Doctors make a lot of recommendations for their patients. But do they incorporate these suggestions into their own lives? With this question in mind, we asked The Experts: What is the most common piece of advice doctors give – but don't take themselves?

SOURCE: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Visit http://online.wsj.com/articles/what-is-the-most-common-piece-of-advice-doctors-givebut-dont-take-1407760460?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LatestHeadlines to view the full article online.

 

By Stephanie Bouchard

A new tool for modeling the physician workforce is now available for free to hospital and health system administrators, policy makers and others.

SOURCE: HEALTHCARE FINANCE NEWS

Visit http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/modeling-future-physician-workforce to view the full article online.

 

By Debra Beaulieu-Volk

Roughly one-third of physicians do moonlight outside of their practices, according to Medical Economics' 2013 annual survey. Their motivations aren't necessarily just extra cash, noted an article in the magazine, but also to add variety into their work life, diversify their skills or contribute a public service. 

SOURCE: FIERCE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

Visit http://www.fiercepracticemanagement.com/story/busy-mid-career-physicians-moonlight-most/2014-08-06 to view the full article online.

 

By Abigail Zuger, M.D.

Can the average consumer glean any information at all from the top doc lists? Here is one tip: Pay attention to the source of the information. Traits that doctors prize in their colleagues may be different from the ones patients rank high.

SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES, WELL BLOG

Visit http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/top-doctors-dead-or-alive/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1 to view the full article online.

 

By Ryan Chiavetta

A pair of training programs exposes medical students to art and loss, teaches them about the emotional aspects of patient care and helps them avoid burnout.

SOURCE: HEALTH LEADERS MEDIA

Visit http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/HR-307215/Training-Physicians-for-Empathy to view the full article online.

 

By Ferdous Al-Faruque

A majority of doctor’s offices and hospitals have adopted electronic health records, according to new studies by the Department of Health and Human Services.

SOURCE: THE HILL

Visit http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/214583-majority-of-doctors-go-digital to view the full article online.

 
HOSPITAL NEWS

By Katie Sullivan

Intermountain Healthcare launched a new emergency ground transportation program that places specially trained nurses in ambulances carrying critically injured patients, KLS.com reported.

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/intermountain-healthcare-puts-critical-care-nurses-ambulance-transports/2014-08-11 to view the full article online.

 

By Katie Sullivan

Are United States hospitals prepared to deal with potential Ebola patients? Depends on who you ask. Although the risk of the virus spreading to the area is extremely low, Pennsylvania Surgeon General Carrie DeLeone said most, if not all hospitals, within the stare have the equipment necessary to isolate someone with the illness and adequately protect health care workers and the public, The Patriot News reported.

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/are-us-hospitals-prepared-potential-ebola-patients/2014-08-05 to view the full article online.

 
MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP

By Jayne O’Donnell

The Affordable Care Act has been dramatically changing the way hospitals do business, forcing them to rethink which patients they admit and focus on keeping people healthy. For Kaiser Permanente, however, it's been largely business as usual, says CEO Bernard Tyson, who took the helm a year ago.

SOURCE: USA TODAY

Visit http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/06/kaiser-permanente-obamacare-accountable-care-organizations-hospitals/12763591/ to view the full article online.

 

By Marty Stempniak

Searching for a new hospital chief executive in 2014 has to be quite a bit different task than it was 15, or even five years ago. I know the mission on either side of that timeline has always been to care for patients in the best fashion possible. But health care reform – and its calls to deliver value to the health care consumer, avoid unnecessary care and focus on wellness – has thrown things a bit topsy-turvy in the business.

SOURCE: HOSPITALS & HEALTH NETWORKS

Visit http://www.hhnmag.com/display/HHN-news-article.dhtml?dcrPath=/templatedata/HF_Common/NewsArticle/data/HHN/Daily/2014/Aug/080414-stempniak-new-ceo-thr-berdan to view the full article online.

 

By Jacqueline Fellows

Many third-party organizations rate hospital quality, but health care leaders are finding limited value in the plethora of grades, stars and rankings.

SOURCE: HEALTHLEADERS MAGAZINE

Visit http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/QUA-307295/Keeping-Score to view the full article online.

 

By Zack Budryk

As hospital CEO turnover continues to rise, organizations on the lookout for new leaders may want help identifying narcisstic candidates who may make a good impression but could actually be detriments to the workplace. 

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/study-finds-surprisingly-effective-way-identify-narcissistic-ceos/2014-08-06 to view the full article online.

 
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