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ASHHRA eNews Brief: September 2014
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The ASHHRA annual conference has been pre-approved by the HR Certification Institute for 18.0 general recertification credit hours, 15.0 strategic business management recertification credit hours, and 1.5 California specific recertification credit hours.

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

 

Presenting Dr. David Nash, dean of the Jefferson School of Population Health, as the keynote speaker during the motivational breakfast at the ASHHRA annual conference.

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

 

Start your conference day with sunrise yoga sponsored by CareerBuilder. Yoga mats will be provided and you get to keep them!

Visit http://www.ashhra.org/conference/2014/schedule.shtml#sunriseyoga 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.

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

 
AHA RESOURCES

Each year, the journal, OR Manager, takes a survey of subscribers who are, well, OR managers. Results are provided separately for hospital ORs versus ambulatory surgery centers. I’d like to highlight their trend data for average RN turnover rate below. You can see the effect of the recession years; it surprises me that there was such a high rate in 2011.

SOURCE: AHA RESOURCE CENTER BLOG

Visit http://aharesourcecenter.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/operating-rooms-rn-turnover-trends-2004-to-2014/ to view the full article online.

 

This compensation survey provides median and average base compensation and total cash compensation for executives in hospitals and health systems. This includes executives in the C-suite, as well as a few other positions. The list of positions at health systems is more comprehensive.

SOURCE: AHA RESOURCE CENTER BLOG

Visit http://aharesourcecenter.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/2014-hospital-compensation-surveys-executives/ to view the full article online.

 

Trends in physician employment by health systems are illustrated by SK&A in two comparative maps – one for November 2011 and another for March 2014 – showing the changes in physician employment rates state by state over the past three years.

SOURCE: AHA RESOURCE CENTER BLOG

Visit http://aharesourcecenter.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/physician-employment-trends-in-health-systems/ to view the full article online.

 
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WORKFORCE

By Heather Punke

Nearly 18 percent of newly licensed registered nurses leave their first nursing job within the first year, and roughly 34 percent leave within two years, according to a study in Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice.

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce-labor-management/nearly-1-in-5-nurses-leaves-first-job-within-a-year-survey-finds.html to view the full article online.

 

By Jane Jensen

Health care reform has hit the hospital industry on two fronts. For most hospitals, the primary concern has been the impact on the industry's business model and the need to reinvent that model as the focus of care shifts from volume to quality, efficiency and population health, with corresponding shifts in metrics, reimbursement levels and the payer mix.

SOURCE: BECKER’S HOSPITAL REVIEW

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/workforce-labor-management/workforce-planning-in-the-healthcare-industry-post-reform.html to view the full article online.

 

By Katie Sullivan

Fifty years after the Nurse Training Act of 1964, and as many of those original nurses retire, the U.S. will need to produce 1.1 million new registered nurses by 2022 to fill jobs and replace retirees, according to an announcement from the American Nurses Association.

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/us-must-produce-11-million-nurses-2022-meet-demand/2014-09-04 to view the full article online.

 

By David Weldon

With the big push toward data collecting and using data to lower costs and improve patient care, health care organizations are finding themselves in need of data analysts.

SOURCE: HEALTHCARE FINANCE NEWS

Visit http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/spinning-data-gold to view the full article online.

 
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COMPENSATION

Workplace flexibility, the ability to work with people they work well with and opportunities for career advancement are less significant when it comes to job happiness.

SOURCE: WORLD AT WORK

Visit http://www.worldatwork.org/adimComment?id=75890&from=Compensation%20News%20All to view the full article online.

 

By Shara Yurkiewicz

Cardiologists' overall salary declined for the first time since 2010, with an 8 percent drop between 2012 and 2013. That brings the median income to $505,266, down from $548,587.

SOURCE: MEDPAGE TODAY

Visit http://www.medpagetoday.com/PracticeManagement/PracticeManagement/47551 to view the full article online.

 
GENERAL HR

By Anthony Brino

The human resources department may not be the first department in a health system that comes to mind in the transition to value-based care, but it is increasingly being seen as a source for potential innovation.

SOURCE: HEALTHCARE FINANCE NEWS

Visit http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/author/59541 to view the full article online.

 

By Chuck Green

Harrisburg Medical Center's staffing model, in place for about 20 years, had become antiquated. With the exception of nursing, departments had done a poor job adjusting personnel assignments based on their census, according to Rodney Smith, president and CEO of the Harrisburg, Ill. facility. "We were inefficient, and we recognized that."

SOURCE: HEALTHCARE FINANCE NEWS

Visit http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/overcoming-outdated-workforce-models to view the full article online.

 

By David Weldon

Health care has had a reputation for being one of the strongest industries for generating new jobs. But recent changes in reimbursements and a shift to accountable care models have changed the dynamic in some quarters.

SOURCE: HEALTHCARE FINANCE NEWS

Visit http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/hospital-recruiting-efforts-shift-data-and-outpatient-services to view the full article online.

 
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PHYSICIANS

By Zack Budryk

Physician engagement is more important than ever as health care shifts in the direction of value-based purchasing models like accountable care organizations (ACOs), John Wallace, vice president and general manager of ACO services at McKesson, writes in Becker's Hospital Review.

SOURCE: FIERCE HEALTHCARE

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/3-ways-improve-physician-engagement/2014-09-04 to view the full article online.

 

By David Ollier Weber

On this side of the surgical suite, you have the doctor known throughout the hospital as "the Raptor." He's earned his vulturine sobriquet not only because he's arrogant and disdainful – a terror to colleagues, nurses, residents and anyone who has to work with him – but also because he's famously rude and insulting to patients and families. Nobody actually likes him. And yet his surgical results are outstanding.

SOURCE: H&HN MAGAZINE

Visit http://www.hhnmag.com/display/HHN-news-article.dhtml?dcrPath=/templatedata/HF_Common/NewsArticle/data/HHN/Daily/2014/Aug/082614-weber-etiquette-based-medicine to view the full article online.

 

By Debra Beaulieu-Volk

Physician turnover stayed at a steady 6.8 percent over the past two years, but the number of doctors that retired from practicing increased drastically, reaching its highest-ever rate of 18 percent in 2013, according to the ninth annual Physician Retention Survey from the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) and Cejka Search.

SOURCE: FIERCE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

Visit http://www.fiercepracticemanagement.com/story/physician-turnover-flattens-more-docs-retire/2014-08-26 to view the full article online.

 

By Kimberly Leonard

Doctors complain that they waste an average of 48 minutes a day, or four hours a week, when they record their patients’ health information into digital records, a new study shows.

SOURCE: U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT

Visit http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/08/doctors-complain-of-time-wasted-on-electronic-health-records to view the full article online.

 

By Sandeep Jauhar

All too often these days, I find myself fidgeting by the doorway to my exam room, trying to conclude an office visit with one of my patients. When I look at my career at midlife, I realize that in many ways I have become the kind of doctor I never thought I'd be: impatient, occasionally indifferent, at times dismissive or paternalistic. Many of my colleagues are similarly struggling with the loss of their professional ideals.

SOURCE: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Visit http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-s-ailing-medical-system-a-doctors-perspective-1409325361 to view the full article online.

 
HOSPITAL NEWS

By Matthew Weinstock

Everyone is using the phrase "population health" these days. But what does it really mean? In these five interviews, we offer a glimpse at how some hospitals are developing a population health strategy and improving care in their communities and across the continuum.

SOURCE: HOSPITALS & HEALTH NETWORKS

Visit http://www.hhnmag.com/display/HHN-news-article.dhtml?dcrPath=/templatedata/HF_Common/NewsArticle/data/HHN/Daily/2014/Aug/082814-weinstock-strategies-population-health to view the full article online.

 

By Andrea J. Simon

I recently worked with a hospital to improve its cancer program. It had wonderful doctors and an up-to-date facility. Nurses were very patient-focused and the staff smiled a lot. What could be better?

SOURCE: HOSPITAL IMPACT

Visit http://www.hospitalimpact.org/index.php/2014/08/28/boost_patient_experience_at_first_point to view the full article online.

 
MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP

By Leanne Hoagland-Smith

In wrapping up this month’s theme on hiring smart, I was able to interview Sofia Mendez-Bork, chief human resource officer for HealthLinc Inc., a regional health care clinic with corporate offices in Valparaiso.

SOURCE: POST TRIBUNE (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES)

Visit http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/hoaglandsmith/29435462-452/leadership-in-human-resources-and-health-care-a-winning-combination.html to view the full article online.

 

By Debra Beaulieu-Volk

People always advise: Don't shy away from productive conflict. Letting problems fester, in the long run, leads to far more miscommunication and preventable issues. I'm far from alone in having trouble adopting this concept into my own behavior. Both professionally and personally, learning to call foul – at the right time, in the right way – is an area of high anxiety.

SOURCE: FIERCE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

Visit http://www.fiercepracticemanagement.com/story/4-ways-address-and-embrace-constructive-conflict/2014-09-03 to view the full article online.

 

By Marty Stempniak

We’re all well aware of the need to exercise caution when providing care, washing your hands to prevent the spread of infections and ticking other items off the checklist to avoid physically harming the patient. But what about the financial harm that clinicians can cause by making poor choices at the bedside?

SOURCE: HOSPITALS & HEALTH NETWORKS

Visit http://www.hhnmag.com/display/HHN-news-article.dhtml?dcrPath=/templatedata/HF_Common/NewsArticle/data/HHN/Daily/2014/Aug/stempniak-IHI-transparency-patient-costs to view the full article online.

 

Despite the sincere efforts of hospital leaders to improve physician relationships, a recent American College of Physicians Executives survey found that only 40 percent of those surveyed rated the relationship between hospitals and employed physicians as doing well.

SOURCE: CENTER FOR RURAL HEALTH POLICY ANALYSIS / STRATISHEALTH

Visit http://cph.uiowa.edu/ruralhealthvalue/education/Physician%20Relationships.pdf to view the full article online.

 
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