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ASHHRA eNews Brief: November 2014
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
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Read AHA President and CEO Rich Umbdenstock's message regarding the elections.

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

 

The enhanced survey includes both staff and leader positions. Save over $1,750 on the report and gain access to PwC's expertise in benchmarking and knowledge of the health care field, and relevant normative data in support of reward programs. Deadline to register is Friday, Nov. 14, 2014. 

Visit http://www.ashhra.org/publications/compensation_survey.shtml to view the full article online.

 

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® annually honors hospitals and health systems that continually work toward the Institute of Medicine's six quality aims – safety, patient-centeredness, effectiveness, efficiency, timeliness and equity. These organizations have demonstrated progress in achieving multiple aims and provide replicable models for the health care field. Join us on November 24 for the second half of this two-part webinar. 

Visit http://www.ashhra.org/learning/webinars.shtml#103014 to view the full article online.

 

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has gathered Ebola preparedness resources for hospitals and other facilities. If you have questions related to Ebola virus or hospital preparedness, you may submit your question to the AHA here. 

Visit http://www.aha.org/advocacy-issues/emergreadiness/ebola/index.shtml to view the full article online.

 
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The magazine Modern Healthcare has published a list of the top 100 best places to work in the health care field. This is a mix of suppliers, providers and insurers. The list provides the name, city and state of the company or organization as well as the following information...

Visit http://aharesourcecenter.wordpress.com/2014/11/06/top-100-best-places-to-work-in-health-care-2014/ to view the full article online.

 

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The term "hospitalist" was coined by Dr. Robert Wachter in the mid-1990s. Today, there are an estimated 44,000 hospitalists in the United States. This is a self-designated specialty, there is not yet board certification specifically for hospital medicine. This articles provides a brief overview of the dual role of hospitalists in many hospitals – caring for inpatients and also serving as experts to promote more efficient processes and best practices in the hospital setting.

Visit http://aharesourcecenter.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/hospitalists-how-many-are-there-and-what-is-their-role/ to view the full article online.

 

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Important note: This source excludes primary care physicians. The analysis was for non-primary care specialists only.

Visit http://aharesourcecenter.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/top-10-physician-specialties-that-will-grow-the-most-by-2025/ to view the full article online.

 
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WORKFORCE

By Jason A. Wolf, Hospital Impact

It was hard to engage in a health care conversation in recent weeks without hearing about the challenges presented and fear created by the global Ebola crisis. In the United States, the outcomes in Dallas brought home the complicated nature of a global health care system driven by protocol and process, and revealed that in striving for perfect outcomes, the health care system still built on human beings caring for human beings. This also means, as hard as we might work to avoid it, oversight or errors in health care happen.

Visit http://www.hospitalimpact.org/index.php/2014/10/23/support_care_for_health_workers_to_impro to view the full article online.

 

By Julie Bird, FierceHealthcare

With the health care sector poised to add 5 million jobs by 2020 – and demand already beginning to surge – health care reform created new and emerging jobs to the mix, according to a new report.

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/4-emerging-healthcare-jobs/2014-11-10 to view the full article online.

 

By Katie Sullivan, FierceHealthcare

Resilience training among intensive care unit (ICU) nurses may help them cope with stressful work experiences and prevent psychological side effects, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Critical Care.

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/resilience-training-may-help-prevent-icu-nurse-burnout/2014-11-04 to view the full article online.

 

By Bill Santamour, H&HN magazine

Just in time for Veterans Day, the American Hospital Association has released a toolkit to help your hospital recruit vets into health care careers. Hiring a veteran may sound like one of those feel-good things you’d like to do, but probably won’t spend a lot of time worrying about. But it can be a very sound business decision. 

Visit http://www.hhnmag.com/display/HHN-news-article.dhtml?dcrPath=/templatedata/HF_Common/NewsArticle/data/HHN/Daily/2014/Nov/hiring-veterans-toolkist-recruiting-blog-santamour to view the full article online.

 
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COMPENSATION

World at Work

Most employees around the world received pay increases in 2014 – and they can expect to receive comparable increases in 2015. 

Visit http://www.worldatwork.org/adimComment?id=76174&from=Total%20Rewards%20News%20All to view the full article online.

 

By Katy Mena-Berkley, MD News

Drawing on a limited pool of providers, hospitals and other medical facilities are working to assemble attractive compensation packages. Health care search and consulting firm Merritt Hawkins offers an inside look at today’s most popular recruiting incentives.

Visit http://www.mdnews.com/news/2014_11/surveying-incentives-in-physician-recruitment.aspx to view the full article online.

 
GENERAL HR

By Roni Caryn Rabin, The Washington Post

Two years ago, Inova Health System recruited a top executive who was not a physician, had never worked in hospital administration and barely knew the difference between Medicare and Medicaid.

Visit http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-hospital-job-patient-satisfaction-officer/2014/11/03/ed244104-5301-11e4-892e-602188e70e9c_story.html to view the full article online.

 

By Paul Barr, H&HN magazine

The baby boom generation will deliver a blow to health care once its members start to retire in large numbers, but this provides an opportunity for new employment structures to take hold.

Visit http://www.hhnmag.com/display/HHN-news-article.dhtml?dcrPath=/templatedata/HF_Common/NewsArticle/data/HHN/Magazine/2014/Oct/boomer-challenge-workforce to view the full article online.

 

By Zack Budryk, FierceHealthcare

Many nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) believe social media use has helped their careers, according to a new survey by The Clinical Advisor.

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/does-social-media-boost-healthcare-careers/2014-11-03 to view the full article online.

 
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PHYSICIANS

By Bill Santamour, H&HN magazine

Remember back when hospital executives and physicians had what might charitably be described as an adversarial relationship? One side regarded the other as profligate prima donnas; the other peered across the great clinical-management divide and saw penny-pinching buttinskies. 

Visit http://www.hhnmag.com/display/HHN-news-article.dhtml?dcrPath=/templatedata/HF_Common/NewsArticle/data/HHN/Magazine/2014/Nov/editors-note-physician-engagement to view the full article online.

 

By Marty Stempnia, H&HN magazine

They’re out there, and they’re powerful – accountable care organizations (ACOs) led by independent physicians. Their goal, as with all ACOs, is to coordinate care better, improve quality and control costs. Many of these physician leaders view hospitals as cost centers, and they’re creating payer contracts with incentives to keep patients out of beds. Some are generating tens of millions of dollars by doing so.

Visit http://www.hhnmag.com/display/HHN-news-article.dhtml?dcrPath=/templatedata/HF_Common/NewsArticle/data/HHN/Magazine/2014/Nov/cov_docACO to view the full article online.

 

By Steven Reinberg, CBS News

Changing how doctors communicate during shift changes in hospitals reduced the risk of adverse events in patients by 30 percent, a new study found.

Visit http://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-key-thing-doctors-can-do-to-reduce-hospital-errors/ to view the full article online.

 
HOSPITAL NEWS

By Kent Bottles, Hospital Impact

Physician executives trying to respond to health care reform are bombarded by conferences and experts imploring them to change their organization's culture. What is culture? What culture worked best in the old fee-for-service health care environment and what changes should hospitals implement in the new value-based payment world?

Visit http://www.hospitalimpact.org/index.php/2014/11/06/what_the_philadelphia_eagles_can_teach_h to view the full article online.

 

By Zack Budryk, FierceHealthcare

A standardized, team-based approach could dramatically cut the use of cardiac monitor alarms and reduce alarm fatigue – a top health technology hazard and hospital patient safety concern, according to a study published in Pediatrics. 

Visit http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/team-based-approach-cuts-alarm-fatigue-80-percent/2014-11-10 to view the full article online.

 

By Marty Stempniak, H&HN magazine

Health care is an industry that's ripe for disruption, with various inconveniences posing the potential to erode the customer's experience. And as hospitals increasingly are being asked to reinvent what they do, leaders are looking to disruptors in the tech and startup world to aid in the transformation.

Visit http://www.hhnmag.com/display/HHN-news-article.dhtml?dcrPath=/templatedata/HF_Common/NewsArticle/data/HHN/Daily/2014/Nov/intermountain-health-innovation-blog-stempniak to view the full article online.

 
MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP

By Lena J. Weiner, HealthLeaders Media

As baby boomers head into retirement, many health care organizations face a leadership crisis. The antidote? Develop your best employees into homegrown leaders.

Visit http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/HR-309940/3-Way-to-Keep-the-Leadership-Pipeline-Full to view the full article online.

 

By Tamara Rosin, Becker’s Hospital Review

At the Becker's Hospital Review CEO Strategy Roundtable in Chicago on Nov. 5, Daniel Morissette, CFO of Stanford (Calif.) Hospital and Clinics, Michael Allen, CFO of Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, Wis., Donald Longpre, CFO of North Ottawa Community Health System in Grand Haven, Mich., David DiLoreto, MD, president and CEO of Presence Health Partners in Chicago and Timothy H. Baker, president of Principle Valuation, shared their insights on what constitutes a successful leader in health care systems today in a panel discussion, moderated by Scott Becker, JD, CPA, publisher of Becker's Healthcare.

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/what-makes-a-successful-health-system-leader.html to view the full article online.

 

By Dan Bowman, FierceHealthIT

Between implementing federal government initiatives and ensuring the safety and security of IT systems, it's easy to forget the importance of relationship building at all levels for hospital chief information officers in order to achieve widespread success. That message, however, was delivered loud and clear by a trio of industry leaders Thursday afternoon at the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives annual fall forum in San Antonio, Texas.

Visit http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/hospital-cios-cultivate-relationships-achieve-success/2014-10-31 to view the full article online.

 

By Richard Pizzi, Healthcare Finance News

There are at least 30 ways to grow patient satisfaction at your health care facility, but 10 key service standards should do the trick.

Visit http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/10-ways-boost-patient-satisfaction to view the full article online.

 
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