Dear ASHHRA Colleagues,

Vote now on the 2020 ASHHRA Board slate! Members were sent an email including a unique link to the ballot, which includes biographies and statements to review for each of the six nominees on the slate. The deadline to submit your ballot is Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. 

 

Is it too early to get excited for ASHHRA19? I don’t think so!

Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2:00-3:00 p.m. CT
The health care field experienced record high mergers and acquisitions in 2018, and the pace is expected to continue as declining reimbursements and rising costs squeeze already slim margins. This webinar will review the importance of integrating two cultures and identify ways to turn potential disruption into opportunity.

Attending the annual conference this September? New Learning Sessions have been recently added to the 2019 Conference Program:
• Employment Practices Under Current Medical Marijuana Laws

• Leveraging Strategic Communication Tools to Drive Employee Engagement

• Understanding the Essentials of ADA Disability Compliance

• Human Trafficking Identification and Response in the Health Care Setting

• How Do You Compare? A Deep Dive into HR Benchmarks

• Latest Trends and Insights on Health Care Organizing Across the Country

 

Like all Americans, we learned with shock and heavy hearts of the tragic events in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. There is no place for hate and violence in our country. Yet, these senseless acts continue to plague our communities. It is clear that a much stronger effort is needed to address violence and the toll it takes on our communities and colleagues. Through the AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative, America’s hospitals and health systems are taking a united stance to increase community awareness and improve interventions to stop the cycle of violence in our homes, jobs and neighborhoods. 

AHA News
Members of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning communities are more likely than their heterosexual peers to experience health threats such as major depression, bipolar disorder and substance use disorder, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

UVA Health, based in Charlottesville, Va., aims to provide the best and safest care and service, informed by its clinical discoveries and in the healthiest work environment, while training the workforce of the future and driving value.  

Modern Healthcare
Annual and long-term performance-based incentives have driven pay hikes of 4% to 7% each of the last four years, according to Modern Healthcare’s annual Executive Compensation Survey. The trend does not appear to be abating.

HR Technologist
Are predictive analytics all they're hyped up to be? For healthcare executives, they're a critical solution to the skills shortage our industry is facing. Patient care could suffer unless hospitals adopt automated workforce management tools for scheduling and staffing.

Federation of American Hospitals
Five major hospital associations have released  Modernizing the HCAHPS Survey: Recommendations from Patient Experience Leaders, a paper that explores how to update patient experience surveying to best improve patient care. 

Quartz
Recent studies reveal that more than half of doctors report symptoms of burnout. Suicide rates are twice as high among physicians compared to other professions. Even more alarming is that female doctors are 1.6 times more likely than male doctors to die by suicide.

HealthAffairs

Healthcare Dive
A majority of large employers plan to roll out more virtual care options next year as one way to curtail health costs, according to a report released from the National Business Group on Health.