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Greetings, ASHHRA Colleagues!
March 2021 is here. We celebrate St. Patrick's Day, Spring Break, and, most notably, Health Care HR Week this month. It has been a year since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and it is important that we take some time to recover and begin our wellness journey. We always overlook how important it is to ensure that our minds, bodies, and spirits are restored. I am a firm believer in taking the time to ensure that you are healthy and ready to market. This is critical in order to ensure that we continue to make progress on the road to recovery.
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Get ready for a week of recognition next week! Each day during Health Care HR Week, ASHHRA will highlight Teams and Initiatives on social media (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn). Share your activities for the week using the hashtag #HCHRWeek and tag us (be sure to give us a follow so we can see your posts!). We’ll also be featuring ASHHRA specials EXCLUSIVELY for HCHR Week, so keep an eye out for the messages in your inbox!
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It’s been 20 years since Julia Roberts starred in the Oscar-winning tour de force “Erin Brockovich.” The film turned an unknown legal researcher into a 20th century icon by showcasing how her dogged persistence was the impelling force behind the largest medical settlement lawsuit in history. Since then, Erin hasn’t been resting on her laurels … she continues to fight hard and win big! Don’t miss the ASHHRA21 keynote presentation!
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Participation in the HR Metrics Tool survey has significant benefits, including insightful industry comparisons to 31 metrics that fall into critical categories, personalized reports, and access to PwC’s proprietary web-based reporting tool. Register to participate before data collection ends!
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Words and language matter in compassionate care, especially in behavioral health settings. Download and share this poster with your teams to show that changing how we speak can remove the stigma around mental health issues.
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Applications are due March 26, 2021 for the AHA’s Next Generation Leaders Fellowship. This fellowship matches fellows with an elite health care mentor who will guide them through the planning and execution of a yearlong transformation project at their hospital or health system. This exclusive opportunity focuses on developing leaders and empowering them to bring about real and lasting change in the hospital and health systems in which they serve. The program will help emerging leaders tackle key issues and challenges affecting health care affordability, cost, quality and safety.
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STAT
The pandemic has significantly impeded the careers of women in academic science, technology, math and medicine fields, according to a new report. Eve Higginbotham, chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine committee that wrote the report, discusses the significance of this negative trend in fields where women are already underrepresented.
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Fierce Healthcare
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the pace of artificial intelligence adoption, and healthcare leaders are confident AI can help solve some of today’s toughest challenges. According to a new survey from KPMG, 82% of health care and life sciences executives want to see their organizations more aggressively adopt AI technology.
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American Hospital Association
The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated deep health disparities across our communities. We must now seize this opportunity to take actions to address systemic inequities that have led to disparities in care outcomes for some patient populations. The AHA’s Community Health Improvement and Institute for Diversity and Health Equity are co-leading the Accelerating Health Equity virtual conference, March 16-18. It’s a timely and important opportunity for health care leaders and professionals to deploy evidence-based strategies, proven resources and promising practices that can lead to sustained change.
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Health Affairs
There is a nationwide conversation right now about health care costs. In looking at these costs — which include everything from billing, insurance, human resources, legal, electronic medical records, and other software updates, to hardware, facility costs, and taxes — it is clear that there is waste or excess in the administration of our health care system.
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HealthLeaders Media
These are turbulent and trying times for health systems striving to deliver quality care at a sustainable cost. As health systems are called upon to perform like never before, they must also seek new ways to transform to meet the evolving needs of our "new normal."
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American Hospital Association
Health care systems must partner in effective community-based approaches in caring for populations, write three leaders from Providence. Using evidence from more than four decades of place-based investments, the authors write that comprehensive, multi-dimensional community investment strategies can measurably advance human health and well-being.
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Becker's Hospital Review
Being promoted to a management position is supposed to be a positive step in someone's career. However, some managers feel their new position is less meaningful than their last one, causing them to eventually step down. Organizations can predict who is feeling this way about their job, according to a Harvard Business Review article.
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Healthcare Finance
Organizations must reorient to care for patients in and out of the clinical setting, according to Anjali Taneja, executive director of Casa de Salud.
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American Hospital Association
Hospitals and health systems lost 2,200 jobs in February, as U.S. jobs overall increased by 379,000, according to preliminary data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Health Affairs
Though many parts of the US government and society have struggled to respond to COVID, large integrated multi-hospital health systems appear to have made a decisive difference in this pandemic, potentially leading to a reimagining of the role of health systems in our health care and public health infrastructure.
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Healthcare Dive
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an upheaval in health care cybersecurity, according to a new report from CI Security, as the use of personal devices to conduct work tasks has boomed.
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Healthcare Finance
Despite recent declines in coronavirus cases nationwide, many hospitals may still have workforce shortages over the next 30 days due to COVID-19 hospitalizations, according to estimates from George Washington University.
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