Do you know the secrets of using fear of loss as a tactic in hospital negotiations?
Impending Death of Hospitals
Thank God, You’re About to Be Treated by the Chief Transformation Officer! – Podcast
Hospitals are focusing their hard and few-earned dollars exactly where it counts, spending big bucks on the physician executives…
Thank God, You’re About to Be Treated by the Chief Transformation Officer! – Medical Group Minute
Hospitals are focusing their hard and few-earned dollars exactly where it counts, spending big bucks on the physician executives.
The Future of Healthcare Is Functions, Not Places
The issue is the function, patient care, not the location in which care is delivered.
What? Merged Hospitals Don’t Deliver Higher Quality! – Medical Group Minute
The healthcare world was supposedly abuzz last week when the New England Journal of Medicine published (on Jan 2, 2020) the report of a study that shows that consolidation in the hospital industry doesn’t lead to higher patient satisfaction or to higher quality.
Hospital Says Thanks For 30 Years Worth of Patients, but What Have You Done for Us Lately? – Success in Motion
Ride along with Mark as he talks about conquering the fear of branching out, a disease that plagues too many medical group leaders.
Is It Really Easier to Schedule Coverage of a Closed Hospital? – Podcast
We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.
Mitigating Against Risk to Physician Groups of Hospital Closure – Podcast
Another week, another hospital closes. Well, at least one.
Is It Really Easier to Schedule Coverage of a Closed Hospital? – Medical Group Minute
We used to joke about the name of Midway Hospital, an acute care hospital in L.A., saying that it was midway between life and death.
An anesthesiologist, commenting on my theme that inpatient care is becoming outpatient care and that the center of outpatient care isn’t the hospital but the freestanding facility, in his case the ASC, told me that I was missing an element in the analysis.
Mitigating Against Risk to Physician Groups of Hospital Closure – Medical Group Minute
Another week, another hospital closes. Well, at least one.
Yes, this is a popular topic for the blog, because each additional hospital closure underscores the risk for physicians and medical groups that don’t spread risk. The lesson applies to both hospital-based and office-based physicians, although not necessarily equally.