This is a pressing issue for hospital-based groups as hospitals shrink and close. The time to plan is well ahead of the time, if ever, to implement.
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Both Washington and Lincoln were exceptional. Thrust into lives that they wanted but didn’t want, from pasts of trial and error, and failure upon failure. Self-promoters whose careers didn’t follow a smooth arithmetic progression.
Ride along with Mark as he discusses the seeming acceleration of the speed at which hospitals and other healthcare facilities terminate physician and physician group contracts.
Corporations exist to make a profit. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s a fact of life.
A physician raises honest criticism or files a heartfelt complaint concerning another member of the medical staff or another member of her group. She’s fired!
What if the physician isn’t actually disruptive, but simply nonconformist or challenging?
LIFO and FIFO are inventory concepts. But they apply to the quandary of which physicians would be let go if case volume drops precipitously.
Disruptive physicians. But what if the physician isn’t actually disruptive, but simply nonconformist or challenging?
The next thing you know she was fired.
Unfortunately, it’s an all too uncommon experience.
A physician raises honest criticism or files a heartfelt complaint concerning another member of the medical staff or another member of her group. She’s fired.
Do you have the governance structure, policies, employment agreements, and other elements required to shift resources and reduce staff as well as expand it in face of shifting needs?