It’s not quite like life imitating art, but it’s probably as close to it as I’m going to see today. I just read a puff piece sponsored by Bank of America, pricey click bait for hospital CFOs, that supposedly features a roundtable “conversation” among (oxymoron warning) forward-looking hospital CFOs. Apparently, these CFOs have just realized […]
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As horrible as a fire is — the danger involved, the risk of loss to the home or business owner — there’s also an inherent opportunity: an opportunity to rebuild, to renovate, and to renew. The stories of the phoenix or of Noah and the flood. Let’s discuss the parallels to your business.
The large red machine lumbered forward from behind, lights flashing. A fire engine heading off to a fire. As horrible as a fire is — the danger involved, the risk of loss to the home or business owner — there’s also an inherent opportunity: an opportunity to rebuild, to renovate, and to renew. The stories […]
The so-called “soft stuff” is a larger factor than groups generally acknowledge. Very few groups reward their physicians for it.
Naughty or Nice? This year, Santa brought a lump of coal to Tenet’s Abrazo Maryvale hospital campus. Rumored to be accompanied by the Grinch for extra muscle, he padlocked the 232-bed Phoenix area facility. All kidding aside, the hospital fell victim to, in the words of its spokesman, “dwindling patient volumes.” As a reader of […]
Ride along with Mark F. Weiss as he talks about what firefighters’ actions tell us about the mindset required of medical group leaders.
If your mindset is that spending money on your future is a cost, you don’t have a future.
Sit back while Mark talks with you about the opportunity to profit from how healthcare decentralization is mirroring the overall economy.
It’s not just the delivery of medical care that determines the value that your medical practice or group delivers. It’s all of the “soft” stuff as well.
Many medical groups, especially those run as a club or collection of colleagues, fear spending any money because they view spending as a cost.