Cartoon – The Exit Strategy
Monthly Archives: July 2016
Top 7 leadership deficiencies in healthcare
MERGER IN THE WIND? 5 Important Career Management Reminders
For potential suitors in the healthcare mergers craze that seems to reflect the idea that bigger is better, or at least safer, the important question at hand is how long will it take to turn around a 1,093-foot nuclear-powdered aircraft carrier in the Houston ship channel that is 45 feet deep and only 500 feet wide?
Meanwhile there are consultants, investment bankers and lawyers standing on the sidelines, much as they did during the 1990s merger phase, ready to reap big fees to unwind or litigate a difficult divorce before the creditors call the question.
For executives who must also worry about their own career path, the potential for layoffs in mergers is no laughing matter. As one CEO said of his merger with another regional system, “There are going to be a lot of people who lose their jobs through no fault of their own.”
If you are employed by an organization in serious merger talks, or waiting for the FTC or the courts to bless the consolidation, what should you do?
How To Lead By Using The 10 Elements Of Dignity
https://ericjacobsononmanagement.blogspot.com/2016/07/how-to-lead-by-using-10-elements-of.html
In their book, Millennials Who Manage, authors Chip Espinoza and Joel Schwarzbart, quote Donna Hicks‘s explanation about how dignity is different from respect.
- Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability. Dignity is a feeling of inherent value and worth.
Therefore, Espinoza and Schwarzbart recommend that leaders treat those they are leading with dignity and follow Hick’s 10 Essential Elements of Dignity:
Chronic Care Management Services
Click to access ChronicCareManagement.pdf
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recognizes care management as one of the critical components of primary care that contributes to better health and care for individuals, as well as reduced spending. Beginning January 1, 2015, Medicare pays separately under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) under American Medical Association Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code 99490, for non-face-to-face care coordination services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions.
CPT 99490 is defined as follows: 99490 Chronic care management services, at least 20 minutes of clinical staff time directed by a physician or other qualified health care professional, per calendar month, with the following required elements:
> Multiple (two or more) chronic conditions expected to last at least 12 months, or until the death of the patient,
> Chronic conditions place the patient at significant risk of death, acute exacerbation/decompensation, or functional decline, `
> Comprehensive care plan established, implemented, revised, or monitored.
FDA temporarily halts blood donation in two Florida counties over Zika fears
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking blood centers in two Florida counties to immediately stop collections. The counties are investigating possible local transmission of Zika virus.
In a notice sent to blood centers and posted on the agency’s website Wednesday evening, the FDA said it is requesting all blood centers in Miami-Dade or Broward counties to “cease collecting blood immediately” until those facilities can test individual units of blood donated in those two counties with a special investigational donor screening test for Zika virus or until the establishments implement the use of an approved or investigational pathogen-inactivation technology.
The action by the FDA comes as health officials in Florida said Thursday they were continuing to investigate two Zika cases that could have been spread by local mosquitoes, in addition to two similar cases they announced last week. Health officials have not confirmed whether any of the infected individuals acquired the virus from local mosquitoes, but it seems increasingly likely.
“These may be the first cases of local Zika virus transmission by mosquitoes in the continental United States,” the FDA said in its notice and in a media statement Thursday. It said it was making the request of blood-collection establishments “in consideration of the possibility of an emerging local outbreak of Zika virus, and as a prudent measure to help assure the safety of blood and blood products.”
UCSF, John Muir dramatically expand, rename Bay Area health network
UCSF Health and John Muir Health have dramatically expanded — and renamed — their year-old Bay Area accountable care network, adding seven new hospitals and three new medical groups to the enterprise.
The hope is that the network will be competitive with giants like Kaiser Permanente and Sutter Health. The network’s new brand name — Canopy Health — is intended to reach out to the broad Bay Area community, network CEO Joel Criste told the Business Times Wednesday.
“We’re off and running,” UCSF Health CEO Mark Laret added, in a Wednesday afternoon interview. Laret called Canopy Health’s recent growth spurt “the beginning of something that could be very big,” potentially a model for hospitals and medical groups nationally to use as a template, and a strong, multi-hospital and medical group alternative to Kaiser Permanente, in particular.
Hill Physicians Medical Group, one of Northern California’s largest independent practice associations, the East Bay’s Muir Medical Group IPA and the North Bay’s Meritage Medical Network have quietly joined in recent months, as shareholders and participating providers in the venture, officials told the Business Times.
The two founding organizations still hold the largest stakes and are clearly running the show, however.
The new additions give the network more than 4,000 affiliated doctors in the Bay Area, which in turn gives more clout when competing with regional rivals like Kaiser and Sutter.
“It’s an important step that allows them to position themselves as a system to compete with Kaiser, Sutter and Stanford Health Care,” among others, said Walter Kopp, a longtime Bay Area hospital and medical group consultant.
Cartoon – Getting a Raise
Hospitals show some benefit from ACA
The Affordable Care Act has cut hospital charity care and bad debt expenses, but opponents say it is not enough to contain healthcare costs.
Healthcare Turnover – The Cost, the Causes, and a Sustainable Solution
While most organizations measure turnover and try to improve it, many don’t really understand its cost or causes, and fewer still take a holistic, effective approach to attracting and retaining the best talent, at every level of the organization.
This interactive panel discussion will explore turnover from multiple perspectives. HR leaders from two of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health systems and an expert in hiring, selection, and turnover will discuss the cost of turnover and the ROI of improving retention, the issues and variables that drive turnover, and their impact on broader organizational goals. After exploring what really goes into understanding turnover, the panel will share what they’ve learned about what works, what doesn’t, and an approach to the problem that can be tailored to your situation – and that can be sustained.
HENRY KOTULA 