With the increasing demands of the healthcare profession, there's a pressing need to ensure that those at the forefront of patient care are themselves taken care of. AdventHealth, a faith-based healthcare system, has prided itself in this movement, championing a holistic approach to the well-...
This is the latest in a continuing series of articles designed for medical staff leaders and their associates. This month, Greeley and Williams discuss a possibly problematic situation that can arise during a merger when tensions are already running high.
Only 31% of physicians believe their workplace culture prioritizes their well-being, according to a recent survey by the Physician Foundation. This represents a 5% decline from a year ago.
ECRI, a long-standing patient safety organization in Pennsylvania, has listed verbal and physical violence against healthcare staff as its second-most important patient safety concern for 2023.
Sixty-two percent of emergency medicine physicians reported feeling burned out, according to the AMA’s Organizational Biopsy report, based on responses from more than 13,000 providers across 30 states.
As a medical staff leader, it is important to understand from the start that the days of a medical staff secretary in a medical staff office are history. It is true that in years past, the work was primarily clerical and secretarial. However, as healthcare has evolved and grown in complexity, so...