Month: April 2020

HELPING HOSPITALS KEEP GOOD DOCTORS

Physician Retention: Satisfying Seniors

The logical result of successful physician retention is that physicians become senior physicians. Should ED employers provide special consideration for them? This is the question posed by Pamela P. Bensen, MD, after reading part one of this series. Dr. Bensen was the founder and principal of Emergency Medicine Associates, a group in Maine, from 1984…
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Estes Park Health CEO talks physician turnover

By ZACH CLEMENS | clemensz@eptrail.com | Estes Park Trail-GazetteFebruary 1, 2019 at 3:43 p.m. A lot of changes have occured in the last year at Estes Park Health (EPH), from a rebranding effort—formally Estes Park Medical Center—to a new patient record system , a hospitalist and surgicalist program, along with new physicians. These things can be viewed as positive…
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Burnout and Health Care Workforce Turnover

LINK Rachel Willard-Grace, MPH1⇑,  Margae Knox, MPH1,  Beatrice Huang, BA1,  Hali Hammer, MD2,  Coleen Kivlahan, MD, MSPH3 and  Kevin Grumbach, MD1 +Author Affiliations 1Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 2San Francisco Health Network, San Francisco, California 3University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California CORRESPONDING…
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The staggering costs of physician turnover

By David A. Frenz, MD –  August 2016 Today’s Hospitalist I’M THE PHYSICIAN EXECUTIVE for a multispecialty group of 250 providers that includes hospital medicine. Turnover occurs all the time, with people both coming and going. This week, for example, I attended a welcome lunch for four new providers. Last week, two people left. In hospital medicine, the…
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