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Leadership Practices

How To Improve Your Mood and Your Bottom Line

11.18.2011

In the coming months, Medicare will start taking patient satisfaction into account when reimbursing hospitals. Disgruntled patients will mean reduced revenue. Medicare will reward hospitals that provide high quality care for their patients through the new Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program.  This program marks the beginning of an historic change in how Medicare pays health care [...]

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How Physicians Can Influence Administrators To Get Things Done

05.26.2011

Alignment is the catch-all term used to describe a myriad of business relationships, organizational structures and shared cultures – all geared toward bringing hospitals and physicians into one line that is coordinated and accountable.  With the healthcare sector’s rising share of the economy expected to reach 19.3% of the GDP by the end of the [...]

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How to Begin Physician Integration

05.06.2011

With the details on health care reform and specifically Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) making the headlines everyday (http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-physician-relationships/), both physicians and health care leaders are getting more serious about asking themselves “What does this mean to me?” Healthcare leaders know that physician integration will be critical for achieving the increased efficiencies and coordination necessary for [...]

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3 Themes of Focus in Health Care Reform

03.18.2011

Two bills were passed into law by President Obama – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act. How do you make good decisions around health care reform when the laws are passed but the regulatory rules are pending? Educated guesses seem to be the best answer. At [...]

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How To Align to a Changing Environment

03.09.2011

Our health care environment is changing – fast.  To develop successful strategies for you and your organization requires you to keep a finger on the pulse of the key issues, concerns and developments driving health care.  No easy task – but, Ed O’Neil, Director of the Center for Health Care Professionals, just made it easier [...]

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Nothing without Passion

02.11.2011

Got passion?  Give yourself, loved ones, patients and even your work team the benefit of more passion this Valentine’s Day. The challenges we face each day – too much to do, decreasing revenue, lots of uncertainty – it drains our energy – and our passion. Sustainable solutions (see last month’s blog post) to overwhelming problems [...]

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Change Starts With Focus on the Solution

01.31.2011

You have had a few weeks in January to consider what you want in 2011 (view my last blog post here).  Now how do you increase the odds of getting the results you are looking for? The key to getting more of what you want in 2011 is to focus more on the solution – [...]

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How Leaders Thrive At Work

10.08.2010

How do you thrive at work so you can inspire and mobilize others, even in demanding circumstances?  Centered Leadership is what equips leaders for leading change. As the name implies, “It’s about having a well of physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual strength that drives personal achievement, and in turn, inspires others to follow.” Research updated [...]

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What Motivates US?

02.26.2010

What drives you to perform at your best? Is it money, fear of punishment, reward or is it something more than that?  Daniel Pink, in his newest book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us draws some research based conclusions I think you may find useful. Sometimes there is a mismatch between what science knows, [...]

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Family Vacation Teaches Leadership Skills

01.08.2010

On December 20th my husband and I left for a two week trip to northeastern Brazil. For 6 months we planned all the details of traveling with my two college age children: visas, vaccinations, flights, and lodging. As I shared the details of our upcoming trip with friends and family- I noticed and felt guilty [...]

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