Resources and Recommended Readings
We hope that the following citations and links for books, articles, papers, research studies and web sites will be valuable to you as you prepare for your conference experience, and thereafter in your work and professional life.
Suggested resources from:
Kirk Mathews, CEO, Inpatient Management, Inc., St. Louis, MO
Healthcare Finance News
HCFN is an excellent source for financial and regulatory news and opinion as well as thought leadership through the publication (print), the online version and their blogs written by industry leaders. This publication provides insight into the economics and emerging trends of hospitals, medical group management and a wide healthcare landscape. Click here, to visit the site.
Hospitals & Health Networks
Doubtless many conference participants are familiar with this outstanding publication, but some may not be aware of the opportunity to subscribe to the electronic version of the publication. Visit H&HN.com and look to the top left of the home page for the promo to subscribe to the electronic version. The web-enabled version is convenient, "green," and it makes sharing articles from the publication a breeze.
ACP Hospitalist
I suggest two resources associated with the American College of Physicians' publication, ACP Hospitalist. The blog, is timely and brief and always worthy of consideration and the online Medicine Track, always has useful clinical information for practicing hospitalists.
HC Pro Hospitalist Leadership Blogs
(Full disclosure—Kirk is one of a cadre of blog authors for this channel)
The HC Pro Hospitalist Leadership Blogs offer a wide range of insights and opinions from professionals in the Hospitalist Program landscape, including physicians, journalists, recruiters and business executives. The industry topics are timely and the comments and discussion are thoughtful and professional. Click here to read the blog.
Annual Midwestern Hospital Medicine Conference
This Conference is sponsored by Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, Office of Continuing Medical Education, and it has a track record of outstanding topics and presenters geared specifically toward practitioners of hospital medicine. It is a convenient central location for all travelers, but in particular for hospitalists in the central tier of states. Click here for information on the 6th Annual Conference as it becomes available.
Suggested resource from:
David J. Campbell, MS, MHSA, Clinic Manager, Gundersen Lutheran Health System-Prairie du Chien Clinic, Prairie du Chien, WI
"Elevating Physician Recruitment: Accelerating Medical Staff Development in an Increasingly Competitive Labor Market"
Health Care Advisory Board, The Advisory Board Company 2009
A question and resource from:
Susan Douglass, Founder, Susan Douglass & Associates LLC, Colorado Springs, CO and
Roger D. Strode, Jr., Partner, National Health Law Practice, McDermott, Will & Emery LLP, Chicago, IL
Pre Conference Conversation Starter:
Limited dollars for cash bonuses have forced organizations to look beyond using money as a motivator. Many high performing healthcare organizations are successfully using non financial approaches to motivate and engage employees. This trend is not new and numerous studies have concluded for years that if people are fairly paid, non financial motivators are as effective as extra cash. In many cases, the evidence suggests that they are even more effective as recruiting and retention tools. The top three have been reported as: individual leadership attention, praise from immediate managers and project focused career development (such as the opportunity to lead or co-lead a project related strategic initiative). Why are these approaches so successful? Because of the underlying message; leadership values your contribution; leadership cares about your professional development and leadership works hard to create career growth opportunities for you.
Do you believe non cash motivators are effective?
Suggested Reading:
The War For Talent By Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones and Beth Axelrod
Harvard Business School Press, 2001
This book presents conclusions from three major research initiatives conducted by McKinsey & Company around talent management. These findings reinforce the strategic importance of human capital because of the enormous value that better talent creates in any industry. It also strongly suggests that a company's long term success will be determined by how strong its talent pool is.
Resources from:
Patricia Morrill, EDAC, Health Care Operations Consultant, Kahler Slater, Milwaukee, WI and Sandy Anderson, President, St. Clare Hospital & Health Services, Baraboo, WI
Leading an Empowered Organization: Inspiring Ownership for Excellence by Creative Health Care Management, Inc., 2007, www.chcm.com
This website would be good to explore for a description of the Relationship-Based Care model that we will reference in our session on "Inspired Leadership in Pursuit of Cultural, Process and Facility Changes."
A Lean Guide to Transforming Healthcare: How to Implement Lean Principles in Hospitals, Medical Offices, Clinics and Other Healthcare Organizations by Thomas G. Zidel, 2006, American Society for Quality, Quality Press.
Lessons Learned: A Systems Approach to Lean and Evidence-Based Design by Patricia Morrill and Kate Taege, The Ireland Report, July/August 2009
Going Lean in Health Care whitepaper by Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2005
Lean-Six Sigma for Healthcare: A Senior Leader Guide to Improving Cost and Throughput by Chip Caldwell, Jim Brexler and Tom Gillem, 2005, American Society for Quality, Quality Press
Suggested resources from:
Jean Wallace, Outreach Coordinator, Wheatland Memorial Healthcare, Harlowton, MT
The Telehealth Resource Centers are available to assist health care organizations, health care networks, and health care providers in the implementation of cost-effective telehealth programs serving rural and medically under served areas and populations. They provide many services and resources from a national and regional perspective.
California Telemedicine & eHealth Center
www.ceteconline.org
877.590.8144
Center for Telehealth and eHealth Law
www.telehealthlawcenter.org
202.230.5090
Great Plains Telemedicine Resource & Assistance Center
www.gptrac.org
888.239.7092
Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center
www.nrtrc.org
866.488.0475
Southwest Telehealth Resource Center
www.southwesttrc.org
520.626.4498
Contact Jean with your questions:
Wheatland Memorial Healthcare
www.wheatlandmemorial.org/
St. Vincent Healthcare
www.svh-mt.org
Suggested resources from:
Bruce Cryer, CEO, HeartMath, LLC, Boulder Creek, CO
From Chaos to Coherence: The Power to Change Performance, by Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer
The revised edition of this seminal book is essential for developing people and powerful organizations that respond gracefully to change, crisis and challenge. Well-documented examples, biomedical research and organizational case studies show how to become more effective and reduce stress.
Improving Cognition in Recently Returned Combat Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder by Heart Rate Variability Coherence Biofeedback
J.P. Ginsberg, Ph.D., M.E. Berry, M.A., D.A. Powell, Ph.D.
Shirley L. Buchanan Neuroscience Laboratory, Dorn VA Medical Center, Columbia, SC, 2008.
Impact of a Workplace Stress Reduction Program on Blood Pressure and Emotional Health in Hypertensive Employees
R. McCraty, M. Atkinson, D. Tomasino
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2003;9(3):355-369
Impact of the Power to Change Performance Program on Stress and Health Risks in Correctional Officers
R. McCraty, M. Atkinson, L. Lipsenthal, L. Arguelles
HeartMath Research Center, Institute of HeartMath, Report No. 03-014. Boulder Creek CA, November 2003.
The Effect of Employee Self-Management Training on Personal and Organizational Quality
B. Barrios-Choplin, R. McCraty, J. Sundram, M. Atkinson
HeartMath Research Center, Institute of HeartMath, Publication No. 99-083. Boulder Creek, CA, 1999.
The Electricity of Touch: Detection and Measurement of Cardiac Energy Exchange Between People
R. McCraty, M. Atkinson, D. Tomasino, W.A. Tiller
In: K. H. Pribram, ed. Brain and Values: Is a Biological Science of Values Possible. Proceedings of the Fifth Appalachian Conference on Behavioral Neurodynamics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1998: 359-379.
An Inner Quality Approach to Reducing Stress and Improving Physical and Emotional Wellbeing at Work
B. Barrios-Choplin, R. McCraty, B. Cryer
Stress Medicine 1997;13(13):193-201.
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