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IT’S TIME TO HEAL OUR CULTURE OF HEALTHCARE.
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Healthcare leaders...
wondering how to increase profitability and your bottom line while promoting professional fulfillment
Healthcare professionals...
recognizing signs of burnout, feeling overwhelmed or unclear about where to find appropriate solutions for your organization
Patients...
noticing their doctors and care teams are suffering from burnout and wondering what resources are currently available
Each 30-minute interview features key healthcare leaders and stakeholders sharing data-driven solutions and initiatives in three key areas:
Well-Being Metrics
Understand how well-being metrics are tied to profitability.
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See how proven and real-time initiatives are improving retention, well-being and patient care.
Overcome Resistance & Remove Barriers
Learn how to successfully implement sustainable change inside a culture accustomed to survival.
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We MUST heal our culture of medicine, the organizations within it, and our delivery systems. Together with our patients, care teams, doctors, nurses, healthcare leaders, thought leaders, and key stakeholders, we can create a bright future for our culture of medicine.
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We can all agree that our healthcare system has been in deep trouble for decades and will not heal on its own.
The data supports that our national healthcare system is physically, emotionally, mentally, and financially suffering. As patients, we also see our healthcare teams running ragged daily, feeling overwhelmed and frequently understaffed, leading to less time spent with us in our appointments, and creating strain on the sacred doctor/clinician-patient relationship.
Our beloved culture of medicine has also been shifting rapidly in a negative direction, further exacerbated by our pandemic over the past several years. What we cherished and admired has now become fragmented and siloed and is becoming a career to transition out of for a majority of physicians, clinicians and employees. Unless we immediately implement targeted data-based interventions, we face an unprecedented decline. The reality is that these interventions already exist and have been studied for decades. We have the research, the methods, the solutions, the experts, the researchers, and the financial data showing well-being metrics directly linked to profitability.
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Taking a Break
This is a quick update to let you all know that I will be taking a break from podcasting and social media for a while to pursue some exciting new endeavors within the medical realm. (Rest assured, I can't wait to eventually share what I'm doing with all of you.) A...
Why Leadership is Worthless While Leading is Priceless: with Dr. Thom Mayer, Medical Director for the NFL Players Association
I was privileged to interview our repeat distinguished guest Dr. Thom Mayer, who is the Medical Director for the NFL Players Association. Dr. Mayer is one of the most widely-sought speakers on healthcare patient experience, leadership and management, hardwiring...
Building Resilience for our Future Healthcare Professionals with Dr. Andrew McLean
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Andrew McLean recently on Hope for Healthcare! Dr. McLean is Clinical Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, and Associate Dean for Wellness at UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences. ...
How to Identify and Overcome Common Leadership Derailing Behaviors with Dr. Sue Padernacht
I had the honor of interviewing my great friend and colleague Dr. Sue Padernacht! Dr. Padernacht is the CEO of Ncline Leadership Strategies, bringing over 35 years of experience and expertise in organizational, leadership, team, and negotiations coaching, training,...
How Human Factors Ergonomics Builds the Case for Clinician Well-Being as a Quality Metric
I had the absolute pleasure in interviewing my friend and colleague Dr. Michael Privitera recently- Dr. Privitera is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) as well as a member, NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational...
How The Quadruple Aim Advocates for Physician and Healthcare Well-Being
I had the absolute honor of interviewing my friend and colleague Dr. Todd Otten on my podcast recently! Dr. Otten, MD, is a Powerful Change Agent and Co-Founder of Our Quadruple Aim, a movement that challenges the status quo in healthcare and promotes patient...
How to Keep Physicians in Clinical Medicine by Creating Autonomy Through Local and State Legislative Action
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Marcelo Hochman this past week: he is President of Independent Doctors of South Carolina, a double Board-certified head, neck, and facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon, founder of Charleston’s Facial Surgery Center, and Past...
How to Successfully Retain Women Physicians- with Burnout Expert Dr. Diane Shannon
I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Diane Shannon, MD, MPH. Dr. Shannon is a former primary care physician with more than 20 years of experience as a professional health care writer and author. As an award-winning health care writer she has crafted expert...
Servant Leadership: Lessons Learned from the Medical Director for the NFL Players Association, Dr. Thom Mayer
I was deeply honored to interview Dr. Thom Mayer, who is the Medical Director for the NFL Players Association, Executive Vice President of Leadership for LogixHealth, Founder of BestPractices, Inc., Speaker for Executive Speakers Bureau, Clinical Professor of...
How a Nurse Executive is Implementing Key Strategies for Nursing and Clinician Retention while Building Leadership Resilience!
I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Robin Geiger on Hope for Healthcare! She is the Senior Vice President, Clinician Advocacy at Ingenovis Health and a board-certified nurse executive with over 20 years of hands-on clinical leadership experience. Dr. Geiger and I...
How a Chief Wellbeing Economist is Helping Healthcare Systems Identify Current and Future Financial States with Targeted Action Plans
I had the absolute pleasure in interviewing Dr. Sisi Hu on Hope for Healthcare today! She and her business partner Tiffany Chan have created an AI model to support our healthcare workers, specifically to support our health systems to measure, benchmark, and mitigate...
Evidence-Based Tools to Reverse Healthcare System Burnout and Build Your Bottom Line
Hello everyone, we have a special edition of Hope for Healthcare Podcast today spotlighting both Paul DeChant, MD, MBA, and Bruce D. Cummings, MPH, LFACHE! They are both nationally recognized experts in clinician burnout, and are the healthcare innovators behind...
How a Neurosurgeon’s Own Journey From Grief to Emotional Agility Helped to Buffer Burnout and Return Joy Back Into Medicine
I had the absolute honor of interviewing Dr. Jody Stern on Hope for Healthcare Podcast! Dr. Stern is Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Author of “Grief Connects Us: A Neurosurgeon’s Lessons on Love, Loss,...
How Empathy Skills Training can Reduce Burnout While Improving Leadership, Clinician and Patient Well-Being
I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Dr. Helen Riess on Hope for Healthcare recently! Dr. Riess is the CEO and Founder of Empathetics- a company that provides evidence-based empathy and communication skills training for healthcare and allied health...
How Leading with Vulnerability, Transparency and Integrity Can Rebuild Trust with Healthcare Leadership and Employees
I was honored to interview Dr. Tammie Chang, a good friend and colleague of mine- who is afierce national advocate for cultural change in healthcare and fellow Well-Being Change Agent! We had such a great conversation around our own journeys with healing burnout and...
We Must Address Both Moral Injury and Burnout as We Renovate our Culture of Medicine
I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Dr. Wendy Dean on Hope for Healthcare Podcast. Dr. Dean really helped me better understand the concept of Moral Injury in Healthcare, and how this concept is really a distinct entity from Burnout, and yet they may occur...
Approaching Healthcare Leadership Through Empowerment
Dr. Paul DeChant and I reconnected and had the most uplifting conversation around approaching healthcare leadership through empowerment. Empowering leaders to to make decisions that benefit the well-being of our workforce and patient quality and experience. Dr....
How Culture Performance Management Can Transcend Healthcare from Burnout to Engagement
I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Dr. Donte Vaughn, who is an expert in Organizational Leadership, Workforce Management, and Company Culture. Dr. Vaughn, is the CEO and Managing Partner of CultureWorx, a company dedicated to providing Culture Performance...
How Knowing Your Top 5 Strengths Can Beat Burnout
I had so much fun interviewing Ryan Wolf, who a key leader for Gallup's Health and Well-Being Strategies! Did you know that only 1 out of 33 million people have the same top 5 strengths? Please tune in to learn more about how understanding and embracing your strengths...
How The Clinician Burnout Foundation Offers Free Services to Healthcare Workers to Beat Burnout
I want to introduce you all to my friend/colleague Jodie Green- CEO of the Clinician Burnout Foundation (CBF)! We had a very heartwarming conversation about what needs to change on the frontlines, and how CBF is giving out free solutions ranging from technology...
So what are the barriers and resistance to implementing all of this starting today?
There are also many positive aspects to our systems and culture of medicine that have worked for us for centuries, including commitment, dedication, compassion, caring, and best-practice standards. When addressing any change within a specific healthcare organization, structure, or even in our culture of medicine, we must create a successful transition stage. This transition must include diagnosing our present situation- organizational and cultural norms, beliefs, group dynamics, and framework to make this transition successful. We need to identify what works well for us and what aspects need to be adapted or replaced with a healthier approach.
Creating a supportive infrastructure within all levels of our culture and organizations is the key to embracing the complexities of today. We must also commit to elevating our standards of care to include organizational well-being, DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), and human capital metrics while embracing technology to assist us with integrating these many facets of our national healthcare system.
With each initiative, we are moving towards healing on extraordinary levels. This future we are creating has empowered patients and leaders with resources and tools for thriving organizations, physicians, and healthcare workers who discover a new passion for their work. Each Hope for Healthcare conversation stands in the commitment to this vision – it is a worthy future.