SPOTLIGHT -
June 6th 2023
Patients are the biggest offenders, but many also encounter racism from colleagues and supervisors
June 5th 2023
Some staffing problems stabilize with financial incentives, and technology helps, but AMGA report shows predictions for this year hold true.
May 30th 2023
Measuring engagement is key to meaningful change when workers are straining but loyal, and want to build a culture of excellence.
May 24th 2023
Creating a culture of employee loyalty and commitment is one of the most important contributors to successful medical practice management.
May 23rd 2023
Medical students, foreign-trained doctors who don’t match into residencies could be licensed to treat patients while gaining skills.
When staffing affects physician office productivity
Staff, productivity, revenue: An interesting correlation.
Quick to the middle
Responding to market forces by being dynamic and flexible with staff pay.
Best practices for recruiting talented staff for your practice
Medical practices must go beyond simply offering competitive salaries and benefits packages to attract new talent and keep their best clinicians and administrative staff working for them.
Six strategies to mitigate provider burnout
Physicians must lead a team effort to generate support at every level of the organization.
Mistreatment of physicians with disabilities is widespread, study finds
Offensive remarks, threats of violence come from coworkers and patients alike
Health care leads job growth for September as national unemployment rate drops to 3.5%
Feds to revise questions about COVID-19 effects on jobless rate and will ask about telework.
Feds announce $346M to address worker shortages in health care
Programs will add community health workers, nurses in primary care, other specialties, and public health.
Patients, careers suffer when burnout builds up for physicians
International study examines intertwined effects as problem approaches global crisis.
Supply, demand out of balance for primary care, behavioral health in cities across U.S.
Analyst uses hyperlocal data to understand current and forecasted physician shortages.
COVID-19 had ‘profound’ effect as physician burnout rose in 2021
Family physicians were among those most at risk for increased burnout in pandemic.
Health care employment grows, but national jobless rate creeps up in August
Sector had 16.45 million jobs last month, according to federal figures.
Health care jobs rebounding, but COVID-19 effects will linger for years
“Relatively recession-proof” sector tanked in spring 2020, but not as badly as overall economy, report says.
Night shift work reduces doctors’ empathy for pain: study
Physicians found to prescribe less pain medication during the night than the day
National Academy of Medicine readies health workforce well-being plan
Seven priority areas emerge from process that began before COVID-19 pandemic.
Health care employment rising, but still lower than pre-pandemic levels
Sector had 16.26 million workers in May, topping levels from month before and from May 2021.
Primary care physicians rank high on list of most used locum tenens staff
Family medicine, internists, pediatricians used in 21% of facilities across nation.
Across globe, 6.4 million physicians needed in 132 countries facing shortages
Study estimates 12.8 million doctors worldwide, and more are needed.
Health worker burnout must be top national priority, surgeon general says
Medical staff, pushed past their breaking point, say something has to change.
7 ways to keep a promising new hire at your practice
After a rigorous recruiting process, here's how to ensure a long stay from that prized new employee.
Workers leaving, expenses for labor, drugs, supplies rising in hospitals
Expenses per patient increase, even accounting for COVID-19 pandemic, AHA says.
The crisis in healthcare staffing
COVID-19 didn’t create the healthcare staffing shortage, but the impact is worsened because of it.
Short on staff? Efficiency—not hiring—may be the best answer