Category Archives: Human Capital/Management

Empowered Nurse Advocates Build Effective Patient-Centered Health Care Teams

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

By Gloria Ohmart, Ed.D, MN, APRN The passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act means we must increase our efforts in care coordination to provide optimal quality care to all insured patients. Empowered nurses possess highly effective conflict resolution … Continue reading →

Posted in Commentary, Human Capital/Management, Leadership, Medical Education | 2 Comments

Where Will the Clinical Faculty Come From?

Posted on March 19, 2013 by

By James E. Lewis, PhD  Everyone, it seems, agrees that many more physicians are needed over the next 20 to 30 years to respond to more, older Americans, physician retirements and deaths, reduced doctor work hours, and other factors. Both … Continue reading →

Posted in Human Capital/Management, Medical Education, Pattern Analysis | 4 Comments

Reducing Readmissions: Can We Do It?

Posted on March 15, 2013 by

By Jason Lightbody It’s easy to say we need to reduce readmission rates, but the real question is, How do we do it? With changes to Medicare reimbursements looming, it’s increasingly important for institutions to do their best to improve … Continue reading →

Posted in Care Delivery Innovations, Community Engagement, Health Care Innovation, Human Capital/Management, Leadership, Medical Education, Newsroom, Patient Access, Patient Safety | Leave a comment

Five Patient Handoff Resolutions for 2013

Posted on January 29, 2013 by

by Brandon H. Abbott, DO, MPH Since the restriction on resident duty work hours was passed by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) more than a year ago, I’ve found myself participating in patient handoffs more frequently in 2012 than ever before. … Continue reading →

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Primary Care Innovations at Kaiser Permanente’s Richmond Medical Center: Lessons in Patient and Provider Satisfaction

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

By Stacie Pankow and Scott Shipman, MD A medical center located in the one of the most impoverished sections of the San Francisco Bay area, Kaiser Permanente Richmond Medical Center is making strides not only to improve care quality and … Continue reading →

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Chart Review: A New Carnival for Academic Medicine Blogs

Posted on December 1, 2012 by

Welcome to the inaugural edition of Chart Review, our new monthly feature where the editors at Wing of Zock highlight our favorite blog posts from the previous month. We focus on blogs about academic medicine, whether from the perspective of … Continue reading →

Posted in Chart Review, Community Engagement, Health Information Technology, Human Capital/Management, Leadership, Professional Development, Quality Reporting, Research, Technology | 1 Comment

In His Words: Pronovost on CUSP

Posted on November 20, 2012 by

Peter Pronovost, MD, Ph.D., senior vice president for patient safety and quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine, was the lead on the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) initiative. CUSP reduced central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in intensive care units by 40 … Continue reading →

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Ruminations on Leadership

Posted on November 9, 2012 by

By Roheet Kakaday Originally posted on The Biopsy: This post was originally written during Hurricane Sandy, but couldn’t be published due to electric power concerns. Given the current buzz from the AAMC 2012 conference in San Francisco, I couldn’t help but … Continue reading →

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A Mind-Bending Thought: Career Flexibility in Academia

Posted on October 4, 2012 by

By Amparo Villablanca, MD, and Lydia Howell, MD Is your academic health center a place that talented individuals want to join, and where they want to stay and grow their careers? We would all like to think that “yes” is … Continue reading →

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Competency-based Medical Education: The Time Is Now

Posted on September 25, 2012 by

By Carol Aschenbrener, MD, Robert Englander, MD, MPH, and Janet Bull, MPA We are at a tipping point in competency-based medical education (CBME) — and it’s only taken 40 years since the competency conversation first appeared in the medical literature!In … Continue reading →

Posted in Future of AMCs, Human Capital/Management, Leadership, Medical Education | 3 Comments