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Does Anyone Want to Be Here?
What are you doing right now? Does it have your full attention? Is it what you want to be doing? Do you want to be here? Where? Anywhere! In our fast-paced, high stress environment, too often our focus is on what’s next, as opposed to what’s now. Although planning for...
With Accountability Comes Results
Creating a solid leadership team is not only key for organizational excellence; it’s priceless in a crisis. We are in the midst of extreme, unprecedented times, especially in healthcare, and leaders and managers alike are relying on their teams to help them keep staff...
Providing compassionate care while wearing a face mask
Interpreting facial cues is a central component of effective communication. In his 1865 book, Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, Charles Darwin argued that our brains are able to extract a tremendous amount of subtle detail from just a glance. Our fascination...
The Joy of Non-COVID Conversation
It has been an unusual time: hospitals and health systems striving for optimal performance against a consistently unpredictable foe. The predictions provided opportunity for preparations beyond the non-existent result; nevertheless, our ability to restructure and...
Everything you need to know to have a successful career, you can learn while in career transition
Career transition—whether anticipated or unexpected—can be a trying time in a person’s life. But in the transition process, there are lessons you can learn, skills you can develop, and habits you can form that will make you a better person, a stronger leader, and...
Will ‘unprecedented’ times lead to unprecedented change?
Whether in reports from journalists, briefings from government officials, or socially-distanced conversations with next-door neighbors, “unprecedented” seems to be the word on everyone’s lips these days. It is certainly true that in the United States, we have not...
The Only Sensible COVID-19 Solution – We Gotta Get Sick!!
Are you: As bored as an Amish electrician? Starting to pour wine in your morning cereal? Thinking it will be hard to return to a society where pants and bras are required? Finding that happy hour is starting earlier each day? That your last attempt to make hand...
Best Practices in ERP Conversion Strategies
It can be daunting to transition to an entirely new technology for purchasing, receiving and distributing, as well as managing the accounting functions that govern such transactions. A methodical and strategic approach to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Conversion...
Crisis: What this Stress Test Reveals
Every crisis reveals the truth about systems, processes, and people. Amidst the tears and the heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic there are many valuable lessons to be learned. People will be the focal point of this discussion today: recognizing the Unfiltered View of...
Transition Healthcare From a State of ‘Crisis’ to ‘High-Performance’ in a Post-COVID-19 World
Over time, InnovateHC has developed a proven track record of expertise in advising healthcare managers through leadership transitions and organizational change in governance structure, physician engagement, physician recruiting and retention, and value-based care. The...
Coronavirus is disrupting social norms and healthcare-as-usual—and that’s a good thing
Working from home is certainly an adjustment, but the habits we are forming while quarantined will improve our quality of life. We’re eating out less often and cooking at home more using fresh ingredients rather than harder-to-find non-perishable food. Families are...
Inventory Management for Hospitals and Primarily Operating Rooms
Several factors influencing inventory management for hospitals have remained unchanged for decades. Current industry metrics and usage gaps offer insights using accurate benchmarks to appropriately establish inventory levels and rules for facility department managers...
As Spring arrives, collaboration in healthcare blooms
The desert in Springtime is stunning to me. The monochromatic brown of winter begins to recede and colorful new life somehow reemerges. In spite of all adversity, it always returns. This COVID-19 pandemic will also recede in time. The isolation of this long winter...
Three things a person should avoid once they are past 70 years old. P.S. I’m on the list
This COVID thing is getting to me, I guess. I hit the "staring at a blank page" syndrome this week in trying to come up with something original. So I'm cheating. This week's article is a republish of one of my most popular Quora posts from a few weeks ago. 130,000...
The Labor Side of Supply Chain
The limited articles publishing facts and metrics for hospital supply chain staffing presents a gap of the what, where, and why of supply chain labor. The supply chain manager may believe having a person working in each task is the most efficient use of staffing...