Converting the currency of patient access into organizational growth and economic development

Converting the currency of patient access into organizational growth and economic development

by | Feb 18, 2020 | Balance, Career Development, Development, Executive Coaching, General, Healthcare Industry, Leadership, Planning, Tips

The best way to provide exemplary patient access is to go to where the patients are. It seems like a simple approach, but healthcare tends to invest in communities by population density usually defined by home address. My team at Centra Health, a four-hospital,...
Mid-tier management development is critical to your success

Mid-tier management development is critical to your success

by | Feb 17, 2020 | Balance, Career Development, Development, Executive Coaching, General, Healthcare Industry, Leadership, Networking, Planning, Retirement, Tips

Often managers and directors are hired because they have become known as experts in their departments or they have been with the organization for several years and want to advance. But are you setting these great employees up for success with this new advancement in...
Want your employees to do their best work? Make it safe to fail.

Want your employees to do their best work? Make it safe to fail.

by | Feb 11, 2020 | Balance, Career Development, Development, Executive Coaching, General, Healthcare Industry, Leadership, Networking, Planning, Tips, Uncategorized

As healthcare leaders, we want to inspire and empower our employees to do creative, high-quality work that serves our patients and our communities. There is seemingly no end to the methods executives can use to accomplish this goal, but I have found that no strategic...
Healthcare Reform and Strategic Communications

Healthcare Reform and Strategic Communications

by | Feb 7, 2020 | ACHE, Balance, Career Development, Development, Executive Coaching, General, Healthcare Industry, Interim, Job Search, Leadership, Networking, Outplacement, Planning, Tips, Transition

Last week Texas Health Resources set a good example of how to use strategic communications as a means to differentiate itself within the environment of healthcare reform. Texas Health Resources is a not-for-profit health system comprised of 26 hospitals, 58 outpatient...