Administrative Actions

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Lessons and laughs from hospital management.

February 21, 2024 | FREE
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The ACO SNF waiver

Learn how an accountable care organization (ACO) can help get your patient into a skilled nursing facility (SNF).

December 13, 2023 | FREE
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Unlicensed

Small oversights can line up to cause a major problem.

August 23, 2023 | FREE
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Friction

The forces of physics can explain clinical and other functions of the hospital.

April 26, 2023 | FREE
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Huddle up

Hospital huddles are just the latest iteration in a long tradition.

June 29, 2022 | FREE
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SSSSS

Five Japanese terms and their alliterative English equivalents helped bring order to a hospital command center.

April 6, 2022 | FREE
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Where's my patient?

Real-time location services are gaining traction as a tool for finding equipment and patients in the hospital.

November 2020 | FREE
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ZZZooming

Administrative life is about committing to committees and moving from boardroom to bedroom lately.

June 2020 | FREE
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Commandos

A command center is key for managing the complexity of both airports and hospitals.

May 2020 | FREE
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An uphill battle

Envisioning the future of the pandemic was difficult at the end of March.

February 2020 | FREE
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Administrative archetypes

Learn how some C-suite regulars will handle the latest committee concept.

December 2019 | FREE
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Scorecard

Sometimes it's hard to really know how you are doing, as a clinician or an organization.

June 2018 | FREE
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Readmission impossible

A dedicated team strives to keep a complex patient out of the hospital.

July 2017 | FREE
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Byzantine

Whether it's ancient Persian credentialing, colonial American utilization review, or medieval admission criteria, the things that drive us mad today did the same to our distant medical forbearers.

April 2017 | FREE
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Strategy by the sea

The columnists question if this strategy will hold water.

July 2016 | FREE
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Elevator pitch

A good pitch must be concise and clear, engaging and persuasive, well-rehearsed and actionable, and less than 30 seconds long.

May 2016 | FREE
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Little's Law and you

To understand what's really happening in your hospital, you need to consider Little's Law.

August 2015 | FREE
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Committee life

Members of a hospital committee see each other in very different ways.

October 2014 | FREE
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The chairman of the bored

An adventure in hospital committee participation.

May 2011 | FREE
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Hospital failure

Like a conscientious physician, hospitalists must play doctor to their own facilities.

November 2009 | FREE
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Fight the noise

We all know the difficulty in functioning within a noisy hospital. But in hospitals we don't always have the option of suggesting that we move our discussion to a quiet coffee shop instead. Noise pollution in hospitals is an issue that confronts us all as hospital workers.

May 2009 | FREE
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A very brief history of credentialing

While many may think of it as a modern concept, credentialing has been a part of physicians' careers since long before the Middle Ages.