Administrative Actions
Lessons and laughs from hospital management.
The ACO SNF waiver
Learn how an accountable care organization (ACO) can help get your patient into a skilled nursing facility (SNF).
Unlicensed
Small oversights can line up to cause a major problem.
Friction
The forces of physics can explain clinical and other functions of the hospital.
Huddle up
Hospital huddles are just the latest iteration in a long tradition.
SSSSS
Five Japanese terms and their alliterative English equivalents helped bring order to a hospital command center.
Where's my patient?
Real-time location services are gaining traction as a tool for finding equipment and patients in the hospital.
ZZZooming
Administrative life is about committing to committees and moving from boardroom to bedroom lately.
An uphill battle
Envisioning the future of the pandemic was difficult at the end of March.
Administrative archetypes
Learn how some C-suite regulars will handle the latest committee concept.
Scorecard
Sometimes it's hard to really know how you are doing, as a clinician or an organization.
Readmission impossible
A dedicated team strives to keep a complex patient out of the hospital.
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.
Strategy by the sea
The columnists question if this strategy will hold water.
Elevator pitch
A good pitch must be concise and clear, engaging and persuasive, well-rehearsed and actionable, and less than 30 seconds long.
Little's Law and you
To understand what's really happening in your hospital, you need to consider Little's Law.
Committee life
Members of a hospital committee see each other in very different ways.
The chairman of the bored
An adventure in hospital committee participation.
Hospital failure
Like a conscientious physician, hospitalists must play doctor to their own facilities.
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.
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.