With all the challenges facing hospital providers, it can be easy for leaders to feel a little downtrodden. However, these challenges are setting the stage for a dramatic redesign of healthcare delivery in the United States. This redesign is a huge opportunity for healthcare organizations to change healthcare for the better by improving quality and bringing down costs. It also presents a unique opportunity to redesign care so that it easier for patients to navigate. After all, that’s the reason doctors, nurses and healthcare administrators are in their fields — to help patients, to heal and to ease pain and suffering.
Earlier this week at the Hospital of Tomorrow leadership forum in Washington, D.C., Toby Cosgrove, MD, president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, shared a moving video on the importance on empathy in healthcare. The video encourages healthcare workers to remember the reason they are in healthcare — to serve others. To me, it was a helpful reminder that so many of us should slow down and put ourselves in others’ shoes before reacting in stressful situations, of which there are many in healthcare.
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