Integration & Physician Issues

Patients are staying longer than they need to in hospital beds, leading to adverse health issues, capacity issues and delayed access to those beds for incoming patients, and this issue is only getting worse, experts at the American Hospital Association…

One person was killed and five others injured after a car crashed into pedestrians in the parking garage of Washington, D.C.-based MedStar Georgetown University Hospital July 20, The Washington Post reported.

While some leaders credit part-time work with keeping physicians in the fields, they grapple with how best to keep morale up while still providing patient care.

New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine researchers found that the annual rate for physician turnover increased by 43 percent between 2010 and 2018, though it decreased slightly in 2020.

Between 2012 and 2022, physicians working in private practices decreased by 13 percent, an American Medical Association report found.

Beginning Oct. 1, Connecticut hospitals will be required to implement several nurse staffing measures including having organized plans on file, establishing a staffing committee and must meet certain reporting requirements or face civil penalties, according to Littler law firm's analysis…

Technology is meant to make things easier, but "it's a great irony that when we were on paper charts, things were more efficient," Doug Bruce, MD, chief clinical integration officer at Cleveland-based MetroHealth, recently told Becker's.

There are no national estimates of physician turnover, which makes one new assessment of the rate at which physicians left their practices over a decade noteworthy. 

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American Physician Partners, a medical staffing company based in Brentwood, Tenn., is closing and planning to transition its hospital contracts, according to Bloomberg.