A New Approach to Support Staffing in Physician Practices
Organizations should adapt support-staffing levels for physician practices using a comprehensive approach, including a variety of factors such as provider mix, productivity, and the level of patient access.
How One Florida Healthcare Organization Tackled Recruitment Challenges and Saved $3M
Health First exceeded its goals for improving new hire retention rates and satisfaction, resulting in significant cost savings and happier hiring managers.
Medical Trainees Learn to Recognize Clinical Overuse
Brandon Combs says a voluntary writing exercise at University of Colorado School of Medicine helps medical trainees reflect on patient harms arising from clinical overuse.
‘Security’ is Being Prepared for Career Opportunities
Kari Cornicelli, vice president and CFO for Sharp Metropolitan Medical Campus in San Diego, writes about finding security by creating opportunities for yourself. Some of the challenges you may be facing now can lead you down a path of opportunity that you hadn't previously considered.
5 Steps to Overcoming Your Fears
HFMA Career Coach Joe Abel looks at what holds people back from pursuing new career opportunities, and he walks through five steps that can help eliminate fears to help you move forward.
Confronting Your Fear is the Key to Living a Meaningful Life
About 30 years ago, a concerned friend gave Hilda Villaverde, PhD, a book that improved her life: Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, by Susan Jeffers. She writes about how the book served as her personal wake-up call to examine what was meaningful in her life.
Success is About Scaling the Wall in Front of You
Christina Caraballo, senior healthcare strategist for Get Real Health, shares how the sport of parkour has helped her scale walls of opposition in her personal and professional life to help her reach new heights.
Safety in Numbers: Key to Wealth Accumulation is Discipline
Nancy Tengler, senior vice president and chief investment officer for Heartland Financial USA Inc., says well-executed investment discipline can provide stability and financial security for women of all ages and income levels. But, as with any discipline, it requires diligence, practice, and plenty of patience.
HFMA Executive Roundtable: Voices on Value: Key Insights From Top CFOs
In this roundtable, several industry-leading CFOs discuss how they approach their daunting responsibilities and act as financial stewards of multifaceted organizations.
Put Fear Aside and Unlock Those Golden Handcuffs
When the position that Cally Christensen had served in for a decade was eliminated, she saw it as an opportunity to create the life she always wanted. In this article, she takes us through her thought process as she reinvented herself as a consultant and executive coach.