Leesburg Sterling Family Practice的动态

Kansas hospitals are grappling with inflation, staffing shortages, and increasing patient demand. Rural hospitals are at risk, nursing and imaging techs are in high demand, and behavioral health needs are surging. We recently held a panel with healthcare leaders from across the state to address these issues head-on. Leaders emphasized the urgency for action and innovation to ensure a bright future for healthcare in Kansas. Read the full recap in the Wichita Business Journal. ? Kevin Strecker, Via Christi Health | Bill Voloch, Wesley Healthcare | Benjamin Anderson, Hutchinson Regional Healthcare System | Robert Steele, MD, MBA, Children's Mercy Kansas City | Dawn Wessels https://hubs.li/Q02_BDxm0

This week members of the Moving Forward Coalition traveled across the country to share about the Coalition’s efforts to improve the way nursing homes address #WhatMattersMost to residents. On Wednesday, Laci Cornelison and Tonya Roberts presented at the Center for Innovation: The Green House Project and Pioneer Network (CFI) Conference in #GrandRapids. Then, on Friday, they were joined by Tara McMullen, Ph.D., MPH, FGSA, Gregory L. Alexander, and Tetyana Pylypiv Shippee for a presentation at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Annual Scientific Meeting in #Seattle. Back in Kansas, Laci is working with her team at the Kansas State University Center on Aging to test “A Guide to Addressing Resident Goals, Preferences and Priorities.” The team recently finished recruiting its first six pilot partners and is currently collecting pre-pilot baseline data about their current practices in addressing residents’ goals. Tetyana and Tonya are working with students to finish an article documenting the literature review that kickstarted the development of the Guide—identifying 40 tools available to nursing homes to ask residents?about their goals. You can read more about the Guide and the process of developing it in this recent article from?McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: https://lnkd.in/eCM5J6Km And the Coalition continues to educate providers, policymakers?and others nationally about the importance of ensuring nursing homes not only address residents’ health needs, but their goals as a whole person. Let us know if there's an organization or community with which we can help share this goal and strategies for achieving it in the comments. #MovingForward #nursinghome #AgeFriendly

This is such an unfortunate situation in Tillsonburg and one that highlights the differences in how family doctors are recruited, supported, and onboarded into practices in Ontario. Tillsonburg is just outside my recruitment area so I felt helpless when the doctors planning to leave contacted me to ask for help finding replacements. They have also reached out to the neighbouring recruitment team in Woodstock. Family doctor recruitment is not managed provincially in Ontario. Each county/ town/ city has to create and fund this position themselves. In many cases the path to having a family doctor recruiter starts by a team of healthcare leaders advocating and pitching the municipality or health region for support. Tillsonburg is experiencing this drastic family doctor shortage without having a recruitment person in place to assist with finding and onboarding new doctors. When this is the case, it falls on volunteers within the medical community to manage the recruitment tasks. Having discussed this with the people in that volunteer role in London before our recruitment program started, they stated not having a recruitment lead here was making it hard for doctors to practice in this area. Recruitment leads have to continually fundraise from their OHT, hospitals, business community/ Chamber of Commerce, municipality, community foundations, developers, business leaders, etc to keep their programs going. They raise funds for their programs which includes their pay, travel, and materials and most also need funds for incentive money for newly-signed family doctors who are choosing to start practices where they can get financial relief from their student debt and moving costs. As different communities have different abilities to provide these funds, there is a disparity between areas with a recruiter and incentive funds and without. Tillsonburg has neither. *The physician recruiters of Ontario have self-organized into a group called Ontario Physician Recruitment Alliance and under the leadership of Jill Croteau, have created a job board with family doctor postings from across the province. (This is new so not all the areas have their postings up yet). www.opra.ca -The GTA does not have family doctor recruiters and this task is typically handled by clinic owners.

After reading about an agitated patient who assaulted multiple healthcare employees at Temple University Hospital, the dangers care teams face daily could not be more apparent. While the job is tireless, it doesn't have to be, nor should it be, thankless. Just a reminder to show and share your gratitude with your care teams and keep in mind what they have to go through every day, in the name of helping and serving others. Katherine Virkstis highlighted the importance of gratitude in this recent article that calls out how it fosters deeper connections between us all. #jobsafety #nurseappreciation #nurserecognition https://lnkd.in/e3czTyqK

When things are hectic and loud with a critical patient in the ER, I actually speak slower and quieter, because it forces everyone else to lower their voice, too. In the same way, the only thing I like more than a hot take is a drab, lukewarm, reasonable take when everyone else in the room is being inflammatory. So here goes nothing: what most physicians think about NPPs —?non-physician practitioners like nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs). I'm not here to attack any professional group —?I think our struggles have way more in common while many would seek to divide us —?but we need to see common sense changes and modernization to address a growing sense of division, animosity, and resentment. It feels like the same "red vs blue" and "Republican vs Democrat" stuff we see everywhere else these days — and look where that's gotten us as a country. The focus must always be on the safety and the quality of the care provided to our patients. I do feel a lot of the blame is on employers here. Article in the comments.

Struggling with high patient volumes and long wait times, UMass Memorial Health’s ED turned to Self-Service Rounding (SSR). Two healthcare leaders share their journey of leveraging SSR to gather real-time patient feedback and reduce the workload for staff. Read the blog to learn more about how SSR can make your emergency department more efficient, responsive and patient-centered. https://lnkd.in/gd2VB4Nw

On a new episode of Health Affairs This Week, Marianne Amoss and Jeff Byers explain the latest federal rulemaking activities on organ transplants and nursing facility staffing levels. https://hubs.la/Q02yD7nk0

Shasta County, California faces a severe physician shortage. Local residency programs, like those at Mercy Family Health Center, Shasta Community Health Center (THC grantee), and Shasta Regional Medical Center train physicians, and about a third are remaining in the area. Efforts to recruit and retain doctors are ongoing, with community support playing a crucial role. Initiatives to improve working conditions and foster stronger ties between physicians and the community offer hope for addressing the shortage in the future. https://lnkd.in/gBnA59Nn #THCGME #CommunityHealthCenters

A recent study questions the effectiveness of the Medicare Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) in reducing "upcoding" behaviors in nursing facilities. Researchers from the University of Rochester and the University of Texas at Austin conducted a seven-year analysis, identifying exploitation patterns that impact resident care. The study, yet to undergo peer review, faced criticism from the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL). https://buff.ly/48fZmpK #seniorcare #longtermcare #healthcare