Going after Kaiser Permanente, a company that many view as the gold standard for Medicare Advantage, indicates the problem may touch almost every corner of the industry. The lawsuit alleges Kaiser Permanente knowingly made its Medicare Advantage patients look sicker than they were, to obtain more money from the federal government. These allegations, which come…
Insurers and employers are not able to negotiate lower prices with hospital systems or establish smaller networks they believe deliver greater value when 1 or 2 healthcare systems are the only ones that own nearly all clinics and medical practices. These mergers have raised cost by as much as 50%. A new executive order, that…
What solutions are then available to improve the nursing shortage? (continued) Let us discuss the Group 2 recruitment and retention practices. I will end this series with a discussion on retention. Let us start by stating the obvious, in a market with a large labor shortage there is a high premium on retention. Staff retention…
What solutions are then available to improve the nursing shortage? (continued) Let us continue the discussion of the Group 2 recruitment and retention practices. This next strategy is probably one of the most important ones that I can offer. The nursing shortage requires adding foreign educated nurses (FEIN) into their recruitment pools as a long-term…
US Nursing Shortage (PART VII) What solutions are then available to improve the nursing shortage? (continued) Let us continue the discussion of the Group 2 recruitment and retention practices. If the shortage projections hold, the next decade will leave no choice but to look beyond the traditional employment setup. This means: Continue to tap into…
What solutions are then available to improve the nursing shortage? (continued) Let us discuss the Group 2 recruitment and retention practices. If you want to fill more positions, get better quality candidates, and decrease the time to hire, there is more to it than a great recruitment software. Here are some of the best recruitment…
What solutions are then available to improve the nursing shortage? (continued) Group 2 is a collection of operational and recruitment and retention practices that should be embedded in all healthcare organizations. Let us start with the operational methodologies, but first a side note: I am often told that none of these methodologies matters when “we…
What solutions are then available to improve the nursing shortage? I will divide the solutions in two macro groups and examine each. Group 1: involves the education and promotion of the nursing profession. These solutions are not new but achieving them have proven to be a complex and lengthy process. A joint effort by healthcare,…
