employee retention

  • sponsored content

    Healthcare Transformation: Boosting Data Quality, Tackling Burnout, and Charting the Future

    This on-demand webinar explores the impact of poor data quality and methods to improve patient data quality. It highlights technology that can improve workflows to help reduce workforce burnout.

    / Sep 12, 2023 at 1:30 PM
  • Health Tech, Hospitals

    What Providers Need to Know About Fighting the Nursing Shortage Through Tech

    A new Accenture report laid out considerations that hospitals should keep in mind as they adopt new technology aimed at improving nurse retention. Some of the report’s key recommendations for providers were to build a strong, cloud-based technology infrastructure and to involve nurses early on in the process of adopting a new digital tool.

    / Aug 13, 2023 at 10:02 AM
  • Sponsored Post

    How to Improve Poor Data Quality Across the Healthcare Ecosystem and Make Workflows More Manageable

    The webinar, sponsored by Intelligent Medical Objects, will explore the impact of poor data quality and methods to improve patient data quality. It will also highlight healthcare industry employee burnout and how to improve retention.

    / Jul 26, 2023 at 7:30 AM
  • Health Tech, Hospitals

    To Get Better Staffing Levels, Hospitals Must Prioritize Nurses’ Hiring Demands

    Many health systems aren’t employing the right tactics for hiring and retaining nurses, according to a new report. It argued that hospitals would have an easier time hiring and retaining nurses if they focused more on the things workers want most from their employers — such as flexible scheduling and professional development opportunities.

    / Jun 13, 2023 at 7:45 PM
  • Health Tech

    How Receiving Positive Patient Feedback Can Help Boost Clinicians’ Job Satisfaction

    Feedtrail believes healthcare workers become more satisfied in their roles when they’re connected to messages of patient gratitude, so it built technology to deliver that positive feedback to clinicians. The company recently announced the results of a five-month clinician retention workgroup, finding that 77% of clinicians agreed that consistently receiving positive patient messages reinforced their purpose.

    / May 2, 2023 at 2:58 PM
  • Health Tech, Hospitals, SYN

    Current Health CEO: At-Home Care Models Could Lead to Better Staff Retention

    Many healthcare workers prefer providing at-home care because it allows them to provide more personal, less hectic care than they can on the hospital floor, said Current Health CEO Chris McGhee. He thinks health systems should realize that switching more healthcare workers to at-home care could help alleviate the burnout crisis and improve staff retention levels.

    / Mar 31, 2023 at 1:47 PM
  • Health Tech, Hospitals, SYN

    Stanford Becomes 2nd California Health System to Grant Workers’ Big Raises This Month

    Healthcare workers at Stanford Medical Center and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital ratified a new agreement that increases their wages by 15% over the next three years. It’s been good month for nurses unions in Northern California — Kaiser Permanente nurses recently ratified a new contract that increased wages by 22.5% over four years and included provisions for improved staffing.

    / Dec 16, 2022 at 6:38 PM
  • Health Tech, Hospitals, SYN

    One tactic to reduce burnout and resignation? No meetings among senior staff

    This April, MultiCare Health System rolled out an initiative called Spring Connection Week, a week in which meetings were cleared from the schedules of supervisors, managers and directors so that they could conduct one-on-one rounds with their frontline staff. Stacey Parkin, MultiCare’s chief patient experience officer, thinks other hospitals should steal the idea as a way to illuminate the biggest problems their workforces face.

    / Jul 15, 2022 at 1:02 PM
  • health insurance, payers, group insurance

    MedCity Influencers, Consumer / Employer, Employee Benefits

    A new kind of CMO: Why your company needs a chief medical officer

    Companies in every industry are now hiring a chief medical officer—an executive once found only in healthcare organizations—to implement and oversee programs that optimize employee well-being.

    / May 10, 2022 at 10:48 AM
  • Employee Benefits, Health Services, SYN

    Employers have a litany of factors to consider with pandemic plans

    Employers, faced with a plethora of options for return-to-work programs, will still have to consider several factors beyond testing and contact tracing. For instance, how will they communicate for employees to stay home, and will a vaccine be required?

    / Nov 15, 2020 at 11:25 AM
  • health insurance, payers, group insurance

    MedCity Influencers

    Let’s hang on to what we’ve got: why employee retention is crucial

    Retention will always be a challenge, but it is one that can be met by putting the right people in the right positions, supporting them and creating the best culture possible.

    / May 9, 2019 at 6:12 PM
  • Startups, Patient Engagement, Payers

    Randomized control study shows little benefit from employee wellness programs

    Researchers said their findings stand in contrast with the majority of the literature around workplace wellness programs which tended to find large positive returns on investment but were “based on observational designs with methodological shortcomings such as potential selection bias.”

    / Apr 21, 2019 at 10:18 AM