July/August 2024

Healthcare Administration Leadership & Management Journal

July/August 2024

Vol. 2, No. 4 · 15 articles

  1. HUMOR in Leadership

    HALMJ July/August 2024 Stanley E. Harris, MD, MA

    HUMOR is an acronym for remembering essential elements for building a strong leadership foundation. Each element offers an opportunity for connectivity with those you lead.

  2. Focus on Your Five Ps and One Q to Market Your Healthcare Practice

    HALMJ July/August 2024 Neil Baum, MD

    Physicians need more background and understanding of the importance of using marketing techniques to build their practices. Following a few basic principles can enhance the experience of existing patients as well as a...

  3. A Menu of Integrated Behavioral Health Options

    HALMJ July/August 2024 Kent A. Corso, PsyD, BCBA-D

    Integrated behavioral health programs require a different approach to healthcare delivery.

  4. The Price of Water: Evaluating the Potential Cost Savings of Switching from Saline to Distilled Water for Wound Irrigation

    HALMJ July/August 2024 Pearl Shah, MBA, MS, Zhidong Wang, BS, Robert Moody, BS, Nivan Lakshman, BA, John Odom, MD

    The aim of this study is to evaluate the potential cost implications for hospitals when shifting from sterile water and saline to in-house distilled water for wound care and surgical procedures.

  5. The Death Doula’s Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared

    HALMJ July/August 2024 Francesca Lynn Arnoldy, Michael J. Sacopulos, JD

    In this episode of SoundPractice, host Mike Sacopulos speaks with Francesca Arnoldy, a death doula and author of The Death Doula’s Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared.

  6. The CMO and the Chief Nursing Officer: Creating Synergy

    HALMJ July/August 2024 Nicole C. Beeson, MSN, MBA, Rex Hoffman, MD, MBA

    The Chief Nursing Officer and the Chief Medical Officer are responsible for the oversight of clinical outcomes within a complex and rapidly changing environment. Much attention has been paid to the interplay between t...

  7. The Transition from Quantity to Quality Healthcare

    HALMJ July/August 2024 Neil Baum, MD

    The field of healthcare is experiencing significant changes. The days of fee-for-service are being replaced by pay-for-performance.

  8. Physician Compensation Model Design

    HALMJ July/August 2024 Michael Agyepong, MD, MS, CPE, Christina Griffith, MS, Melissa Huff, MBA, Allison Kirkpatrick, MA

    This article shares our experiences in designing a physician compensation model for a physician-owned multispecialty group.

  9. Healthcare Through the Lens of Music

    HALMJ July/August 2024 Stephen K. Klasko, MD, MBA, Ken Terry, Michael J. Sacopulos, JD

    Klasko and Terry offer a novel proposal for reforming healthcare financing and delivery without adopting Medicare for all, and they emphasize the importance of doctors having a stake in the healthcare system and addre...

  10. What Is the Medical and Legal Risk of Physicians Supervising Advanced Practice Providers?

    HALMJ July/August 2024 Timothy E. Paterick, MD, JD, MBA

    This article highlights the legal risks and the due diligence necessary when considering how to manage the agency relationship between physicians and advanced practice providers.

  11. Patient-Centered Care: Is It Really Disruption?

    HALMJ July/August 2024 Peter B. Angood, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, MCCM, FAAPL(Hon)

    Patient-centered care is a common industry term that resonates deeply, yet truly successful implementation of it remains an enigma for most patient-care environments.

  12. Friction to Frictionless—The Amazon Way

    HALMJ July/August 2024 Neil Baum, MD, Shep Hyken

    The essence of success in a medical practice is the human connection between the patient and the practice. That human-to-human relationship should be something the patient notices, remembers, and tells others about wh...

  13. Trends in Engaging Specialists in Value-Based Care

    HALMJ July/August 2024 Kelly Raffel, MBA

    Value-based care, a healthcare delivery model in which providers are paid based on patient health outcomes and the quality of services rendered, has the potential to reduce overall healthcare costs and transform the h...

  14. Healthcare Leadership Succession Planning: Twenty-Five Strategies

    HALMJ July/August 2024 Laura Hills, DA

    An aging workforce, shrinking talent pool, and intensified competition will put healthcare organizations under increasing pressure in the years to come. The benefits of succession planning have never been more apparen...

  15. Approach to Congestive Heart Failure Readmission Reduction in a Community-Based Setting: A Field Report

    HALMJ July/August 2024 Asim Kichloo, MD, FACP, Patricia Frith, DO, MMS, Shanmukha Chandrala, MD, Sukhbir Randhawa, DO, Jasmine Dowker, RN, Ronda Fitzgerald, RN, BSN, CPQH, Stephanie Park, RN, BSN, Kristy Perez, LPN, Mario F. Victoria, MD, MMM, CPE, FAAP, FAAPL, CPE

    This article examines how a midsize community hospital designed a readmission reduction project with the goal of decreasing readmissions for patients with a primary diagnosis of congestive heart failure.