Bruce Cummings
New insights into tackling the healthcare workforce crisis
Healthcare crisis: burnout, turnover high. Leaders must empower staff, streamline workflows, and use AI.
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Bruce Cummings
Oct 314 min read
An important advance in reducing clinician burnout is also good for improving executive-clinician relations
An advance in reducing clinician burnout is the PSH40 metric, defining scheduled patient hours for fairer workloads and better balance.
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Bruce Cummings
Oct 243 min read
How to know if you have a true healthcare system versus a "roll-up" of parts and pieces?
Real healthcare success comes from a unified clinical team, not scale. Trust, shared values, and clinician involvement are key.
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Bruce Cummings
Oct 113 min read
Think AI will cure all that ails hospitals and health systems?
MIT Professor says to lower one's expectations For those healthcare leaders hoping that AI will deliver extraordinary improvements in the...
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Bruce Cummings
Oct 44 min read
A new robust report from Mercer forecasts the healthcare workforce in 2028
Mercer's new report forecasts the U.S. healthcare workforce in 2028, revealing a mix of shortages and surpluses across roles and regions.
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Bruce Cummings
Sep 203 min read
What’s the latest news on the physician shortage?
The physician shortage continues. McKinsey reveals key drivers and solutions for clinician retention.
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Bruce Cummings
Sep 164 min read
What does the latest research reveal about "Healthy Organizations"?
McKinsey's report has important lessons for Hospital and Health System Leaders. "Organizational health is a moving target". That's the...
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Bruce Cummings
Sep 63 min read
Philanthropy as Therapy for Clinicians?
Philanthropy in healthcare can offer more than financial support—it can also help reduce clinician burnout.
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Bruce Cummings
Sep 32 min read
“First, do no harm” applies to leaders, too
Administrivia, the endless non-clinical tasks imposed on clinicians, is frustrating but often unavoidable. However, when leadership decision
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Bruce Cummings
Aug 123 min read
Exploring The Role of "Administrivia" As a Key Factor in Clinician Burnout
There are great tech solutions to much of administrivia, and yet there are still plenty of aspects for which there are no tech solutions.
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Bruce Cummings
Aug 53 min read
Increasing retention, decreasing burnout, and improving operational results: (re)building clinician-executive trust
(re)building clinician-executive trust to improve patient care, enhance staff retention, and create a harmonious work environment.
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Bruce Cummings
Jul 243 min read
Increasing retention, decreasing burnout, and improving operational results: (re)building clinician-executive trust
Trust. It’s easy to describe, but increasingly difficult to find in hospitals and health systems. How did we get here?
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Bruce Cummings
May 74 min read
JAMA Open Network Piece On Clinician Burnout Misses The Bigger Target
Peer support teams are effective but will not end clinician burnout...
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Bruce Cummings
Apr 305 min read
Expecting NIOSH to Reveal the Secrets to Reducing Burnout in Healthcare?
So much anticipated, so little actionable guidance...
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Bruce Cummings
Apr 244 min read
Constructive Feedback to the California Nurses Association (CNA): Rethink Your Position or at Least Re-work Your Public Pronouncements Regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The CNA would be wise to look the potential AI gift horses in the mouth, not reject it out of hand...
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Bruce Cummings
Apr 174 min read
The RN Shortage in the US: Another Truism That's Not, Well, True
To change the staffing results, change the conditions...
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Bruce Cummings
Apr 124 min read
Question: What Major National Healthcare Organization is Missing in Action on Clinician Burnout? Answer: The American Hospital Association
A venerable organization serves up up pablum instead of meaningful, actionable advice.
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Bruce Cummings
Apr 24 min read
The Case for Healthcare Executives to Embrace, Not Fear Physician-Nurse Allyship
Additional findings in support of hospital leadership teams doing well by doing good.
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Bruce Cummings
Mar 265 min read
Yet Another Data-Rich Case Study Highlighting the Nexus Between the Workplace and Health
McKinsey shows how employers doing good for their people results in both organizations and their people doing well.
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Bruce Cummings
Mar 215 min read
Is the Staffing Crisis Over in Healthcare? No, There's Still Time to Act.
But senior leaders need to reimagine and redesign the workplace. Now.
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