Physician Leader
Innovation Leadership Challenge: Collaborating to Improve Hospital Flow, Save Lives and Reduce Costs
Date: July 25, 2018
Time: 8:00- 5:00 p.m. PT
The Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee recently submitted four recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services, including a recommendation that the agency test the AHA-supported Advanced Care Model to support people with advanced illness. The Coalition…
Committee on Clinical Leadership MembersBrooke Buckley, MD, FACS, Chair, serves as chief medical officer of Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospit
Physicians spend many years learning clinical practice, yet we don’t prepare them for change management or self-leadership. The AHA Physician Alliance has partnered with Novant Health and OneTeam Leadership on a pilot program to help fill this gap in training.
Thursday, April 19, 2018
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a Vital Signs report identifying the threats associated with antibiotic resistance (AR) and recommending “early and aggressive action” to prevent resistant pathogens from spreading in health care facilities.
Background
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 imposed caps on the number of residents for which each teaching hospital is eligible to receive Medicare direct graduate medical education (DGME) and indirect medical education (IME) reimbursement. These caps have remained in place and have generally only…
To fully understand how physician practice and contracting arrangements and their relationships with hospitals are developed and affect care delivery, the AHA conducted a baseline survey of the nation’s hospitals and health systems to gather data on the types of relationships physicians and…
The AHA Physician Alliance supports clinical and administrative leadership collaborating effectively for better health of communities.