COVID-19 Financial Recovery: Leverage Your Workforce to Prepare for the Future
By Frances Roelfsema, MBAMoss Adams
By Bob Van Gelder, RN, MBAMoss Adams
Health care leaders endured a challenging 12 months following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially the most trying of their careers. As the other side of the pandemic approaches, hospitals that survived its financial toll can begin to evaluate how to recover and improve their financial performance as well as prepare for their organization’s long-term financial stability. While hospitals in different regions will continue to experience varying consequences from the pandemic, your organization can start developing thoughtfully crafted plans to position for a more stable world, now.
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The Remedy for Conflict in the Workplace and the World: LOVE
By Danna Beal, M.Ed.International Speaker, Author and Coach
Conflict in the workplace, as well as families, communities, and the nation, blocks the teamwork and harmony we want in the workplace culture. Conflict and mental health issues are on the rise. Employee Assistance Programs are trying to meet the demands. But treating the symptoms is not changing the culture where the real problems exist. The responsibility for transforming workplace culture resides with
leadership. Respect and true affinity for one another starts from enlightened leaders operating from
universal love, the basic and powerful force that unites human beings.
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Keeping up with Clinical Risk Management
By Danielle DonovanClinical Risk Manager, Parker Smith Feek
Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (Privacy Rule), covered entities (payers, insurers, hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers) must act on an individual’s request for access to their health records within 30 days. However, in December of 2020, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a notice of proposed changes to modify multiple standards within the Privacy Rule, including shortening covered entities’ required response time to fulfilling a patient’s request for copies of their Protected Health Information (PHI) to no later than 15 calendar days.
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