Flexible scheduling: smoother workflow, happier doctors?

Several hospitalist groups have moved to create flexible scheduling for their staff given the heightened need to reduce physician burnout and improve retention. These changes reflect studies including a literature review posted this year by Global Advances in Integrative Medicine and Health that looked at the prevalence of burnout among women clinicians.

Flexible scheduling: smoother workflow, happier doctors?

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Clinician well-being has often focused solely on the individual through “burnout” or “resiliency” training because participation and completion can be tracked. While these programs can be helpful, they often ring false or incomplete when not accompanied by systemic changes. Clinician professional well-being initiatives should encompass personal wellness techniques and tie organizational, systemwide and policy improvements […]

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Intermountain Idaho physician group closes; 10 locations affected

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health’s physician group Saltzer Health in Nampa, Idaho, closed March 29. The physician group filed a WARN notice Jan. 22 for its Meridian surgery center indicating 216 layoffs.

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Medicare Transitional Care Management Program and Changes in Timely Postdischarge Follow-Up

In this cross-sectional interrupted time-series study of 77 million Medicare discharges from 2010 to 2019, implementation of TCM payments was associated with a statistically significant and persistent increase in rates of postdischarge primary care follow-up, increasing from 31.9% in 2010 to 39.2% in 2019. Despite this increase, demographic and socioeconomic disparities in rates of follow-up […]

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