Provider Burnout

5 Tactics to Break Down Silos and Support Cross-Functional Collaboration

The Challenge: Inefficiencies continue to plague healthcare due to silos that harm morale, financial performance, and patient experience What are silos? Organizational silos are separations based on department, specialization, or location. While it might seem logical to keep teams separate and distinct from each other, the business world has long acknowledged that silos create misunderstanding, inefficiency, and unnecessary...

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Change Management | Strategic Leadership | Provider Burnout | Optimizing Flow

The Health Care Executive’s Role in Addressing Burnout

May 23, 2021 | Sarah Patterson

I have been a health care leader at Virginia Mason Health System for over 30 years, as well as an executive sensei to other health care organizations. It has been...

Performance Improvement | Provider Burnout | Optimizing Flow

Overcoming Provider Burnout and Restoring Joy to the Workplace Through Team-Based Care

July 09, 2018 | Virginia Mason Institute

Understanding the burnout epidemic Provider burnout has reached concerning levels at health systems across the world. When burnout leads to the permanently damaged...

Lean Management | Provider Burnout | Optimizing Flow

The Beauty of Intrinsic Motivation

December 31, 2015 | Virginia Mason Institute

“For me, leadership here is a vocation and I think that’s true for many of us.” – Charleen Tachibana, RN A lot has been written lately about burnout among health...

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Culture of Care

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Bridge to Excellence with Three Rivers Hospital

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Bridge to Excellence with Three Rivers Hospital

Join host Brenda McLeod in conversation with Jamie Boyer, German Meza, and Karen Gifford about ...