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June 21, 2023

Revolutionizing Long-Term & Nursing Home Care

It’s time to revolutionize long-term care. This segment of the healthcare system has endured enormous challenges over the last few years. Over 200,000 long-term care facility residents and staff died from Covid-19 during the pandemic. The Baby Boomer generation has entered old age, a demographic shift that reinforces how important long-term care and nursing home care are. Administrators and other staff in long-term care have had to repeatedly make do with too few resources and too much regulation.

June 9, 2023

ChatGPT: Relieving Healthcare’s Administrative Burden?

Learn how ChatGPT and other new AI chatbots do that by slashing the time clinicians and administrators spend on paperwork, giving physicians more time to interact with their patients. Then, find out how AI is specifically cutting the time spent on insurance authorizations and administrative reporting, two of the leading causes of clinician burnout. Finally, discover why healthcare administrators and clinicians who understand how to use AI platforms effectively will enjoy competitive advantages in the job market, plus more promotions and raises.

June 6, 2023

Financial Management & Patient Outcomes in Healthcare

According to a report by Kaufman Hall, 2022 was the worst financial year for hospitals since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Median monthly operating margins were in the red for 11 out of 12 months, and approximately half of all surveyed hospitals finished the year with a negative margin. Despite the figures improving in December, many experts predict that expense pressures will continue well into 2023.

May 4, 2023

Improving Health Equity Across Coverage Types

American health insurance generally falls into one of two categories: public and private. Public insurance is run by and at least partially paid for by the government, while private insurance is often run by for-profit companies and paid for by employers and individuals. While all insurance types vary in how much they cost and what they cover, fairness in treatment shouldn’t vary simply based on who is or isn’t picking up the bill. Unfortunately, it sometimes does.

April 19, 2023

Fighting Bias in Healthcare: Racism & Xenophobia

Discriminatory practices have shaped many structural elements undergirding modern society, and healthcare is no exception. Racism and xenophobia can and do cause avoidable disease and premature death among groups often already disadvantaged (The Lancet 2022). These forms of discrimination are hardly relics from the past: some of today’s most cutting-edge technology has racist and xenophobic biases built into it.

March 22, 2023

What Kaiser’s Mental Health Clinician Strike Means for Hospital Executives

Things didn’t end well for Kaiser Permanente when the open-ended, high-profile strike by 2,200 California mental health clinicians against the HMO finally concluded after ten weeks on October 20. The surprising way this strike resolved offers vital lessons for Kaiser’s top management and the executive team at every other United States healthcare system threatened by a strike.

February 1, 2023

Why Healthcare Employees Are on Strike

Union labor actions are facts of life in America’s healthcare industry these days. Since 2021, about 50 percent of the 140,000 employees who went on strike in the United States work in the healthcare sector. And right now, there are only two kinds of health systems where MHA and healthcare MBA grads are likely to interview for internships and jobs: hospitals vulnerable to a strike within the next 12 months, and those where a walkout is currently underway.

January 20, 2023

Could Amazon Become America’s Top Employer of MHA Graduates?

After Amazon already ranked as the world’s largest MBA recruiter, the takeover could very well position Amazon to hire large numbers of MHA graduates during the coming months as well. Here’s why.

January 17, 2023

Five Emerging Careers in Healthcare Administration (2023)

Healthcare administration is one of the fastest growing careers in the US. But in an increasingly complex and fragmented landscape, healthcare administration is becoming more of an umbrella term than a specific career.