Jackson & Coker Spotlights Challenges Facing Healthcare Executives
Industry Report Features Interview with Corbin Wilson of JPS Physician Group
Alpharetta, GA (Vocus) August 5, 2010
Executive leaders in hospitals and healthcare groups face increasingly complex challenges in steering their organizations through uncertain times, according to the latest edition of the Jackson & Coker Industry Report.
‘With so many changes occurring in the health profession, executives in the C-suite need to exhibit foresight and a degree of resilience in providing effective leadership that benefits their organizations,” mentioned Sandra Garrett, president of Jackson & Coker. “We’re always pleased to spotlight the views and insights of healthcare executives interviewed for our Industry Report who are experienced in this area,” she added.
The latest issue of JCIR features a Healthcare Executives’ Insight interview with Corbin Wilson, JD, Executive Director and the President of JPS Physician Group in Fort Worth, Texas, and Thomas McKeever, National Sales Director with Jackson Healthcare. Mr. Wilson noted a number of challenges facing contemporary healthcare executives:
Balancing the escalating physician shortage with dwindling reimbursement resources while maintaining quality standards of care is extremely important.
It’s equally challenging to balance patients’ perception of care with the manpower needed to serve a growing patient base.
To attract the best doctors, it’s important to create a practice environment where doctors have greater participation in--and can make a meaningful contribution to--the scope and processes of medical care.
Physician practice administrators often face frustration regarding what they don’t have control over—such as making sure the doctors get accurate test results on time—as well as other thorny practice issues that impinge on daily operations.
Working with providers to make sure they are aware of benchmarks and best practices in order to render the most effective, cost-sensitive patient care is an ongoing challenge.
Carefully designed recruitment and retention strategies are necessary for responsible organizational succession planning.
Devising a physician compensation plan that is equitable but particularly appealing to sought-after candidates requires careful analysis.
To promote maximum organizational efficiency, it’s important to minimize providers’ “idle time’’—and also offer compensation that rewards providers who try hard to maintain a full, efficient schedule.
Fostering “open minded and intentional communication” among medical providers, patients and staff goes a long way in improving health care delivery.
Physicians know a lot about a lot of things—so it’s beneficial for administrators or executives to listen to what their frontline caregivers are saying, thus empowering them to be more involved in the process.
It’s particularly challenging to comply with government initiatives such as PQRI reporting and transitioning to electronic medical records.
Finally, bringing satisfaction to providers in terms of achieving their occupational goals-- while equipping them with the practice environment that best meets their patients’ needs—is a never-ending goal of responsible healthcare leaders.
The current edition of JCIR also includes a special report prepared by J&C Research Associates on the topic “The Evolving Role of Physician Executives.” Among the findings is that increasingly hospitals and other healthcare organizations recognize the importance of having key administrative roles filled by individuals with a background in medicine and organizational management. Handling administrative challenges with personal knowledge of caregiving procedures is extremely beneficial, according to the report.
Administrative titles such as Chief Quality Officer and Chief Strategy Officer are becoming as commonplace as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, and Chief Technology Officer. Individuals holding these titles are, for the most part, recipients of advanced degrees and appropriate professional certifications.
The article discusses which degrees are in most demand, as well as the earning potential associated with those serving in executive leadership roles after having obtained such credentials.
Lastly, for physicians with an eye toward moving into healthcare administration, the article discusses the skills that are required to improve the clinical and financial health of the institutions served.
Here is the link to the latest Jackson & Coker Industry Report: http://www. jacksoncoker. com/physician-career-resources/newsletters/2010-june. aspx.
About Jackson & Coker
Begun over three decades ago, Jackson & Coker has been a leader in physician recruitment through the placement of physicians in both permanent placement and locum tenens physician jobs. The firm specializes in anesthesiology jobs, CRNA jobs, neurology jobs, psychiatry jobs, surgery jobs, primary care jobs as well as emergency medicine jobs. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, the firm has earned a reputation for providing cost-effective, time-sensitive solutions to both government and commercial health care organizations. The recruitment staff works in two divisions of the company: Retained Search, which places physicians in over 40 medical specialties in permanent staff positions, and locum tenens, a staffing model that recruits medical providers (physicians and CRNAs) for temporary vacancies.
Jackson & Coker has earned a “Gold Seal” designation as a “Certified Health Care Staffing Service” by the Joint Commission and is affiliated with a credentials verification organization (JH CVO) that has received certification by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in ten out of ten credentialing elements.
Jackson & Coker participates in social media networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter—including managing separate Twitter sites aligned with major medical specialties.
The firm is a member of a “family of companies” known as Jackson Healthcare, also headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia.
About Jackson Healthcare
Founded by the healthcare innovator Richard Jackson, Jackson Healthcare serves more than two million patients in nearly one thousand hospitals each year. The Jackson family of companies provides physician and clinician staffing, anesthesia management, hospital management and healthcare information technology solutions proven to improve clinical and financial outcomes, as well as increase operational efficiency. Jackson Healthcare has earned national media coverage for its physician polls and champions local and international charitable work. In addition, Jackson has been recognized as one of the fastest growing staffing companies in the country by the Inc. Magazine, Atlanta Business Chronicle, Georgia Trend and Staffing Industry Analysts. For more information about Jackson and its companies, visit Jacksonhealthcare. com. Jackson’s research reports are available in the “Market Research” section under the upper tab “Media Room” on the home page.
Media Contact:
Edward McEachern
Jackson & Coker
800-272-2707
Emceachern(at)jacksoncoker(dot)com
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