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Employee Turnover – The Hidden Cost

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Additionally, companies with high turnover of skilled employees, such as health care workers and hi-tech positions, may have to wait some time to fill that vacant spot. Implementing a plan to retain your employees is a sure way to make your business more profitable and competitive. So what’s the good news?

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Healthcare Mergers: An Emerging Crisis | StrategyDriven

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area, a move it describes as “driven largely by health care reform, which demands an integrated regional network.&# Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. Johns Hopkins is not alone.

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Obama: The Great Answerer

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Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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What Employers Can Do to Accelerate Health Care Reform

Harvard Business Review

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers.

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The Costs of Racial Disparities in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Leaders in government, business, and health care must address these persistent disparities at the national, state, and local levels, as both an ethical and an economic imperative. Promote a diverse health care workforce. Deliver patient-centered care. years in 1970 to 3.8

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Fixing the Gender Imbalance in Health Care Leadership

Harvard Business Review

As of 2011, organizations must have received at least Silver Awards to qualify for National Institute for Health Research Funding. The Future of Health Care. The women are paired with executive advocates with whom they work on development plans and check in on a quarterly basis after initial face-to-face meetings.

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Teamwork: Sharing the Blame! :: Women on Business

Women on Business

That programming for survival tells us to be wary and make sure there is a backup plan for safety. The historic health care bill that is now on its. Stress will make us be less accountable, less willing to risk telling the whole truth. I love to teach teams to “ practice safe stress ”. Do you know Agent Stan Conch?

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