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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists. Eliminating layers of management. cancel or rebid them). As the U.S.

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America’s Loneliest Workers, According to Research

Harvard Business Review

Loneliness should be as important to managers, CFOs, and CEOs as it is to therapists. The last half-decade of research has demonstrated that loneliness threatens not only our physical health and well-being , but also our livelihood. Yet we are often blind to this hidden drain on health and revenue.

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