Once we have released the beast of Coronavirus, under what circumstances would you expect local/state/federal officials to re-institute social distancing??

Governors all over the USA are relaxing social distancing restrictions and definitions of what is and is not an essential business. The biggest fear is reigniting the pandemic and flooding the local healthcare system with critically ill patients.

Fee For Service Payment Dark Side = Massive Healthcare Industry Financial Losses in the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Perfect Storm - is this the Beginning of the End of Fee-For-Service Medicine in the USA?

There are MASSIVE LOSSES across the board for every healthcare delivery organization I am talking with - for weeks now.

The Mayo Clinic announcement of a projected $3 Billion 2020 loss was the first specific warning from an otherwise stable provider organization.

$100M in bailout payments to Baylor Scott and White and other Texas hospital systems is just the next in a long line of bad news for healthcare over the next 18 months.

Will this catastrophe force significant changes in the way healthcare is paid for in the USA?

The worldwide pandemic of coronavirus is a disaster with multiple layers of crushing impact

It is nearly impossible to fathom the magnitude of the devastation. BAD on top of BAD on top of BAD, like a layer cake made of fresh manure -- and you and I and everyone else has to chew and swallow a nice big slice every week for long as it takes to reach the other side.

Pandemic Medicine is Clearly More Dangerous than Battlefield Medicine to Front Line Healthcare Workers

1) Battlefield/MASH Unit:

• The danger is the enemy.
• You have specific skilled, trained and equipped people around you to protect you.
• The act of caring for patients is not dangerous for you.
• Your family is safe and far away.

2) Pandemic:

• The danger is the patients.
• Just being in the same room with them (never mind touching and treating them), especially without sufficient PPE, is an act of service that can ultimately be fatal.
• Your family is in clear and present danger as well.
• In Italy, 10% of the Covid-19 cases have been healthcare workers!
  
  

No Comparison ... so please Stop the Battlefield Analogies!!

Attention Senior Healthcare Leaders - your personal leadership response to this COVID-19 crisis will lock in the culture of your teams for the next 5 years.

• The tail is long
• The time for leadership is now
• How are you showing up?

When the pandemic forces your people to strap on their PPE for each shift, putting themselves at daily risk in order to serve the sick and dying - they are watching for any signs that someone has their back. 

If we polled them ...
... how do you think your people would rate the quality of your crisis leadership, on a 0 -10 scale?

Thank You and Two Powerful Self Care Tools for Physicians seeing patients this week in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Two quick and powerful tools from our coaching practice show you how to take great care of yourself between shifts - things that allow you to rise above the programming of our medical education in your hours of greatest need. AND ... 

Thank you
Thank you
Thank you!!

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• Here is the link to the blog post on "the Lightworker's Dilemma"

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