Posts by J3P Healthcare Solutions

J3P Healthcare Solutions is excited to announce that Bruce L. Gewertz, M.D., Chief of Surgery at Cedars Sinai, and Author of The Best Medicine: A Physicians Guide to Effective Leadership, will be collaborating with us as Senior Advisor for Physician Leadership. Sharing His Experience “Dr. Gewertz has been a good friend, colleague and supporter of…

“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail…with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality..” Admiral James Stockdale The “Stockdale Paradox” as it applies to crisis leadership, has received a great deal of attention recently as hospitals and physician groups react to the COVID-19 Pandemic. How does it apply, specifically,…

It Always Starts with Enhanced Self-Awareness Whether it’s coaching a physician executive, training a group of physician leaders, or improving department performance by building effective teams, our work always starts with self-awareness. Some people initially resist this concept.  They don’t want to accept that their behaviors may need to change. The change will only occur…

Like many of you, I watched the streaming performance of “Hamilton” over the holiday weekend. I thought the creative and energetic portrayal of American history was amazing! Is it bad that even while enjoying Hamilton, patient safety is on my mind?  The song “The Room Where It Happened”  got my attention.  In the song, a…

Amazing Teamwork During the Crisis During the heart of the Coronavirus crisis, our team spent a lot of time helping physician leaders navigate the onslaught of daily challenges.  As we are coming out of the immediate crisis, we consistently hear that physicians, nurses and staff were impressed with how people came together to face these…

Success will Require a New Level of “Alignment” While there is much attention being paid to physician leadership, we don’t talk about “physician-hospital alignment” as much as we used to.  Ten years-ago our strategic consulting work often included “alignment” projects.  Hospital administrators wanted deliberate plans to ensure that key groups of physicians were aligned with…

(Don’t be so focused on operations that you forget about your people. Putting your head down and “doing the work” won’t be enough.) Uncharted Territory No physician leader has dealt with this before – a months-long national crisis that’s forced some physicians and staff to work at a herculean pace, while others have been furloughed,…

(The J3P Team is offering a free COVID_19 Support Program for our physician clients during this crisis – contact us for more information.) “Organizations who value, partner with, and support their physicians will have an advantage.“ Unprecedented Uncertainty The physician job market has not changed much over the past few decades.  The driving theme has…

It’s not too early to explore what this crisis is teaching organizations and physicians about leadership. What works?  What doesn’t?  How do we move forward facing a challenge most of us never imagined and for which there is no playbook?  How do we prepare to come out of this? One thing we are hearing- investing…

Guest Blog by Dr. Rachel Mednick Thompson, Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon As an orthopaedic surgeon, I am currently not on the frontlines, fighting against the enemy that is COVID-19, as many of my colleagues are. I cannot imagine the stress faced by doctors leading the teams in the ED and the ICU, but I know that…