Partnership Matters
Brought to you by the Labor Management Project, Partnership Matters gathers news about best practices, training opportunities, reports and more to help you keep up with the latest trends in health care delivery and labor-management partnerships.
LMP Staff Present at National Healthcare Conferences
This fall, Labor Management Project (LMP) staff shared the results of our work at a variety of healthcare conferences. During the Organizational Development Network Annual Conference in Atlanta in October, LMP Consultants Mavis Flowers and Mike Shay presented “Managing Conflict from an Interest-Based Perspective.” Their presentation focused on how to use organizational development to manage conflict, sustain change and build organizational trust. “Taking a public position stops the search for truth and begins the need to be right,” state Flowers and Shay.
CMS Proposes to Eliminate Pain Management from Value Based Purchasing program
Hospital workers are well aware of the current opioid epidemic in New York and nationwide. Emergency rooms and inpatient units are inundated with patients who have overdosed or who have an opioid-abuse related condition. According to the New York State Department of Health, there were about 37,000 opioid-related emergency department visits in 2014, a 73 percent increase over 2010. More than 75,000 opioid-related hospital admissions were recorded in 2014. As part of government efforts to stem the surge in opioid abuse, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS) is proposing to remove the pain management dimension from the hospital Value Based Purchasing (VBP) program beginning with the 2018 fiscal year.
LMP Survey Report Offers Valuable Feedback to 1199SEIU/League Hospitals
A newly published report on the Labor Management Project (LMP)’s Worksite Wellness Survey Report of 1199SEIU/League Hospitals shows what our partner hospitals are doing to improve staff health and wellness. It also provides an opportunity for hospitals to examine their practices to consider ways to enhance their worksite and wellness programs, including coordination with programs and services available through the 1199SEIU National Benefit Fund (NBF).
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In the latest installment in the NYS Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment (DSRIP) Program whiteboard video series, Medicaid Director, Jason Helgerson, discusses healthcare system transformation beyond the goals of DSRIP such as how the health care sector can serve...
Workplace and Community Health’s Diabetes Prevention Program Achieves Results
It’s been a year since the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) was launched by the Labor Management Project’s Workplace and Community Health Program (WCHP), in partnership with 1199SEIU and Mount Sinai Beth Israel. During that time, two cohorts have completed the program, learning new skills for healthy living, and four more have begun the program.
Learning from Our Past: LMP Book Group Finds Inspiration in 1199SEIU History
How did 1199, a union begun in the 1930s by a small group of Jewish male pharmacists, grow to become the largest healthcare union in the country, with a membership of largely minority women and immigrants numbering more than 400,000? Are there lessons in the history of this union that can help union and industry leaders navigate the challenges we face today?
Helping Nursing Home Staff Assist Residents with Mental Illness
Staff who work in New York City nursing homes have reported concerns about the increasing numbers of residents with diagnoses of mental illness being admitted for care and not receiving the professional help that they need. Admissions of people with mental illness, particularly depression, have been steadily increasing over the past two decades, overtaking admissions for dementia only.
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This October marks the 10th annual Patient-Centered Care Awareness Month, a campaign organized by Planetree Inc. “to engage all healthcare stakeholders in adopting and advancing patient-centered approaches to care.” This year’s theme is “The World of Patient and...
LMP Brings Community Leaders Together to Focus on Saving Interfaith
For many years, Interfaith Medical Center (IMC) struggled to remain open. Many residents have doubted its quality due to recent stresses on the institution, including bankruptcy and a reorganization of the leadership. But many employees and managers of the medical...
LMP Trains Thousands in Patient Centered Care
As HCAHPS scores become more important for the financial health of hospitals, the need for hospital operations to improve and for hospital staff to be more customer-focused becomes more urgent. In an effort to meet that need, the Labor Management Project’s Patient...