Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, hospital and health system executives face enormous financial pressures. Labor costs are up across the board, including for anesthesia services, and anesthesiologists must recognize that hospital and health system executives typically view the anesthesiology department as either a barrier – and a costly one at that – or an asset. It's vital to ensure your hospital executives understand the role the specialty can play in helping address their financial challenges.
The “Be the Solution: Sell Your C-Suite on the Value and Leadership of Anesthesiologists” program helps you do just that by positioning yourselves as leaders in hospitals and health systems and promoting your value with the C-suite. The program – created by a working group of anesthesiologists who are health care executives ourselves – provides tools and resources to help you champion the specialty and patient-centered, physician-led anesthesia care. One of the toolkit topics –...