by John G. Self | May 29, 2015 | Healthcare
TYLER, Texas — On Monday night I received a call that shook my world. A late afternoon Memorial Day storm swept through this East Texas City of 98,000 producing funnel clouds and torrential downpours. After the storms had passed, the root structure of a massive Red...
by John G. Self | Apr 22, 2015 | Healthcare, Stories
In Why Hospitals Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care published in 2008, author John Nance makes a case that hospitals would do well to incorporate aviation’s best practices into their daily operations. Clearly he was talking about...
by John G. Self | Apr 15, 2015 | Healthcare, Leadership
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — While the money we make for the work we do is important, we must always remember to maintain perspective as these four vignettes reveal. A top interim physician CEO, a JohnGSelf + Partners team member, did not start his career in medicine. ...
by John G. Self | Feb 23, 2015 | Healthcare, Leadership
There are too many chiefs and not enough Indians. I have heard that phrase for as long as I can remember. My dad, the owner of a successful retail bakery, was fond of the phrase, especially when his business partner, my mother, began to micromanage his day. In...
by John G. Self | Dec 1, 2014 | Current Affairs, Healthcare
There are dire predictions for the future of small community hospitals as healthcare/payment reform and deficit reduction plays out: many will be forced to close their doors. USA Today recently chronicled the plight of Richland, GA, a community that saw it’s 25-bed...
