by John G. Self | Nov 18, 2013 | Healthcare
It’s over. That period of time, and accompanying belief system, where regardless of how messy attempts to reform healthcare become, that everything will somehow work out, that the business model we know will survive relatively unchanged, is just not realistic. Yet,...
by John G. Self | Sep 23, 2013 | Current Affairs, Healthcare, Leadership
John is off today. The following blog first appeared in July of 2009. Reforming healthcare is one of the most complex, daunting and important tasks of this decade. What began with great hope and good intentions to avoid the reform mistakes of the past is now going...
by John G. Self | Oct 10, 2012 | Healthcare, Leadership
Believe it or not, there are still a lot of hospital CEOs who think that, in the end, everything with healthcare reform and deficit reduction will work out and that their lives running hospitals will not be turned upside down. As a consultant whose fortunes are...
by John G. Self | Sep 26, 2012 | Healthcare
This article should serve as a clarion call for healthcare CEOs. Medicare Cuts will Cost Nearly 500,000 Healthcare Jobs 09/25/2012 | by Hilary Lau | D Healthcare Magazine Mandatory spending cuts to Medicare in 2013 will result in large-scale job losses in...
by John G. Self | Jul 17, 2012 | Current Affairs, Healthcare, Leadership
One of the hidden benefits of being a healthcare recruiter is that you get to see, firsthand, the rich irony that plagues our industry. Healthcare is one of the most technologically impressive businesses in the nation—where modern miracles happen every day—yet the...