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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #174 Saving Lives Through Hospital-based Operations Management with Eugene Litvak PhD, President & CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Optimization
Description: Friends,
I think you’ll all understand this. Every once in a while an issue comes along which has such importance and urgency that you’re compelled to do something about it. In this case, I had a phone call with our expert guest a week ago, and ten minutes into the discussion, I stopped him and said ‘we have to do this podcast interview immediately and get it out there’.
The compelling issue includes: (1) the severe and worsening nursing burnout and subsequent shortage; (2) the overcrowding of Emergency Departments with prolonged ED “boarding” and (3) morbidity and mortality...