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35. RNMD: History of Healthcare Administrators


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💰Why do Healthcare Administrators, who have never done direct patient care, run our hospitals? Who are they and how do they impact doctors and nurses? Why do Healthcare Administrators make large salaries while our coworkers continue to spend hours in COVID rooms?

💵 In this episode, Abby and her doctor friend Jason dive into the history of hospital administration from the beginning of our hospital systems and the change in leadership that has been quietly implemented in the last 3 decades. 


Topics:

  • What is a Healthcare Administrator?
  • Who ran hospitals before Healthcare Administrators?
  • Almshouses
  • Religious hospitals, nuns, clergy
  • Professionalization of Doctors and Nurses
  • Government involvement in hospital operations in the 1950s - 1980s
  • Pressures Health Admin put on HCWs
  • Massive growth of Health Admin profession 
  • How Health Admins contribute to burnout 
  • Education requirements for Healthcare Admins
  • Patient outcomes related to Healthcare Admin salaries 
  • Pay for Health Admins
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    💲References:

    https://essentialhospitals.org/about/history-of-public-hospitals-in-the-united-states/

    https://www.athenahealth.com/knowledge-hub/practice-management/expert-forum-rise-and-rise-healthcare-administrator

    https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/nhhc/nurses-institutions-caring/history-of-hospitals/

    https://www.columbiasouthern.edu/blog/june-2019/health-care-administration-careers

    https://www.modernhealthcare.com/providers/hospital-ceos-get-big-raises-despite-pressure-control-healthcare-costs

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2019/06/26/top-u-s-non-profit-hospitals-ceos-are-racking-up-huge-profits/?sh=208d256519df

    https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/study-sheds-light-executive-pay-healthcare-industry

    http://www.total-comp.com/Total%20Compensation%20Solutions%202019%20Hospital%20Executive%20Compensation%20Report%20-%20Sample%20Report.pdf

    https://www.gq.com/story/eat-the-health-care-ceos

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