How should healthcare facilities approach physician burnout? 5 considerations

Practice Management

When a facility is rife with physicians who are burnt out, it negatively impacts the organization as well, according to Physician's Money Digest.

It may be wise for healthcare organizations to focus just as much on their physicians' health as the stamina of other resources.

 

Here are five things to consider:

 

1. Physician burnout can greatly impact the health of healthcare facilities, so organizations should attempt to treat and stamp out burnout.

 

2. Physician burnout is a staggering reality — approximately 400 physicians commit suicide annually, according to the article.

 

3. Replacing physicians is a costly endeavor. Healthcare facilities will accrue costs in the form of recruitment, advertisement, sign-off bonuses, moving fees, training costs and lost revenue in the interim between losing and hiring a new physician.

 

4. Physician burnout may result in lost revenue. It will impact physician performance, which will result in lower quality of care.

 

5. Patients won't return if they felt their physicians didn't care, hurting the facility's patient satisfaction.

 

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