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The Three Strategies to Boost Physician Engagement Now

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Three practical strategies that can be implemented to boost physician engagement are presented this week on our Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast.

We encourage you to make time for today’s episode with Dr. George Mayzell and Brooke Billingsley if physician engagement is a priority in your organization. This short podcast (less than 30 minutes long) could make a major difference in your strategic planning as we head into 2023. 

Our Healthcare Experience Foundation coaching team, led by Dr. Mayzell and Brooke, share the results of our work at over 100 healthcare organizations to advance physician and provider engagement in this podcast. 

We also share research on the most impactful strategies to restore resilience, compassionate practice, and loyalty. Our goal by the conclusion of this podcast is to have three practical strategies for you to take back to your organization.

The Three Strategies  

Here are the three strategies as outlined in today’s podcast:

  1. Make Sure Values are Aligned. (This leads to the right culture with teamwork and collaboration.)
  2. Solicit Input and Use Active Listening Skills. (This builds trust and solidifies strong relationships.)
  3. Invest in Leadership Development. (Clinical leaders will be able to balance the economics and clinical outcomes.) 

Fighting Burnout

Since burnout and physician engagement are linked so tightly, it is nearly impossible to have a conversation about one topic without mentioning the other. With that in mind, a lot of today’s conversation with Dr. Mayzell and Brooke surrounds burnout. 

“If you’re engaged, the burnout goes way down. If you’re burned out, the engagement goes way down, so even though they’re not directly linked, they’re very indirectly linked with a lot of the same factors contributing inversely to each other,” said Dr. Mayzell. 

Understanding burnout can be tricky, as noted by Dr. Mayzell.

“Burnout is defined differently by different people and there is no real set guidelines for determining it. It is on a continuum and it fluctuates each day,” he said. 

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You can listen to today’s podcast – in its entirety – here: 

About Today’s Speakers

Dr. Mayzell is a board-certified internist, geriatrician, and a physician coach and speaker with HXF. Dr. Mayzell is a leading expert on resilience and burnout, and he also authored the book, The Resilient Healthcare Organization: How to Reduce Physician and Healthcare Worker Burnout.

Brooke has been a healthcare professional for 25 years. She currently serves as Vice President of Service Excellence with HXF. 

Looking for more podcasts with Dr. Mayzell and Brooke? Check out some of these past episodes to learn more:

About the HX Matters Podcast

Our podcast is dedicated to transforming the health care experience so that every person can receive and deliver the best care.

You can subscribe to our podcast for free on all major podcast platforms and for video of our interviews, you can always check out the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) on YouTube. Catch up on all episodes of our podcast by subscribing and following us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music and more.

The last five episodes of the Healthcare Experience Matters Podcast are available here: 

More HX Matters Podcasts

Our podcast is dedicated to transforming the health care experience so that every person can receive and deliver the best care.

You can subscribe to our podcast for free on all major podcast platforms and for video of our interviews, you can always check out the Healthcare Experience Foundation (HXF) on YouTube. Catch up on all episodes of our podcast by subscribing and following us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music and more.

Meet George Mayzell, MD, MBA

Dr. Mayzell has a passion for helping healthcare leaders, staff and physicians restore purpose and joy to their work. At the Healthcare Experience Foundation, Dr. Mayzell is working to innovate physician leadership development, build resilient and engaged physicians and providers, strengthen relationships between administration and medical staff, and develop patient-centered competencies.

As a physician, chief medical officer, senior leader, and now coach, Dr. Mayzell draws upon his extensive experience to help organizations create meaningful improvements that matter.

Before joining the Healthcare Experience Foundation team, Dr. Mayzell served in a variety of notable capacities over the years. He is the founder and president of Empowered Healthcare, the past Chief Clinical Officer for Vizient Southeast, has served as the SVP/CMO and Chief Clinical Integration Officer for AMITA Health in Chicago, has served as CEO of Health Choice (a PHO and CIN), as well as a SVP of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare in Memphis.

In addition to more than 10 years of practice experience, Dr. Mayzell has dedicated more than 10 years of his life working in senior leadership positions for the University of Florida and Shands Hospital, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida. He has held positions on the c-suite, as medical director and has worked through complexities such as care management redesign, clinical variation, clinical integration and physician leadership.

Dr. Mayzell has co-authored several books including “Leveraging Lean in Healthcare” and “Physician Alignment, as well as “Population Health”.

Dr. Mayzell is a board certified internist and geriatrician, having received his medical degree from The Rutgers News Jersey Medical School, and his MBA from Jacksonville University.

While Dr. Mayzell finds his role in administration and leadership fulfilling, he believes that there’s no greater fulfillment than helping health systems and physicians achieve their full potential.

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