RCMA Leadership Retreat Strategic Priorities Summary October 22, 2015 RCMA/CMA 2015-2017, Burnout, Physician Recruitment, Priorities, RCMA, Retreat 0 2015-2017 STRATEGIC PRIORITIES Membership in RCMA drives and supports all priorities RCMA Member Work Groups Now Forming. Volunteer at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RCMASurvey PRIORITY #1: Physician recruitment and retention in Riverside County What Makes Riverside County “THE” Place To Practice • Multi-faceted marketing campaign – which could include: o Identify Stakeholders in increasing doctors, health needs as well as economic impact (Riv. Co. EDD; Chambers, Hospitals, Medical Schools, Groups/IPAs, Clinics, Corporation, Health Plans, IEHP, Cities and County of Riverside) o Showcase Riverside County communities - 45 minutes to beaches, desert, mountains; Low Cost of Living; Housing & Education; Plenty of opportunity to build practice/patients o Showcase different models of practice opportunities in Riv. Co. using local RCMA physicians o Recruitment business partners o Focus groups of new docs – what did it take to get them to Riv. Co. o Focus groups of potential new docs – what would it take to come to Riv. Co. o Sustainability of doctors in community o Develop what a “package” would look like for the smaller physician practices needing to recruit o Recruitment Fairs for Residents and New Doctors - In person and virtual - Go to them, i.e. peer to peer (Young Physicians to Residents; colleagues, friends, family; use CMA and AMA RSS and YPS Sections o Open Houses by local physicians/medical groups o RCMA develop a “match.com” type of service using overall showcase of Riv.Co with links to doctors/groups hiring to highlight their organization dynamic with secured access to update regularly o Social Media: videos, u-tubes, email, etc • Survey existing RCMA/Non-Members on need for physicians in next 1 yr & 3-5 yrs • Develop innovative ideas in funding new doctors • Increase funding in RCMA’s Medical Student Scholarship Program and expand to Residents/New Physicians • Increase physician revenue Community based residency training • Increase number of residency trainings • Increase funding for residency programs • Job Fairs for residents • Provide economic incentives to stay Mentoring • Create new physician mentoring program to help attachment to area • Develop more “social” mentoring programs to engage and make Residents & Interns want to stay in Riverside County. PRIORITY #2: Addressing physician burnout and discontent Burnout and discontent is in every mode of practice How can RCMA Help and Provide Resources? Practice redesign and innovation • Help with practice transformation • Identify and educate on new models of medicine • Identify creative ways of using extenders(ACPs) o Physician productivity – practice at top of license o Use of ACPs in hospitals-obstacles to overcome o Tools for utilizing staff at top of expertise/license o Reengineering staff to assist physicians o Identify Best Practices & Benchmarks • Physician and patient expectation management • Identifying physician burnout intervention methods • Tools for managing work and personal lifestyle, stress and balance • Provide coaching programs for increasing medical practice satisfaction EMR Burden • Improving efficiency • Analyzing EMR tools and best practices • Work with top 10 EMR systems to provide additional trainings on best use of system (Kaiser model) • Trainings on Voice Recognition Tools (i.e. Dragon Speak) • EMR workplace balance training • Develop Scribe program offering • Improve office workflow Secondary Priorities as part of RCMA ongoing activities/expertise 1. Co-opetition – RCMA serves as conveyer • HealthSystem Collaborative (City of Riverside) 2. Continue to encourage participation in IEHIE • Physician Champions to assist IEHIE in bringing on more hospitals and provider entities 3. Education on Implications of MACRA – Medicare Access and CHIP Re-Authorization Act Comments are closed.
