BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:6521-4bbe28306f5a67955d958ce35c2f497e@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260307T154946Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190314T144500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190314T160000 SUMMARY:Hiding in Plain Sight: Fixing a Broken Healthcare System by Paying Atten tion to Workers and their Working Conditions DESCRIPTION:\nAriel Avgar\, Associate Professor of \;Labor Relations \, Law\, and History\n\n \; \; \; \; \; \; \ ; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;& nbsp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;&nb sp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Cornell ILR School\n\nThe U.S. healthcare system is in an ongoing state of crisis. Like systems in other developed countries\, healthcare organi zations are struggling to confront multiple and competing pressures that have made it increasingly difficult to advance the worthy but allusive goal of delivering safe\, high quality\, consistent\, affordable\, and a ccessible patient care. Choose the metric&mdash\;mortality rates\, hospi tal readmissions\, medical and medications errors\, hospital acquired in fections\, or patient satisfaction&mdash\;and there is much to be concer ned about. Put simply\, the U.S. healthcare system is underperforming by almost any clinical measure used. In this talk I will set forth the arg ument that a comprehensive and sustainable fix to healthcare will only e merge once policy makers and organizational leaders turn their attention to healthcare workers\, the manner in which they are employed\, and the conditions under which they work. At the heart of the healthcare system &rsquo\;s shortcomings\, according to this argument\, is a broken employ ment relations model\, one that is not aligned with the delivery of high quality\, affordable\, and accessible care. Employment relations factor s\, I maintain\, are central drivers of almost all quality of care\, cli nical integration\, patient access\, and financial outcomes that stand a t the heart of a well-functioning and high performing healthcare system. It is these factors that affect healthcare organizations&rsquo\; very a bility to confront the many serious challenges they face.\n\nFor more de tails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hiding_in_plain_sight_fixing_a_br oken_healthcare_system_by_paying_attention_to_workers_and_their_working_ conditions/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Ariel Avgar, Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History

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The U.S. healthcare system is in an ongoing state of crisis. Like systems in other developed countries, healthcare organizations are struggling to confront multiple and competi ng pressures that have made it increasingly difficult to advance the wor thy but allusive goal of delivering safe, high quality, consistent, affo rdable, and accessible patient care. Choose the metric—mortality r ates, hospital readmissions, medical and medications errors, hospital ac quired infections, or patient satisfaction—and there is much to be concerned about. Put simply, the U.S. healthcare system is underperform ing by almost any clinical measure used. In this talk I will set forth t he argument that a comprehensive and sustainable fix to healthcare will only emerge once policy makers and organizational leaders turn their att ention to healthcare workers, the manner in which they are employed, and the conditions under which they work. At the heart of the healthcare sy stem’s shortcomings, according to this argument, is a broken emplo yment relations model, one that is not aligned with the delivery of high quality, affordable, and accessible care. Employment relations factors, I maintain, are central drivers of almost all quality of care, clinical integration, patient access, and financial outcomes that stand at the h eart of a well-functioning and high performing healthcare system. It is these factors that affect healthcare organizations’ very ability t o confront the many serious challenges they face.

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