Administrators Can Make or Break Nurse and Physician Satisfaction

Administration plays a very large role in the Overall Satisfaction of both doctors and nurses.  Physicians want to feel they have good personal lines of communication with administration, that administration is responsive to their needs, and that administrators are capable of running an efficient, high-quality operation.  They also want to be convinced that administration is up to the challenge of dealing with difficult peer review issues.  Nurses want to be able to trust administrators and feel they are thical in their decision-making.  They want to believe administrators will spend the money it takes to run the hospital effectively. [More]

Can You Afford to Settle for "Satisfied Physicians?"

Healthcare leaders know that without a steady, growing stream of referrals and admissions from a cadre of loyal medical staff members, it can be very difficult to grow revenues.  HealthStream Research has found that hospitals can advance their culture by developing physicians who are not only loyal admitters but who are also engaged in the improvement of patient care.  Unfortunately, our data tells us too many hospitals are settling for physicians who are, on average, only "satisfied." [More]

Predictors of Physician Hospital Satisfaction by Category of Specialization

It is vital to know what kinds of things are important to physicians as it relates to their practice in the hospital. What factors are related to physicians’ satisfaction with the hospital as a place to practice medicine? Do these factors vary by physician specialty or are they constant across different types of physicians? These are some of the questions that led to the current discovery paper. [More]

Physician Satisfaction: Rural vs. Urban Hospitals

The challenges faced today by hospitals in rural areas are immensely different than those in urban areas.  One of these challenges is retention of quality physicians.  Currently, 25% of the US population lives in rural areas, yet only 10% of the US physicians work in rural areas.  These facts, coupled with the older and sicker rural populations cause greater shortages in the number of rural physicians and makes the hospitals jobs even harder. [More]


Critical Success Factors for Physician Relations Program Development

HealthStream Research conducted in-depth interviews with eighteen executives responsible for physician sales and/or referral management departments to provide an understanding of how other healthcare organizations across the country built their departments and learn from their experiences.  [More]