AGENCY TESTIMONY
H+H's goal to standardize physician contracts and work rules
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Dr. Katz emphasizes H+H's commitment to standardizing contracts and work rules across the system to create more fairness and reduce administrative complexity.
- The goal is to establish common work rules and practices across different hospitals and affiliates
- This standardization aims to reduce feelings of inequity among physicians
- The process is challenging due to the existing complex structure and varying agreements
Mitch Katz
0:19:29
Regardless of who our doctors work for, we are committed to them.
0:19:34
We are committed both to their economic well-being, and to their, well-being from a mental health point of view, from a physical health point of view, it's hard to be a doctor.
0:19:48
It's hard to practice a lot.
0:19:50
I mean, everybody within the health care role has difficult aspects of their job, but a lot is expected of physicians in terms of the ones to decide what the ultimate orders are, and especially in a safety net system where things can often, feel more chaotic, where there may be less support staff, people do experience, secondary trauma.
0:20:20
Secondary trauma is when you're hurt because somebody else was hurt, because you couldn't get what you wanted, for them.
0:20:29
We've we've done our best both before COVID and even more intensely after COVID, to try to put in place the various supports that would enable our physicians to feel good, and to be able to do their best work.
0:20:45
I think this is an area where there is more that can be done.