Q&A
Strategies for recruiting and retaining high-quality physicians at H+H
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Council Member Schulman asks about H+H's strategies for recruiting and retaining high-quality physicians. Dr. Katz discusses the challenges and approaches used by H+H.
- H+H relies heavily on its mission to attract and retain physicians who want to provide care with one standard regardless of insurance status
- Competitive wages are important, but determining fair compensation is complex due to multiple affiliations and specialties
- Recruiting from outside New York City is challenging due to the high cost of living
- There's ongoing discussion about how to define the market for physician compensation in the context of H+H's unique system
Lynn C. Schulman
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Okay.
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So the last question I'm gonna ask is what, you know, considering that there's some difficulties and, you know, and the doctors are, you know, they just have a lot of a lot on their plate and everything else.
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What do you do to recruit and retain high quality doctors?
Mitch Katz
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Mission.
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I mean, the at the end of the day, I think most people in jobs most reverberate with their mission, both what you're doing and mission by mission, I also include, do you like the people you work with?
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You like the people you work with, you stick it out.
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But, several of you mentioned New York City is an expensive place to work.
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Very hard for me to recruit anybody from out of New York, right, if I to my system.
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You tell people you you tell them about the job, and then they look up what the rents are.
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Right?
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If you're not you know, if you're if you've, like many of us, been here for a long time, it sort of works out.
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But if you have no family connection, New York City, very expensive place to live.
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So, you know, I mean, the good thing is we have a great mission.
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A lot of people, you know, like the idea that they can provide care with one standard, and very few pea places would allow you to do that.
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Right.
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To not have to make decisions based on somebody's insurance status.
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But we have to have also competitive wages.
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And, again, I think everybody agrees on that.
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I think the whole you know, what we're trying to figure out is in this context with these multiple affiliations and these multiple plans, what is fair compensation for and I didn't even mention.
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Right?
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We're we're not talking doctor.
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We're talking pediatrician, internal medicine, hospitalist, general surgeon, vascular surgeon, orthopedic surgeon, neurosurgeon, psyche I mean, so EU obstetrician guide I mean, so we in some areas, for example, the doctors may not agree, but I think there are some areas where we're at market.
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I think there are some areas where we're not at market.
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Mhmm.
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It turns out we don't all agree on which those are.
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Right.
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Right?
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And, again, and, again, it has to do with how you define the market.
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Do you mean what NYU and Presby are paying?
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You know, is that is that what the market is?
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Do you is the market what you can hire someone today for?
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What exactly is there are various measures that you might hear about, but the measures are all self report measures of hospitals, and they lag in time.
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And there's no New York City one.
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There's, Northeast doctors.
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There's a Northeast academic doctors.
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There's a Northeast non academic doctors.
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Is that the standard?
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Is it what you can hire for?
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We all want the same thing.
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We just have to get to something that everybody can feel good about.
Lynn C. Schulman
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K.
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Well, none of us wants to see a strike, so I'm hoping that there's some kind of settlement that's done, fairly soon.
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And, I appreciate
Mitch Katz
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Me too.
Lynn C. Schulman
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Your responses.
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And I'll hand it back over to chair Narcisse.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
Mercedes Narcisse
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Thank you, chair.
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And before I get to the next chair, I have one of the nurse in the house that wanna ask a question.