Lean: The key to preventing burnout in healthcare

April 8, 2025 | 9:00 am to 10:00 am
Pacific time
Contact AME: 224-232-5980 | events@ame.org

Location

Virtual Event
OVERVIEW

Healthcare Series

Clinician burnout is a key contributor to many challenges in healthcare including patient frustrations, access, staffing shortages, and financial underperformance. Many healthcare organizations offer resilience support to their clinicians. Yet clinicians are known to be some of the most resilient people in the workforce. Few organizations engage in changes that address the root cause drivers of burnout.

In this webinar, Dr. Paul DeChant, MD, MBA will an overview of the root cause drivers of burnout and how Lean management systems, and redesign activities can change healthcare organization cultures, empowering and aligning clinicians, leading to the transformational change that is key to improving healthcare for all stakeholders.

HOST COMPANY

Organizational Wellbeing Solutions helps healthcare leaders change the administrator-clinician relationship — moving away from mutual frustration to achieve meaningful collaboration — and thereby enable management of seemingly unsolvable problems far more effectively in today's rapidly changing environment. We offer education, organizational assessments, bespoke action plan development and implementation. www.organizationalwellbeingsolutions.com

PRESENTER

Dr. Paul F. DeChant, MD, MBA, FAAFP Principal and Co-Founder, Organizational Wellbeing Solutions, LLC Dr. Paul DeChant is a thought leader on preventing burnout by fixing the workplace drivers of burnout, not simply helping workers become more resilient. Paul advises C-level healthcare executives on managing critical problems such as financial and staffing challenges by transforming management systems and cultures to reduce the root causes of clinician burnout. Done properly, client organizations improve KPI performance while reducing team member burnout. Following 25 years practicing family medicine, Dr. DeChant became CEO of the Sutter Gould Medical Foundation, where he led a transformation based on the theme of “Returning Joy to Patient Care.” After four years the group achieved recognition as the highest performing among 170 medical groups across the State of California two years in a row, while improving physician satisfaction from the 45th to 87th percentile on AMGA’s Provider Satisfaction Survey. He received his MD from the Oregon Health Sciences University and his MBA from the University of Colorado-Denver. Co-author of the book, “Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine”, Paul speaks internationally, and blogs regularly at www.pauldechantmd.com

AGENDA

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

8:55 a.m. Check in

9 a.m.      Introduction

9:05 a.m. Presenter presentation

9:50 a.m. Q&A

10 a.m     Webinar concludes

PARTICIPANT BENEFITS
  • A deep understanding of burnout’s dimensions and drivers providing an ability to apply these in any organization
  • A model for managing and preventing burnout that healthcare leaders and clinicians can apply to their daily work
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
  • Healthcare leaders
  • Clinicians
  • Lean educators
  • Coaches
  • Practitioners
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