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Negotiating With Administration—Or How to Get Paid for Doing Hospital Epidemiology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

H. Gunner Deery II*
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious Diseases, Burns Clinic Medical Center, PC, Northern Michigan Hospital, Petoskey, Michigan

Abstract

Many hospital administrators acknowledge the value of a hospital epidemiologist. However, many hospital epidemiologists are not being paid for their work. To eliminate this inequity, hospital epidemiologists must negotiate contractual relationships successfully with their hospitals or healthcare systems. This article reviews an approach to rectifying this problem that is based on practical experience.

Type
Practical Healthcare Epidemiology
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1997

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