Becker's Hospital Review

41 FINANCE CMO / CARE DELIVERY Detroit hospital, university to lose neurosurgery training accreditation By Ayla Ellison T he Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Ed- ucation withdrew accreditation in November for Detroit Medical Center's neurosurgery training program with Wayne State University, according to The Detroit News. The accreditation is slated to officially end in June 2020. The ACGME withdrew accreditation following a site vis- it in September. Neither the ACGME nor the hospital would comment on why the program was losing its ac- creditation or how it could restore its credentials. "(A)t this point, we have yet to receive detailed infor- mation outlining the reasons for the decision," a DMC spokesperson told The Detroit News. Wayne State University School of Medicine Dean Jack Sobel, MD, told The Detroit News in November that the program will appeal. The relationship between Wayne State and the hospital has deteriorated in recent years, but Dr. Sorbel said that was not the direct cause of the accreditation loss. "The failure of the residency is a failure of one or two teaching individuals. It's not a conflict between DMC and Wayne State," he told The Detroit News. n Florida medical school loses 40% of student training sites after partnering with HCA By Emily Rappleye T hird-year medical students at Orlando-based Univer- sity of Central Florida can no longer complete clerk- ships at the region's two largest health systems, ac- cording to the Orlando Sentinel. Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth and Orlando Health closed their doors to UCF when it chose HCA Health- care as its partner for a new teaching hospital, which is slat- ed to open in 2020. AdventHealth and Orlando Health are longtime partners of the university, and their support helped UCF earn approval to open a medical school more than 10 years ago, according to the report. The split is a major loss for UCF — the two health systems hosted 40 percent of its clerkships, and student feedback on HCA sites has not been overwhelmingly positive, according to the report. For example, one student's end-of-year eval- uation said, "HCA facilities are not good places to train. We are treated very poorly at HCA sites and there is very little going on," according to the report. The HCA sites in the area are community hospitals, which tend to have lower patient volumes and less complex cases. Orlando Health and AdventHealth are continuing to part- ner with UCF in other ways, including offering training for nursing students. n Why more men are switching careers to nursing By Gabrielle Masson M ore nursing schools are actively recruiting men, who, in turn, are looking to nursing for econom- ic stability and job security, according to the Daily Herald. In 2015, men accounted for 13 percent of all reg- istered nurses in the U.S., a significant increase from 2 percent in 1960, according to a Wash- ington Center for Equitable Growth paper. "Baby boomers are retiring, and there is a deep nursing shortage projected for the next 10 to 15 years," Jason Mott, PhD, RN, national secretary for the American Association for Men in Nurs- ing, told the Daily Herald. "Because of the large aging population, the profession has started to look at ways to get men involved in nursing." Addison, Ill.-based Chamberlain University exemplifies this trend. More than 12 percent of the university's nursing students are male, Jan Snow, PhD, RN, dean of Chamberlain Col- lege of Nursing's campus in Addison, Ill., told the Daily Herald. In 2019, the school launched a nursing bachelor's degree program available on evenings and weekends to accommodate men who are transitioning to nursing from a dif- ferent career. Many men at the nursing school come from jobs as paramedics and firefighters, according to Dr. Snow. e increase in male nurses relates to career fulfillment and economic stability, as well, Dr. Mott said. e median salary for nurs- es is about $70,000 and is expected to rise, the Daily Herald reported. "You're seeing some of the traditionally male-dominated professions — plumbers and electricians — struggling now," Dr. Mott said. "ere are a lot of guys looking for more job stability. Nursing offers that stability." n

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