Becker's Hospital Review

45 WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP Dr. Amy Loeb becomes 1st woman to helm Northwell Health hospital By Kelly Gooch A my Loeb, EdD, RN, was named executive director of Northwell Health's Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead, N.Y., the health system said Feb. 10. Dr. Loeb most recently served as deputy executive director of the medical center. She is the first woman to hold the top position at Peconic Bay, according to RiverheadLOCAL. Dr. Loeb joined New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell 16 years ago as a registered nurse at Huntington (N.Y.) Hospi- tal and became chief nursing officer of Peconic Bay in 2015. She served as deputy executive director for two years be- fore her promotion to executive director took effect Feb. 1. She succeeds Peconic Bay President and CEO Andrew Mitchell, who has transitioned to a new role as president of the medical center's foundation. n 2.5 million women left the US workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic By Kelly Gooch T he COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected women in the U.S. workforce, with 2.5 million wom- en leaving the job market since the beginning of the public health crisis, compared to 1.8 million men, accord- ing to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data published Feb. 5. The finding comes after the jobs report from the bureau showed the U.S. added 49,000 jobs in January, although the gain is still below the 245,000 jobs added in Novem- ber. The unemployment rate fell to 6.3 percent in January, compared to 6.7 percent in December. While the U.S. saw job gains and a lower unemployment rate in January, only about half of the 12.1 million wom- en's jobs lost between February and April had returned as of September, according to an analysis by the National Women's Law Center. A Feb. 18 report in The New York Times cited demands of child care, as well as layoffs and furloughs during the pan- demic, as contributing factors for many women leaving the job market. Vice President Kamala Harris has called the number of women who have left the nation's workforce a "national emergency" that must be addressed, according to the re- port. n Female physicians experience burnout at higher rate: 5 notes on burnout in 2020 By Mackenzie Bean F orty-two percent of physicians reported feeling burned out last year, according to Medscape's "2021 Physician Burnout Report" published Jan. 25. For the report, Medscape surveyed 12,339 physicians in more than 29 specialties from Aug. 30 to Nov. 5, 2020. Five report findings: 1. Sixty-nine percent of physicians said they were some- what or very happy in 2020 before the pandemic started. This figure fell to 49 percent during the pandemic. 2. While female physicians have historically reported high- er rates of burnout than their male peers, this gap grew in 2020. Fifty-one percent of women said they were burned out, compared to 36 percent of men. 3. Critical care physicians had the highest rates of burnout among all specialties, at 51 percent. In 2019, urologists re- ported the highest burnout rates. 4. Seventy-nine percent of physicians said their burnout began before the COVID-19 pandemic. 5. The three most common contributing factors to burnout that physicians cited were too many bureaucratic tasks (58 percent), spending too many hours at work (37 percent) and lack of respect from leaders or colleagues (37 percent). n LifePoint Health names chief diversity and patient experience officer By Kelly Gooch V initia Mathews, PhD, was tapped as senior vice pres- ident and chief diversity and patient experience of- ficer for Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Health. Dr. Mathews will oversee the development and implemen- tation of the organization's diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, as well as continue to lead patient experience programs, the company said in a Feb. 3 news release. Most recently, she was vice president of clinical excellence and experience for LifePoint. She also previously served as enterprise patient experience program director for Port- land, Ore.-based Legacy Health. Dr. Mathews earned her MBA in healthcare administration and her PhD in strategic management from Texas Tech University's Rawls College of Business in Lubbock. n

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