Meet Paul DeChant, MD, MBA

SPEAKER | EXECUTIVE COACH | AUTHOR | PROFESSOR

Dr. Paul DeChant, MD, MBA is uniquely positioned to help you turn around your underperforming team. 

He is an experienced executive, leadership coach, and expert on burnout with a proven approach to significantly improve performance for teams of any size, whether as small as 2-3 members, or a large organization with 20-30,000 employees.  

Dr. DeChant can help your organization identify and reduce the root causes of underperformance that are endemic in so many organizations. 

A Comprehensive Approach that Works

Dr. DeChant was drawn to Family Medicine because of its focus on both treatment and prevention. He is drawn to addressing the root causes of underperformance, because doing so the right way, with deep respect for people, not only to improves your people's experience, it is key to growing your business. 

Dr. DeChant is also available to consult on healthcare leadership issues, including:

  • Medical Group Leadership Coaching
  • Strategy Deployment
  • Medical Group Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Physician Engagement
  • EHR Optimization
  • Physician Compensation Plans

Dr. DeChant's first-hand experience as a physician executive includes:

  •  A 25-year career practicing Family Medicine
  • Progressive management roles in Sutter Health, Geisinger, and private practice
  • FIve years as Sutter Gould Medical Foundation CEO, a 300-Physician Medical Group, resulting in:
    • Improved provider satisfaction, from the 45th percentile to the 87th
    • Recognition by Consumer Reports as the top performer among 170 California medical groups two years in a row
  • Advising senior executives of numerous health systems to reduce burnout and improve performance
  • Co-authoring the Book, “Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to Patient Care”

Our Approach

The 5-Step Process

Designed to reduce the drivers of burnout and return joy to patient care, The 5-Step Process can help your organization thrive while improving your bottom line.

 

Resolving issues of burnout and the bottom line requires a coordinated systems approach. Dr. DeChant brings more than 30 years of combined patient care and operational leadership. Additionally, his many years of executive coaching at health systems around the country and writing Preventing Physician Burnout, has provided him the specific insight needed to develop and execute this proven 5-Step Process. 

Diagnostic Evaluation

Burnout Transformation Planning

Enhance Clinician Wellness

Change Corporate Culture

Improve Practice Efficiency

"After a short time with Dr. DeChant, it was easy to see where our systems had eroded over time. We need our physicians working at peak performance. The 5-Step Process got us there."

Let's Return Joy to Your Workplace

With 30 years experience as a family physician and physician executive, I've developed a passion for bringing joy back to struggling workplaces and an approach that works in all industries. 

I've seen firsthand the burnout of overworked people and their leaders. It doesn't have to be this way. We all have the potential to heal our workplaces, when we recognize and take action to mitigate the drivers of burnout. 

As CEO of a 300-physician medical group, I led a management transformation that improved care experiences for everyone, with Consumer Reports rating us the best among 170 medical groups across the State of California 2 years in a row.

Are you ready to change your organization, to create a healthy workplace where your people and your business thrive?

If you are, I'd love to help you.  

Paul DeChant, MD, MBA

Want to learn more?

Book a Call Now to Explore How Lean Transformation Can Revitalize Your Healthcare Organization and Overcome Burnout.

 

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