Working As an Effective Leader Within The Healthcare Industry
Within the healthcare sector, you might consider the term ‘leadership’ as an alternative for ‘management.’ But in reality, leadership is much more than just management. There are critical roles that must be played, which include planning, organising, controlling, budgeting, analysing, and implementing. It establishes a means of utilising and achieving organisational goals in an efficient manner.
Consequently, effective leadership serves as an important element for implementing reforms and shaping the corporate culture in the healthcare industry. And the growing interest within the field further depicts the necessity of direction and guidance in healthcare management.
Hence, in order to ensure the success of a medical institution is to have effective communication with stakeholders, employees, and managers. It does not matter how stern or professional a company’s heads are – what really counts is the ability to motivate and inspire work forces to go all out in their productive capabilities and bring innovative ideas to the table.
The best way you can learn to be an effective leader in the medical industry is if you look at all the current leaders in the field who are making a massive difference through their work and implementing positive change around them. In this case, a prime example would be none other than Bayo Curry-Winchell – a revered physician, medical contributor, public speaker, and social influencer who serves as the founder of Beyond Clinical Walls. She is also known for being the President of the Washoe County Medical Society and also co-chairs the Nevada State Medical Association Equity and Diversity Committee.
Over the years of her professional career, Curry-Winchell has contributed her professional work in a number of ways. Some of these include being the Medical Director of Health Equity and Community Engagement at Carbon Health, Saint Mary’s Urgent Care and Washoe County Sexual Assault Response team.
She also ensures that she can educate others when it comes to medical issues. Curry-Winchell has already written numerous articles on health topics and concerns. She has worked as a contributor writer for Healthline, Pop Sugar, Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas Review-Journal, and many more. She is also a monthly contributor to the Nevada Independent. Additionally, being the founder of Beyond Clinical Walls, Curry-Winchell has been able to offer a regular series that works to provide health information in snippets to help improve the health literacy and reduce health inequities.
Curry-Winchell has also been involved in volunteer work; she worked as the Assisstant Medical Examiner with the Washoe County CARES program, where she focuses on examination of victims of child abuse. She is also the President, Board member and appointed Public Relations Chair for the Washoe County Medical Society.
Moreover, she has been featured as a medical contributor who is constantly seen talking about trending health topics on many national news channels, such as, BBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Newsy, Scripps, Cheddar, and various others. She has even had the chance to appear on several platforms, like TEDx, as a public speaker where she discussed the gaps in healthcare, making people more aware of the racially-based algorithms and the impact they can have on the outcomes of health for Black patients.