About Leslie Flores

Leslie Flores, MHA, SFHM is a founding partner at Nelson Flores Hospital Medicine Consultants, a consulting practice that has specialized in helping clients enhance the effectiveness and value of hospital medicine programs as well as those in other hospital-focused practice specialties since 2004. Ms. Flores began her career as a hospital executive, after receiving a BS degree in biological sciences at the University of California at Irvine and a Master’s in healthcare administration from the University of Minnesota. In addition to her leadership experience in hospital operations, business development, managed care and physician relations, she has provided consulting, training and leadership coaching services for hospitals, physician groups, and other healthcare organizations. Ms. Flores is an active speaker and writer on hospitalist practice management topics and serves on SHM’s Practice Analysis and Annual Meeting Committees. She serves as an informal advisor to SHM on practice management-related issues and helps to coordinate SHM’s bi-annual State of Hospital Medicine Survey.
Victorious Endurance: To Pass the Breaking Point and Not Break
December 11, 2020 |  0
I’ve been thinking a lot about endurance recently. For the third time, COVID-19 is surging in the U.S., and this time, it’s not localized to New York or the Sun Belt – it’s everywhere. Healthcare workers exhausted from the first and second waves – and those in smaller Midwestern communities who are just now experiencing […]
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Exactly Why Is It That We Need More Black Hospitalists and HMG Leaders?
October 9, 2020 |  2
Following my last post on increasing racial diversity in hospital medicine’s leadership ranks, I had an interesting back-and-forth with my friend, colleague, and co-blogger, Brad Flansbaum. While he offered me kudos for my post, he posed a piercing and insightful challenge to me: “Tell me more about why you think proportionality is important.” Wow. Gotta […]
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Increasing Racial Diversity in Hospital Medicine’s Leadership Ranks
August 28, 2020 |  6
Have you ever done something where you’re not quite sure why you did it at the time, but later on you realize it was part of some larger cosmic purpose, and you go, “Ahhh, now I understand… that’s why!”? Call it a fortuitous coincidence. Or a subconscious act of anticipation. Maybe a little push from […]
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Ask. Learn. Do: Small Steps We Can All Take Toward Racial Justice
July 29, 2020 |  8
I’m embarrassed to say I don’t really know many Black people. Where I live, only about two percent of the population is African American. I have no close friends who are Black; no one I can ask about race and the current unrest in our society. But I want to learn. So, I reached out […]
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Reflections of a Middle-Aged WASP
June 10, 2020 |  9
Don’t let my last name fool you. I am a middle-aged WASP, a privileged white woman. I have never thought of myself as particularly privileged. I grew up a U.S. military brat in a distinctly middle-class family. I’m not unusually smart, or wealthy, or talented, or beautiful. But it has never occurred to me to […]
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The World’s Future Heroes
March 25, 2020 |  0
Last Thursday evening, there was a fascinating article from the magazine Politico in my Apple newsfeed. (No, don’t spend any energy trying to interpret what that says about my politics, because I’m not writing about anything remotely political.) “Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How.” points out that we are in a period reminiscent […]
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