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This reader is published as a companion to the publisher's casebook . It contains 24 selected articles from various journals and books; 14 are new or updated, and 10 are retained from the previous edition. Arrangement is in sections (introduced with the editors' commentary) on the role of the manager, control, organizational design, professional integration, adaptation, and accountability. Among the new topics addressed: raising quality and productivity, managing rural healthcare, controlling medical errors, managing the transition to HMO's, and improving hospital mortality. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781567930658
  • Publisher: Health Administration Press
  • Publication date: 11/28/1997
  • Edition description: AMERICAN COLLEGE OF HEALTHCARE EXEC
  • Edition number: 6
  • Product dimensions: 65.00 (w) x 95.00 (h) x 1.25 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction 1
1 The Work of Effective CEOs in Four Large Health Organizations 30
2 Industry Distinctiveness: Implications for Strategic Management in Health Care Organizations 51
3 American College of Healthcare Executives Code of Ethics 72
4 Viewing the Health Care Manager 84
5 The Administration of Health Services in the Twenty-First Century 93
6 Controlling Hospital Organizations 121
7 Improving Hospital Board Effectiveness: An Update 129
8 Simplified Manual Systems for Clinical Management: The Internal Management Report 154
9 Control Aspects of Financial Variance Analysis 171
10 The Medical Management Analysis System: A Professional Liability Warning Mechanism 189
11 The Quest for Quality and Productivity in Health Services 202
12 Quality Connection Storyboards: Beth Israel Hospital (Boston) and Medical Centers of Vermont 233
13 Principles of the Well-Managed Community Hospital 257
14 Vertical Integration and Diversification of Acute Care Hospitals: Conceptual Definitions 270
15 Decentralized Management in a Teaching Hospital 282
16 Technical and Structural Support Systems and Nurse Utilization: Systems Model 292
17 Justice as a Prelude to Teamwork in Medical Centers 315
18 Physician Leadership in Hospital Strategic Decision Making 327
19 Work Satisfaction among Hospital Nurses 343
20 Five Roadblocks to Effective Partnerships in a Competitive Health Care Environment 361
21 Implementing Change within the Academic Medical Center 392
22 Strategy Making in Health Care Organizations: A Framework and Agenda for Research 402
23 Adapting to the Age of Competition: A Paradigm Shift for Voluntary Hospitals 430
24 The Rural Wisconsin Hospital Cooperative: An Evolving Systems Model Based on Traditional Community Values 440
25 The Planetree Model Hospital Project: An Example of the Patient as Partner 465
26 A Community Perspective on Hospital Ownership 476
27 Improving the Quality of Work Life in Hospitals: A Case Study 488
28 The Dilemma between Competition and Community Service 504
Annotated Bibliography 515
Index 527
About the Editors 537
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