When deteriorating margins jeopardize your hospital's or health system's financial health, take your organization off the critical list with Superior Productivity in Health Care Organizations: How to Get It, How to Keep It. Loaded with practical, enduring solutions, this book will help hospital and health system management reclaim lost productivity in a surprisingly short time and at low cost. Based on the author's direct experience with over 50 hospitals, the text takes you step by step through the process from analysis to ...
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When deteriorating margins jeopardize your hospital's or health system's financial health, take your organization off the critical list with Superior Productivity in Health Care Organizations: How to Get It, How to Keep It. Loaded with practical, enduring solutions, this book will help hospital and health system management reclaim lost productivity in a surprisingly short time and at low cost. Based on the author's direct experience with over 50 hospitals, the text takes you step by step through the process from analysis to implementation of productivity standards and beyond. Learn to: Identify and avoid the pitfalls that make most popular productivity strategies go awry Reduce expenses to match the organization's revenues Develop and implement realistic and understandable labor standards Relate productivity to strategic goals Resolve underlying management problems and implement core productivity concepts Determine the proper role for department managers in increasing productivity Determine the optimal time to use benchmarking Avoid falling back on stopgap measures (e.g., layoffs) Institute effective, customized monitoring systems and protocols Develop suitable incentives and consequences for performance Formulate new procedures to capture and build on what has been accomplished Invigorate the productivity of any organization with entrepreneurship and innovation Overcome entrenched politics that put off needed changes Dozens of incisive illustrations, tables, flowcharts, and case studies illuminate the text's core concepts of measurement, accountability, simplicity, and fairness. Get the only book that tackles head on the productivity and viability issues on the minds of hospital administrators, physicians, corporate health system staff, financial executives, practice management administrators, clinical and technical mgrs, business planning and financial analysts, marketing specialists, health care consultants, and undergraduate and graduate students in health administration.
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