Journal of Healthcare Management articles from January 2001

Journal of Healthcare Management archives from January 2001

Better Information for the Board.(health care management trends)(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2001... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Healthcare managers are making quicker, riskier decisions in an increasingly competitive and regulated environment. Questions have been raised regarding the accountability and performance of boards of these organizations,...

Developing an Air Ambulance Service for a Remote Area of West Texas.
January 1, 2001... ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION The tertiary hospital referred to in this report is part of a not-for-profit health system comprising the hospitals, a 50lA not-for-profit physician clinic, health plan, and regional clinics. The sole member of...

Spirituality and Healthcare Organizations.(health care industry)
January 1, 2001... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In recent years, the place of spirituality in organizations has become increasingly discussed and advocated. On a personal level, this may involve achieving personal fulfillment or spiritual growth in the workplace. In...

EDITORIAL.(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... While management is always a challenge, healthcare executives face uniquely complex requirements. Their mission requires a diverse set of personal competencies in arenas such as organizational development, finance, human relations, and...

Interview with John R. Griffith, FACHE Author of The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization.(Interview)
January 1, 2001... John R. Griffith is the Andrew Pattullo Collegiate Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, The University of Michigan. A graduate of John Hopkins University and the University of Chicago, he was director...

Career Performance: How Are We Doing?(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... Among the most important issues for a successful and effective healthcare system in the future is a sufficient pool of management talent and leadership. I appreciate the opportunity provided by AUPHA to share a practitioner's perspective on...

Dueling Forces: I-Med vs. Fed-Med.(Individualized medicine versus Federalized medicine)
January 1, 2001... If you do not control your own destiny, someone will control it for you. --Winston Churchill Two very divergent forces are pulling American healthcare away from its long-traveled, but now troubled, path. We could label these I-Med and...

Town vs. Gown: Managing a Managed Care Crisis.(health care industry)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION Forty percent of University Hospital's admissions come from private physicians surrounding the hospital. After being denied access to contracts controlled by University Hospital's full-time faculty, the private community...

CEO Performance Appraisal: Review and Recommendations.(management technique)(Tutorial)
January 1, 2001... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CEO performance appraisal (PA) is very valuable to an organization, but the chances of obtaining a PA of high quality decrease as executive responsibility increases. The realities of CEO PA are that it: (1) is inevitable;...