Journal of Healthcare Management articles from January 2006

Journal of Healthcare Management archives from January 2006

Editorial.(health care industry management)(Editorial)
January 1, 2006... Hospital viability is an area of critical concern to leaders, managers, and researchers throughout the world. This issue illustrates the current thinking and strategies regarding this topic. Teri Fontenot's financial expertise facilitated...

Interview with Teri G. Fontenot, CHE, president and chief executive officer, Woman's Hospital.(Interview)
January 1, 2006... Since 1996, Teri Fontenot, CHE, has served as president and chief executive officer of Woman's Hospital, a nonprofit women's and infants' hospital in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the largest independently owned women's hospital in the country....

Pay for performance: finding common ground.(real quality improvement programs)
January 1, 2006... "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done"--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A recent study of the effect of pay-for-performance (P4P) programs on real quality improvement provides...

Leadership competencies: an introduction.(COMPETENCIES)(Column)
January 1, 2006... Our goal with this column is to provide a useful, practical introduction to competency modeling, a practice that is already a mainstay in many health professions and that is likely to find expanded use within health administration in the coming...

Opportunities for improving patient care through lateral integration: the clinical nurse leader.(PERSPECTIVE)
January 1, 2006... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Today, healthcare organizations are faced with the growing realization that functional and professional silos within the organization are counter to the provision of efficient and effective patient care and are fertile...

Changes in service availability in California hospitals, 1995 to 2002.(financial challenges of hospitals)
January 1, 2006... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Hospitals face serious financial challenges in the current healthcare marketplace. In response to these challenges, they may alter their service offerings, eliminating services that are perceived as money-losing or adding...

Hospital information technology and positive financial performance: a different approach to finding an ROI.
January 1, 2006... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This empirical study examined the relationship between information technology (IT) utilization and hospital financial performance. Using primary and secondary data, we specified and tested a series of regression models...

Board self-evaluation process.(FELLOW PROJECT)
January 1, 2006... ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION The organization in this case, A Health System (AIDS), owns three acute care hospitals with a combined capacity of 596 acute beds. It has another 350 long-term care beds in three convalescent hospitals. AHS has...