Journal of Healthcare Management articles from July 1999

Journal of Healthcare Management archives from July 1999

Interview with James Rogers, President and CEO, Volunteers of America National Services.(Interview)
July 1, 1999... Volunteers of America, Inc. is one of the nation's largest and most comprehensive charitable nonprofit human service organizations. From rural America to inner-city neighborhoods, Volunteers of America engages its professional staff and its...

Rural Managed Care.(adapting managed care services to health care needs and conditions in rural areas of U.S.)
July 1, 1999... Perhaps managed care can and should remain a phenomenon primarily limited to the urban environment. Critical requirements for managing care include a sufficient supply of primary care providers, reasonable access to care, and adequate numbers...

Painful Medicine: Managed Care and the Fate of America's Major Teaching Hospitals.
July 1, 1999... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Healthcare spending in the United States has risen steadily throughout the post-World War II period as the American healthcare system has been transformed from cottage industry to big business. The increasing rate of...

Communication Patterns and Group Composition: Implications for Patient-Centered Care Team Effectiveness.(improving patient care by improving communication among care team members)
July 1, 1999... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY To assess how diversity affects team communication and to identify strategies to improve communication and patient care, focus groups of care production team members were held in two case study hospitals that have...

Mentoring in Health Administration: The Critical Link in Executive Development.
July 1, 1999... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Career development in the next century will be predicated on the ability to forge hierarchical as well as lateral relationships within diverse organizational environments. Mentoring relationships may provide the critical...

HILL-ROM ESSAY COMPETITION.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... The Hill-Rom Management Essay Competition in Healthcare Administration was established in 1989 in an effort to enable ACHE to better fulfill its mission of supporting professional education for healthcare executives. The competition is open to...

Hospital Customer Service in a Changing Healthcare World: Does It Matter?
July 1, 1999... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The healthcare industry is undergoing a rapid transformation to meet the ever-increasing needs and demands of the patient population. Employers and health plans such as HMOs are demanding better service and higher quality...

Economic Credentialing: The Propriety of Managing Physician Costs Through Privileging.
July 1, 1999... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Hospital executives face the unique task of managing the costs of an institution in which they have no direct managerial authority over the primary cost drivers, namely, the physicians who practice in the hospital....

Influential Leadership and Change Environment: The Role Leaders Play in the Growth and Development of the People They Lead.
July 1, 1999... Leaders play a defining and often pivotal role in shaping the future and career paths of the people they lead--just as they play an influential role in shaping the future of the organizations they lead and the communities they serve. In fact,...

Cooperative Ventures in a Competitive Environment: The Influence of Regulation on Management Decisions.
July 1, 1999... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Two generalized game theory models are developed to explain observed management decisions between two large hospitals in Shelby County Tennessee within the regulatory context of competition for an advanced radiological...