Journal of Healthcare Management articles from July 2003

Journal of Healthcare Management archives from July 2003

Editorial.
July 1, 2003... The challenges and opportunities in health administration practice and education, although addressed specifically by Dr. Larry Prybil in Perspective, are illustrated in all of the essays and articles in this issue. Several of the authors note...

Interview with Phil Robinson, FACHE, CEO, JFK Medical Center, Palm Beach County, Florida. (Interview).(Interview)
July 1, 2003... Phillip D. Robinson, FACHE, is CEO of JFK Medical Center, a 424-bed acute care medical center owned by HCA. Under Mr. Robinson's direction, JFK has twice been named by Solucient as one of the top-100 hospitals in the United States. Working...

Diagnosing risk: strategies for preventing unexpected job loss. (Careers).(Illustration)
July 1, 2003... In our executive-transition coaching practice, we find that many executives are unprepared when their career plan is interrupted unexpectedly. But is being surprised by job loss reasonable in today's ever-changing work-world realities?...

The art of competing against yourself: are you a cannibal? (Strategic Marketing).(research into how latecomers to an industry end up dominating a market)
July 1, 2003... According to the American Heritage Dictionary (2000), cannibalism is the act of depriving something of its vital elements. When executives reduce a critical part of the work environment or product, such as personnel, equipment, or funding, and...

Challenges and opportunities facing health administration practice and education. (Perspective).
July 1, 2003... This article focuses on three interrelated themes. First, I address five major challenges that leaders in the practice community are facing today. These challenges have a direct relevance for those of us in the academic community. Second, I...

Hill-Rom Essay Competition.
July 1, 2003... 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...

Healthcare reform through rationing. (Hill-Rom Undergraduate).
July 1, 2003... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Currently, the U.S. government cannot afford to pay for or ensure access to healthcare without limitations for all its citizens, as healthcare has become so expensive. Therefore, implementation of a rationing program is...

Robot-assisted surgery: the future is here. (Hill-Rom Graduate).
July 1, 2003... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY According to L. Wiley Nifong, director of robotic surgery at East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine, "Nationally, only one-fourth of the 15 million surgeries performed each year are done with small incisions...

A model for improving the quality and timeliness of compensation and pension examinations in VA facilities.
July 1, 2003... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In response to external and internal customer dissatisfaction and in anticipation of markedly higher volumes of examination requests, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) produced an eight-month facilitated...

Practitioner application.(a study of the diffusion of process knowledge)
July 1, 2003... This article provides an excellent example of a unique study of the diffusion of process knowledge involving two administrations of the Department of Veterans Affairs: the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and the Veterans Benefits...

Adapting manufacturing-based Six Sigma methodology to the service environment of a radiology film library. (Fellow Project).
July 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION This thesis describes the application of Six Sigma methodology to our film library improvement project. A radiology film library performs service activities almost exclusively; thus, we hypothesized that manufacturing-based...