Journal of Healthcare Management articles from March 2004

Journal of Healthcare Management archives from March 2004

Editorial.(Editorial)
March 1, 2004... The research articles presented in this issue address important concerns for healthcare managers and illustrate three different approaches to exploring complex behaviors of institutions and the individuals within. Peter C. Olden and Steven...

Interview with Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., FACHE, University of California-Berkeley.(Interview)(Interview)
March 1, 2004... Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., FACHE, is dean and Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management at the School of Public Health, and professor of organization behavior at Haas School of Business, University of...

Co-opetition: an alternative to competition.(Physician-Executive Relations)(Health care industry)
March 1, 2004... Like dogs and cats, physicians and executives differ in their social and personal characteristics. Mistrust and misunderstanding typically cloud their relationship. In 1999, The Advisory Board conducted a research with hospital chief executive...

Replace or renovate?(hospital replacement facilities)
March 1, 2004... Over the past several years, there has been increased interest in replacing rather than renovating aging healthcare facilities. According to Modern Healthcare's 2003 Annual Construction and Design Survey, 82 new and replacement acute care...

Health promotion and disease prevention by small rural hospitals: reasons, obstacles, and enablers.
March 1, 2004... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Rural health stakeholders expect small rural hospitals to help improve health status in their communities. Those hospitals may try to offer health promotion and disease prevention (HPDP) services, but they confront big...

Who should lead a healthcare organization: MDs or MBAs?
March 1, 2004... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Debates often arise about who is best suited to manage a healthcare organization. Therefore, we argue that an examination of the ability of healthcare organizations' chief executive officers (CEOs) to make strategic...

Effects of Medicare BBA spending reductions on the profitability of general acute care hospitals.(Balanced Budget Act of 1997)
March 1, 2004... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 was intended to reduce spending by about $115 billion from the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund over a five-year period. Several studies were funded by the hospital industry that...

Developing employee participation in the patient-satisfaction process.(Fellow Project)
March 1, 2004... ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION The institution is a freestanding, private, not-for-profit pediatric hospital founded in 1954. The 456-bed teaching hospital serves as the parent organization for an integrated delivery system that consists of a...