Journal of Healthcare Management articles from September 2004

Journal of Healthcare Management archives from September 2004

Editorial.
September 1, 2004... This issue addresses many dimensions of personal and institutional leadership. It also provides the reader with validated methods and tools for assessing a manager's job satisfaction, evaluating and developing managers, determining community...

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2004... The cover of the July/August 2004 issue included typographical errors. The Fellow Project, "A Nonfinancial Approach to Financial Improvement of Medical Groups Through Advanced Access," was written solely by lag S. Gill, FACHE. This article did...

Interview with Kevin Lofton, FACHE, president and chief executive officer, Catholic Health Initiatives, Denver, Colorado.(Interview)(Fellow American College of Healthcare Executives)(Interview)
September 1, 2004... Kevin Lofton, FACHE, heads Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), a national healthcare system that sponsors 68 hospitals, 44 long-term-care facilities, assisted and independent living and residential facilities, and 5 community health services...

Managing physician resistance to change.(Physician-Executive Relations)
September 1, 2004... The hardest task for any leader is to assess physicians' readiness for organizational change. While readiness is critical, however, physicians' willingness to change is often the lynchpin in any successful transformation. How many...

Five critical strategies for achieving operational efficiency.(Replacement Facilities)
September 1, 2004... In a recent report that summarizes the reasons that hospitals undertake construction projects, "operational efficiency and patient flow" are cited as the most common objectives (Carpenter 2004). Intuitively, improvements in operating efficiency...

Community health orientation, community-based quality improvement, and health promotion services in hospitals.
September 1, 2004... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The objective of the study presented in this article was to examine the relationship between hospital community orientation and the provision of health promotion services. The study used data from the 2000 American...

Development and validation of a 360-degree-feedback instrument for healthcare administrators.
September 1, 2004... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Multisource or 360-degree feedback has become a widely used component of leadership development in many organizations, and a growing body of research supports its use for this purpose. Unfortunately, most commercially...

Improving resource efficiency through management science.(redesign project)
September 1, 2004... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Optimal management of resources is a very complex and difficult task for healthcare systems. Nevertheless, healthcare providers can employ data-driven methodologies and management science tools, coupled with managerial...

Nursing home administrators' level of job satisfaction.
September 1, 2004... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Job satisfaction has been shown to have a direct relationship to the quality of work. Are nursing home administrators satisfied with their work? How do they compare with their counterparts in other industries? The results...