Journal of Healthcare Management articles from September 2005

Journal of Healthcare Management archives from September 2005

Editorial.(Editorial)
September 1, 2005... This issue explores the aspects of healthcare quality and service that influence patients, providers, and communities. In the interview, Dianne Mandernach, Minnesota's Commissioner of Health, reveals her unique perspective on health and...

Interview with Dianne Mandernach, FACHE, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, Minnesota.(Interview)
September 1, 2005... As the governor-appointed commissioner of Minnesota's Department of Health, Dianne Mandernach, FACHE, is responsible for protecting, maintaining, and improving the health of all Minnesotans. With approximately 1,300 employees, the department...

Philanthropy: the last frontier for capital funding.(FUNDING)
September 1, 2005... A series of reports by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (2004) entitled Financing the Future II summarized two critical research findings: * The hospital industry's access to capital is tightening. The number of hospitals...

Persuasion: what to say, how to be.(COMMUNICATION)
September 1, 2005... Persuasion is communication with a purpose--to cause a person or group to adopt as their own a product, person, idea, entity, or point of view that the person would otherwise not support. To put it more simply, persuasion is going beyond...

Opportunities for administrators to promote disease management.
September 1, 2005... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Studies of disease management (DM) have shown that patients who participate in such programs achieve better health status and make fewer emergency room visits. Private and government payers have recently increased their...

Managing primary care using patient satisfaction measures.
September 1, 2005... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Our study (1) aimed to identify which attributes of a primary healthcare experience have the most impact on patient satisfaction as well as which aspects of each attribute are most significant in patients' response to the...

Emergency department overcrowding: the impact of resource scarcity on physician job satisfaction.
September 1, 2005... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Emergency departments in most developed countries have been experiencing significant overcrowding under a regime of severe resource constraints. Physicians in emergency departments increasingly find themselves toiling in...

Seeding community partnerships in providing medical care that lowers cost of care.(FELLOW PROJECT)
September 1, 2005... ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION System X is an integrated delivery system with a 530-bed tertiary care teaching and research hospital, which includes the region's only Level I trauma center and operates a neonatal facility. System X has a lease...

2004 fellowship theses.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2005... The following theses have been approved as fulfilling the Fellow Project requirement of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Nancy Borkowski, D.B.A., CPA, FACHE An Examination of Physicians' Participation and Levels of Acceptance...