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Medical Staff Alignment

Jul 01, 2008; Mages, Marilyn E ... Understanding the differences in care can help healthcare executives develop a framework to help physicians and other caregivers make diagnostic and treatment decisions. In our first feature, "Building Partnerships: Addressing Overuse, Underuse and Misuse of Care," David Wennberg, MD, Doug ...

The Ethics of Supplier Relations

Jul 01, 2008; Bowen, Deborah J ... ACHE's Ethical Policy Statements highlight this, other pressing ethical issues. The increasing complexity of ethical challenges in the world-to which the healthcare field is not immunehas heightened the need for vigilance in ethical behavior now more than ever. That is why ACHE continues ...

BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS: Addressing overuse, underuse and misuse of care

Jul 01, 2008; Wennberg, David; Berkson, Doug; Rider, Betty ... Research from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice in Lebanon, N.H., has consistently found that geography plays a significant role in determining the quality, quantity and cost of healthcare. The 2008 edition of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care notes that hospitals ...

Innovations in Medical Staff Planning: Setting the Stage for the Future

Jul 01, 2008; Cameron, Donna J ... In today's healthcare environment, hospitals and physicians face the same challenges-decreasing reimbursements, increasing regulatory requirements and greater competition-and the two groups are finding that by forming integrated, strategic relationships with each other they can better achieve ...

RISING From the Ashes: Fallujah's Healthcare at Center of Transformation

Jul 01, 2008; Buell, John M ... Dozens of patients eagerly wait in the morning air for the doors to the new healthcare clinic to open. Mothers and fathers hold their children's hands in anticipation of getting them immunized, a man in his 20s has flu-like symptoms and an older gentleman wants a regular checkup. The ...

A Commitment to Lifelong Learning

Jul 01, 2008; Squazzo, Jessica D ... This year, ACHE celebrates its 75th anniversary. To commemorate this occasion, Healthcare Executive will feature a series of articles showcasing ACHE's rich history and contribution to healthcare. A history of ACHE's educational programming and the education of the hospital ...

Ethics and Quality Improvement

Jul 01, 2008; Nelson, William A; Gardent, Paul B ... Quality care and ethical principles cannot be separated when considering quality improvement activities. Q. Is there a relationship between quality improveW ment activities and ethics in today's healthcare organizations? A. The focus on the quality of healthcare has grown dra9 ...

Putting Patients First

Jul 01, 2008; Liebowitz, Richard ... Helping patients make care decisions through education. For New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP), putting patients first is not just a motto, it is a way of life. Since 1998 when New York Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital merged to create NYP, improving the patient experience has been ...

Making the Transition

Jul 01, 2008; Harrison, Kim T; Degenfelder, Curtis ... How FQHCs help hospitals and the communities they serve. In spring 2007, Stamford (Conn.) Hospital transitioned several of its primary clinics-Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics and Behavior Healthto Optimus Health Care Inc., a nonprofit, tax-exempt Federally ...

Changes Possible to Area Wage Index

Jul 01, 2008; Ferman, John H ... Hospitals should pay close attention for possible revision of methodology. Executives of the country's nearly 3,530 acute-care hospitals that will be subject to the provisions of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) FY 2009 acute inpatient prospective payment system ...

Building Business Know-How Through Simulation

Jul 01, 2008; Connelly, Michael D ... Hands-on tools can optimize financial learning among nonfinancial staff. At Catholic Healthcare Partners (CHP), we ascertained that a portion of our staff needed to develop a new skill set in an area in which they were not as comfortable and had less than a passionate interest ....

Should Physicians Serve on the Board?

Jul 01, 2008; Bass, Karma H ... Hospital-physician partnerships may need to be closely reviewed. Can a board make effective decisions without physician input? The assumption that hospital and health system boards work best when there is a voting physician board member or two is being questioned in some executive suites ...

A New Challenge in Patient Safety

Jul 01, 2008; Conway, Jim; McCannon, Joe; Gunther-Murphy, Christina ... Transforming leadership infrastructure through widespread board engagement. With a little more than six months remaining in the 5 Million Lives Campaign, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has begun to reflect deeply on progress so far. We have initiated several measurement ...

Succeeding in the Healthcare Market

Jul 01, 2008; Kaufman, Nathan S ... Making sure your organization thrives now and in 2011. No one can predict exactly what the healthcare delivery system will look like in 2011. However, an objective assessment of the trends in critical areas such as physician supply and sociodemographics, hospital management and ...

Managing an Experienced Staff

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... LEADERSHIP Being promoted can be an exciting and terrifying occasion-even more so if you are supervising staff for the first time who may have more experience than you. Below are some suggestions that might help you establish yourself in the leader role: * Acknowledge your ...

Working With Different Generations

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... EXECUTIVE SKILLS There is a generation gap in today's workplace that stems from different cultural experiences and attitudes, which impacts many aspects of an organization. Rather than expecting all generations to conform to the wishes of another, organizations should develop an ...

Tactics for Moving Into the C-Suite

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... MANAGEMENT Succession planning for the C-suite does not exist in a majority of organizations. As a result, talented midlevel executives are left with considerable uncertainty about their opportunities for continued professional advancement. There is a way, however, for aspiring ...

ACHE Affiliate Update

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... New Interim Regent Appointed Richard C. Hoeth, FACHE, vice president, Texas Hospital Association, has been appointed as Interim Regent-atLarge for District 4. ACHE Call for Nominations for the 2009 Slate ACHE's 2008-2009 Nominating Committee is calling for applications for ...

People

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... AHA Honors ACHE Affiliates Several ACHE affiliates received awards at the American Hospital Association's (AHA) annual meeting in Washington, D.C., in April. Fred L. Brown, LFACHE, chairman, Fred L. Brown & Associates LLC, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based international consulting ...

Leaders in Action

Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... MG David A. Rubenstein, FACHE Chairman AHA Annual Membership Meeting Washington, D.C. Marie ...