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Article: Pulling health risk mgrs. out of the basement. (Special Report: Health Care Risk Management Review)
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- National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
- Article date:
- October 7, 1991
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Pulling Health Risk Mgrs. Out Of The Basement
Every manager knows, or soon learns, that his or her success largely depends on just two things:
* Where the manager ranks on the organizational ladder.
* From whom the manager receives authority.
What holds true for all managers, holds true for full-service health care risk managers as well. But these principles are especially crucial now, when many health care risk managers are striving for greater recognition within their own organizations so they can better do their jobs.
A "full-service" health care risk manager is the most neglected resource the health care organization's chief ...