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Article: Using leadership development programs to improve quality and efficiency in healthcare.
- Article from:
- Journal of Healthcare Management
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
- Author:
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
With heightened emphasis on the imperatives to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivered in U.S. hospitals and health systems, healthcare managers are challenged to consider innovative approaches to address these issues. Leadership development programs are increasingly common offerings within healthcare organizations, but linking such initiatives to quality and efficiency improvement programs remains rare.
This article uses data from three qualitative studies of leadership development in healthcare to answer the question, "What opportunities might exist to use leadership development programs to improve quality and ...