Research Catalog

Title

Strategic alignment : managing integrated health systems : a book of cases / editors, Douglas A. Conrad, Geoffrey A. Hoare.

Publication

Arlington, Va. : AUPHA Press ; Ann Arbor : Health Administration Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Conrad, Douglas A., 1948-
• Hoare, Geoff

Description

vii, 303 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

• Alliances now shaping healthcare delivery are complex and diverse and require organizational change. The 13 cases in this volume examine vertical integration and managed care as forms of strategic alignment and capture the range of significant choices for health services organizations.
• Four steps of the strategic adaptation process are explored: environmental assessment, strategy making, building and managing systems and structures, and implementation. The cases also cover the internal requirements for successful vertical integration and show how organizations collaborate to enhance both individual competencies and their competitive positions. Strategic Alignment is an important and useful casebook for today's changing healthcare environment.

Subjects

• Health Systems Plans
• Health planning > United States > Case studies
• Health Services Administration
• Case Reports
• Health Planning
• Organizational Innovation
• Health services administration > United States > Case studies
• United States

Genre/Form

Case Reports.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Theoretical Framework and Structure of the Cases / Douglas A. Conrad and Geoffrey A. Hoare -- Pt. I. Environmental Assessment and Strategy Making. Case 1. Competition, Integration, and Diversification: Seven Hospitals of Growthville, U.S.A. / David B. Starkweather. Case 2. Western Health Care Systems: A Health Care Delivery Continuum / Robert C. Myrtle. Case 3. Strategic Choices in Building an Integrated Health Care Network: The Buena Vista Clinic Acquisition Proposal / Carol K. Jacobson. Case 4. Linkages between Acute and Long-Term Care Services / Nancy J. Packard -- Pt. II. Building and Balancing Systems and Structures. Case 5. Corporate Restructuring: Phase II / James D. Hart and Mary Ann Goeppele. Case 6. Centralization and Decentralization in a Vertically Integrated System: The XYZ Hospital Corporation / Arnold D. Kaluzny. Case 7. Organizational Control Issues for a Health Maintenance Organization Subsidiary / Jenifer Ehreth.
• Case 8. Make versus Buy Decisions in a Closed-Panel Health Maintenance Organization / Douglas A. Conrad -- Pt. III. Strategy Implementation and Reassessment. Case 9. Marketing in a Buy-Right Environment / R. Scott MacStravic. Case 10. Geriatric Assessment Center / R. Scott MacStravic. Case 11. Capitated Medicaid and St. Joseph's Hospital / Bradford Kirkman-Liff. Case 12. Analyzing the Financial Performance of Hospital-Based Managed Care Programs: The Case of Humana / Joseph S. Coyne -- Pt. IV. Integrating the Strategic Adaptation Process. Case 13. The Institute for Preventive Medicine Health Plan / Gordon D. Brown, Keith E. Boles and L. Jerome Ashford.

ISBN

1567930034 (softbound : acid-free paper)

LCCN

93034353

OCLC

• 28799756
• ocm28799756
• SCSB-4724591

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries