Research Catalog

Title

Strategic management of health care organizations / Peter M. Ginter, Linda M. Swayne, W. Jack Duncan.

Author

Ginter, Peter M.

Publication

Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Duncan, W. Jack (Walter Jack)
• Swayne, Linda E.

Description

xv, 857 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

• Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations, Third Edition, is a comprehensive text on strategic management applied to a variety of health care organizations - physicians' offices, hospitals, long-term care facilities, health departments, and others. The central theme is that strategic management improves the success of health care organizations facing an extremely turbulent environment.
• All of the examples are drawn from the health care field and integrated throughout the fourteen chapters of text material. Organized around a model of strategic management, each chapter adds to the understanding of the processes that lead to the development of strategy. Although based on the theory of strategic management, the chapters provide step-by-step explanations that enable the reader to do strategic management.
• In the chapter perspectives, readers gain valuable exposure to current real situations being faced by today's health care professionals. The eighteen cases included at the end of the text provide readers with additional opportunities to apply the theory as presented in the text and to practice decision making within a variety of health care organizations.

Subjects

• Marketing of Health Services > methods
• Strategic planning
• Health facilities > Administration
• Organizational Innovation
• Health Services Administration
• Health Planning > organization & administration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Pt. I. Initiating the Strategic Management Process. Ch. 1. The Nature of Strategic Management. Ch. 2. Understanding and Analyzing the External Environment. Ch. 3. Service Area Competitor Analysis. Ch. 4. Internal Environmental Analysis. Ch. 5. Mission, Vision, Values, and Strategic Objectives -- Pt. II. Strategy Formulation. Ch. 6. Developing Strategic Alternatives. Ch. 7. Evaluation of Alternatives and Strategic Choice -- Pt. III. Strategic Implementation: Operational-Strategies. Ch. 8. Strategic Marketing. Ch. 9. Strategic Information Systems. Ch. 10. Strategic Financial Systems. Ch. 11. Strategic Management of Human Resources. Ch. 12. Organization-Wide Strategies -- Pt. IV. Controlling and Creating the Strategy. Ch. 13. Control of the Strategy. Ch. 14. Creating the Strategic Plan: An Example -- Pt. V. Appendices -- App. A. Analyzing Strategic Health Care Cases -- App. B. Financial Analysis for Health Care Organizations --
• App. C. Oral Presentations for Health Care Professionals (and Soon-to-Be Professionals) -- App. D. Information Sources for Health Care Administration -- App. E. Bibliography for Health Care Researchers and Strategists -- Pt. VI. Cases in the Health Care Sector. Case 1. Allina Medical Group: A Division of Allina Health System / J. Stuart Bunderson, Shawn M. Lofstrom and Andrew H. Van de Ven. Case 2. Life Images: 3-D Ultrasound / Martin B. Gerowitz. Case 3. The Visiting Nurses Association of the Greater Ledgerton Area: Working through the Tightening Web of Health Care Regulation / C. Louise Sellaro and Karen Lazarus. Case 4. HEALTHSOUTH Corporation: Becoming the Dominant Player in the Market / W. Jack Duncan, Peter M. Ginter and Michael Martin [et al.]. Case 5. The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler / Mark J. Kroll and Godwin Osuagwu. Case 6. Calumet Community Hospital / V. Aline Arnold.
• Case 7. Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word Health Care System: Health Care Mission Plan / Martin B. Gerowitz. Case 8. What's a CEO to Do? Two Vexing Cases in Health Administration Ethics / John M. Lincourt. Case 9. Helicopter Emergency Medical Services at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics / Harry R. Kuniansky and Phil Rutsohn. Case 10. Merck & Company, Inc., 1994 / Patricia H. Zahra and Shaker A. Zahra. Case 11. HMA and Its Riverview Regional Medical Center Facility / Beth Woodard, Donna J. Slovensky and Woodrow D. Richardson. Case 12. Dr. Louis Mickael: The Physician as Strategic Manager / C. Louise Sellaro. Case 13. Louisiana Office of Public Health: Challenges to the Strategic Planning Process / Woodrow D. Richardson, Peter M. Ginter and W. Jack Duncan [et al.]. Case 14. The Veterans Administration Medical Care System / Sharon Topping and Peter M. Ginter.
• Case 15. Wills Eye Hospital: A Specialty Hospital Survivor / Elizabeth Davis, Steven J. Porth and Linda E. Swayne. Case 16. C. W. Williams Health Center: A Community Asset / Linda E. Swayne and Peter M. Ginter. Case 17. Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation: A Growth and Acquisition Strategy / Sharon Topping and Peter M. Ginter. Case 18. The Premier Health Care Alliance Emerges / Linda E. Swayne and Peter M. Ginter.

ISBN

1557869685 (hardback)

LCCN

97012153

OCLC

• ocm36557226
• SCSB-4784224

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries