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Addressing pediatric asthma in the inner-city. Connecting uninsured patients with a medical home. Developing alternatives to emergency care for primary care. The winners of the AHA NOVA Awards make a difference in their communities.
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Awards and Prizes , Community-Institutional Relations , Hospital Administration/standards , Cooperative Behavior , Hospital Administration/methods , Humans , Medically Uninsured , Primary Health Care , Telemedicine , United StatesSubject(s)
Facility Design and Construction/economics , Financing, Construction/organization & administration , Hospital Administration , United States Government Agencies/organization & administration , Financing, Construction/economics , Humans , Maryland , United States , United States Government Agencies/economicsABSTRACT
The lines on the organizational chart used to be pretty clear. CEOs were responsible for strategy, external issues and dealing with the board, COOs rode herd on internal operations and day-to-day management, and CFOs managed the money to make it all happen. But as with so many other areas of health care, those roles have blurred. While the chief operating officer's job description hasn't been dramatically rewritten, the pressures facing hospitals today--physician relations: an increased focus on quality, safety and patient satisfaction; reimbursement changes such as Medicare's policies concerning payment for so-called never events; and a continually evolving competitive environment--are radically changing the demands on hospital COOs. The four COOs profiled here have embraced their expanded roles. Whether helping create and implement a rural organization's strategic plan, translating corporate policy to the front-line troops, leading a big regional system in a time of market crisis, or balancing the goals of the parent system with those of dozens of local hospitals, these COOs are performing jobs their predecessors a generation ago might not recognize.
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Efficiency, Organizational , Hospital Administrators/organization & administration , Economic Competition/organization & administration , Hospitals, Rural/organization & administration , Humans , Interprofessional Relations , Organizational Innovation , Organizational ObjectivesSubject(s)
Access to Information , Databases as Topic/statistics & numerical data , Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act/legislation & jurisprudence , Hospitals/classification , Medicare/legislation & jurisprudence , Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. , Financial Management, Hospital/legislation & jurisprudence , Financial Management, Hospital/methods , Insurance Claim Reporting/legislation & jurisprudence , Insurance, Health, Reimbursement/legislation & jurisprudence , United StatesSubject(s)
Computer Security , Confidentiality , Electronic Mail/standards , Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act , Risk Management , Computer Security/legislation & jurisprudence , Confidentiality/legislation & jurisprudence , Hospital-Patient Relations , Humans , Physician-Patient Relations , Risk Management/legislation & jurisprudence , Security Measures , Software , United StatesABSTRACT
Corporate campaigns are unions' latest--and most aggressive--tactic to recruit hospital employees. Learn what they are doing and be forearmed.
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Health Services Accessibility/organization & administration , Hospital Shared Services/organization & administration , Hospitals, Municipal/organization & administration , Hospitals, University/organization & administration , Emergency Service, Hospital/statistics & numerical data , Interinstitutional Relations , Multi-Institutional Systems/organization & administration , New York CityABSTRACT
With fast-paced advances in medicine and technology, certain types of surgery that could once only be performed on an inpatient basis are now moving to ambulatory surgery centers. Hospitals are exploring a variety of strategies to hold on to--and even expand--their share of the few profitable areas of health care today.
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Ambulatory Surgical Procedures/economics , Ambulatory Surgical Procedures/statistics & numerical data , Outpatient Clinics, Hospital , Surgicenters , Economic Competition/trends , Humans , Medicare Part A , Outpatient Clinics, Hospital/economics , Outpatient Clinics, Hospital/statistics & numerical data , Physicians' Offices/economics , Physicians' Offices/statistics & numerical data , Product Line Management/economics , Product Line Management/trends , Prospective Payment System , Surgicenters/economics , Surgicenters/statistics & numerical data , United StatesSubject(s)
Health Care Coalitions/organization & administration , Health Care Reform/organization & administration , Interinstitutional Relations , Cost Control , Employer Health Costs , Humans , Information Dissemination , Medical Informatics Applications , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Quality Assurance, Health Care , United States , WashingtonSubject(s)
Capital Expenditures , Capital Financing , Financial Management, Hospital , Pensions , Investments , United StatesSubject(s)
Disclosure/legislation & jurisprudence , Medical Records Department, Hospital , Medical Records Systems, Computerized/legislation & jurisprudence , Copying Processes , Medical Records Department, Hospital/legislation & jurisprudence , Medical Records Department, Hospital/organization & administration , Organizational Policy , United StatesABSTRACT
Your outpatient volume is booming and that's got you feeling pretty good, right? Uh-oh. The fact is, most hospitals are losing outpatient market share to competitors like physicians' offices and nonhospital-owned facilities, and proposed changes to DRG payments could aggravate the situation. But some hospitals are finding ways to regain the upper hand.
