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Cost control, customer service and collaboration among health care sectors rank as top concerns with panelists in H&HN's annual Leadership Report. Efforts to improve community health are a priority, too, but are often frustrated by financial and other constraints. The 16 panelists represent managed care, physicians, and hospitals and health systems.
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Attitude of Health Personnel , Leadership , Community Health Services , Consumer Behavior , Cooperative Behavior , Cost Control , Group Practice/organization & administration , Hospital Administration , Hospital Administrators , Humans , Managed Care Programs/organization & administration , Physician Executives , United StatesABSTRACT
Few participants in our roundtable on provider-sponsored health plans see them the same way. Some are gearing up new products, others are scaling back or getting out. Yet they agreed on one thing: The financial risks are tremendous.
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Managed Care Programs/organization & administration , Provider-Sponsored Organizations/organization & administration , Attitude of Health Personnel , Decision Making, Organizational , Managed Care Programs/standards , Quality Assurance, Health Care , United StatesABSTRACT
Physician issues are at the heart of today's debate on how to reconfigure the delivery and financing system. Leaders agree that you can't live without doctors, but it can be difficult to live with them. In this fourth and final CEO Summit series planned by McMannis Associates and cosponsored by Hospitals & Health Networks, CEO leaders dissect some of the trickier physician issues.
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Decision Making, Organizational , Governing Board/organization & administration , Hospital-Physician Relations , Hospitals, Proprietary , Hospitals, Voluntary , Leadership , United StatesABSTRACT
There's a flood of change coming, and health care executives are quickly building and loading big boats to sail to the future. But what do you take--and what do you leave behind? What will be needed in the new world--and what won't? In the third of an exclusive four-part series planned by McManis Associates and co-sponsored by Hospitals & Health Networks, some top CEOs talk about their travel plans.
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Community Networks/organization & administration , Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures/organization & administration , Decision Making, Organizational , Economic Competition , Medicine , Specialization , United StatesABSTRACT
A new breed is evolving in health care. A provider sponsored network i s part insurance function and part provider function. But no one knows exactly how it will behave. In the second entry of the exclusive four-part CEO Summit series planned by McManis Associates and cosponsored by H&HN, some top leaders in health care discuss some of the conflict in this changing delivery system.
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Community Networks/trends , Insurance, Health/trends , Conflict of Interest , Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures/trends , Physician's Role , Quality of Health Care , United StatesABSTRACT
During 1985 Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from blood cultures of 74 patients at Tygerberg Hospital who were suffering from serious illness compatible with systemic spread of the organism. Twenty-six isolates (35%) were community-acquired and none were methicillin-resistant, while 48 were hospital-acquired of which 23 (48%) were methicillin-resistant. Methicillin resistance appears to be a problem confined to hospital isolates of S. aureus.
