This book is designed to help health care executives prepare for the current and future challenges of ambulatory care planning, development, and management. It thoroughly examines the trAnds in financing, technology, and consumer demands that are fueling the ambulatory care revolution. The role of ambulatory care in integrated delivery systems is explored with practical strategies for taking advantage of the restructuring health care delivery system. Also included are five case studies that highlight the ambulatory care successes and struggles of a varied group of providers: a suburban health system, a regionally oriented rural health system, an urban health system and its physicians, an academic medical center, and a for-profit ambulatory care provider.

Ambulatory Care in Integrated Delivery Systems (J-B AHA Press)

Zuckerman, Alan M.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jossey-Bass

Strategic planning can help you "plan amid the chaos" to position your organization for long-term success. With this guide, you will learn an approach to successful strategic planning during times of change, applicable methodologies, process considerations, and special issues facing various types of healthcare organizations. Case studies provide a picture of strategies in action. 
This book: 
* outlines the steps for strategic planning in a changing environment * provides advice on how to analyze your organization's internal and external environments to identify its strategic direction * shows you how to implement the transition to a new organizational design

Healthcare Strategic Planning: Approaches for the 21st Century (Management Series)

Health Administration Pr

...explains various competitive strategies and how you can apply them at your organization...helps build and maintain a competitive advantage

Improve Your Competitive Strategy: A Guide for the Healthcare Executive

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

In today's consumer-driven marketplace, healthcare organizations gain market share by demonstrating excellence in clinical outcomes and customer service. Growing numbers of healthcare institutions are striving for and achieving ratings like top 100, five-star, magnet hospitals, and the 100 best places to work in America. Competing on Excellence: Healthcare Strategies for a Consumer-Driven Market, is an executive guide to creating a best-in-class healthcare organization. Authors Alan Zuckerman and Russ Coile discuss market principles, development programs, and business strategies that will make clinical programs successful. Learn how top provider organizations nurture cultures of excellence, provide world-class service, and develop winning relationships with physicians. This book will give you the ideas and inspiration you need to bring your organization to a new level of excellence.

Competing on Excellence: Healthcare Strategies for a Consumer-Driven Market

Business & Money

Coile, Russell C., Jr.

Marketing & Sales

Provides you with practical guidance to address near-term pressures as well as to archieve long-term goals. Descriptions, examples, and guidelines will lead you step by step through a proven strategic process.

Healthcare Strategic Planning