Book Info
Reveals strategies on how to develop and implement realistic standards for maximum productivity in hospital and healthcare systems. Shows how to resolve underlying management problems, develop suitable incentives and consequences for performance, and institute effective, customized monitoring systems and protocols. Features abundant tables and flowcharts. Softcover.

SYNOPSIS

When deteriorating margins jeopardize your hospital's or health system's financial health, take your organization off the critical list with Superior Productivity in Health Care Organizations.

Loaded with practical, enduring solutions, this book will help personnel in hospital and health system management reclaim lost productivity in a surprisingly short time and at low cost. Based on the author's direct experience with over 50 hospitals, the text takes you step by step through the process from analysis to implementation of productivity standards and beyond. Learn to:

_ Identify and avoid the pitfalls that make the most popular productivity strategies go awry_ Reduce expenses to match the organization's revenues_ Develop and implement realistic and understandable labor standards_ Relate productivity to strategic goals_ Resolve underlying management problems and implement core productivity concepts_ Determine the proper role for department managers in increasing productivity_ Determine the optimal time to use benchmarking_ Avoid falling back on stopgap measures (e.g., layoffs)_ Institute effective, customized monitoring systems and protocols_ Develop suitable incentives and consequences for performance_ Formulate new procedures to capture and build on what has been accomplished_ Invigorate the productivity of any organization with entrepreneurship and innovation_ Overcome entrenched politics that put off needed changes

Dozens of incisive illustrations, tables, flowcharts, and case studies illuminate the text's core concepts of measurement, accountability, simplicity, and fairness.