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A Patient-Focused Paradigm

Brilliant and timely, thoughtful and practical. Regradless of the final shape of health care reform in the U.S., the patient-focused idea can and must be implemented. Bravo!
--Tom Peters, coauthor of In Search of Excellence and author of Liberation Management

This in-depth book offers advice on how health care operations can shift from hierarchical organization structures to patient-focused approaches. Uses a wealth of examples to illustrate the challenges faced by organizations that have undertaken this type of restructuring.

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"Philip Lathrop's book is brilliant and timely, thoughtful, and practical. Regradless of the final shape of health care reform in the U.S., the patient-focused idea can and must be implemented. Bravo!" (Tom Peters, coauthor of In Search of Excellence and author of Liberation Management)

Table of Contents
1. What's the Big Problem?

2. The Nature of Structural Change.

3. Compartmentalization and Its Discontents: High Cost and Poor Service.

4. Patient Focus Begins with Demand.

5. The Structure of a New Paradigm.

6. Patient Aggregation: From Nursing to Patient Care Centers.

7. Initial Deployment Decisions.

8. Enablers for Change.

9. Does It Work?

Epilogue: The Patient-Focused Enterprise.

Restructuring Health Care: The Patient-Focused

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      Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
      Published 21 September 1993
      ISBN-13 9781555425944
      978-1555425944
      ISBN-10 1555425941
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      Health systems and services

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A Patient-Focused Paradigm

      Brilliant and timely, thoughtful and practical. Regradless of the final shape of health care reform in the U.S., the patient-focused idea can and must be implemented. Bravo!
      --Tom Peters, coauthor of In Search of Excellence and author of Liberation Management

      This in-depth book offers advice on how health care operations can shift from hierarchical organization structures to patient-focused approaches. Uses a wealth of examples to illustrate the challenges faced by organizations that have undertaken this type of restructuring.

      Trade Review
      "Philip Lathrop's book is brilliant and timely, thoughtful, and practical. Regradless of the final shape of health care reform in the U.S., the patient-focused idea can and must be implemented. Bravo!" (Tom Peters, coauthor of In Search of Excellence and author of Liberation Management)

      Table of Contents
      1. What's the Big Problem?

      2. The Nature of Structural Change.

      3. Compartmentalization and Its Discontents: High Cost and Poor Service.

      4. Patient Focus Begins with Demand.

      5. The Structure of a New Paradigm.

      6. Patient Aggregation: From Nursing to Patient Care Centers.

      7. Initial Deployment Decisions.

      8. Enablers for Change.

      9. Does It Work?

      Epilogue: The Patient-Focused Enterprise.

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