Description
Book SynopsisA comprehensive guide to effective strategic management of health care organizations.
Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations provides essential guidance for leading health care organizations through strategic management. This structured approach to strategic management examines the processes of strategic thinking, consensus building and documentation of that thinking into a strategic plan, and creating and maintaining strategic momentum all essential for coping with the rapidly evolving health care industry. Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations fully explains how strategic managers must become strategic thinkers with the ability to evaluate a changing industry, analyze data, question assumptions, and develop new ideas. The book guides readers through the strategic planning process demonstrating how to incorporate strategic thinking and create and document a clear and coherent plan of action. In addition, the all-important processe
Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Features of the Text xiv
Organization of the Text xvi
To the Students: Why This Book About Strategic Management Is Important xviii
The Author Team xviii
Acknowledgments xix
Chapters
Chapter 1 The Nature of Strategic Management 1
Chapter 2 External Analysis 37
Chapter 3 Service Area Competitor Analysis 79
Chapter 4 Internal Analysis and Competitive Advantage 121
Chapter 5 Directional Strategies 163
Chapter 6 Identifying Strategic Alternatives 205
Chapter 7 Evaluation of Alternatives and Strategic Choice 259
Chapter 8 Value-Adding Service Delivery Strategies 313
Chapter 9 Value-Adding Support Strategies 359
Chapter 10 Communicating Strategy and Developing Action Plans 401
Resources for Strategic Thinkers
Resource 1 Analyzing Strategic Health Care Cases 431
Resource 2 Health Care Organization Accounting, Finance, and Performance Analysis 443
Resource 3 Health Care Acronyms 463
Resource 4 Glossary of Strategic Management Terms 471
Cases in the Health Care Sector
Case 1 Cottage Senior Living
Case 2 Asian Health Services: Rediscovering a Blue Ocean
Case 3 Community Blood Center of the Carolinas: Building for a Better Community
Case 4 Navigating Change at Alaska’s Southcentral Foundation
Case 5 LINET Americas: This Bed Is Just Right!
Case 6 West Kendall Baptist Hospital: Meeting the Demand of Community- Based Health Care in the New (and Stormy) Regulatory Environment
Case 7 Humana’s Bold Goal: 20 Percent Healthier by 2020
Case 8 Pricing the EpiPen: This Is Going to Sting
Case 9 Cavalier Hospital
Case 10 Pleasant Bluffs Hospital: Launching a Home-Based Hospital Program
Case 11 Kaiser Permanente: Creating a No-Wait Emergency Department
Case 12 ExAblate Neuro
Case 13 Huntington Hospital
Case 14 Valley Health
Index 495
