Strategic management of health care organizations
The 6th edition of this established text is streamlined to a more manageable format, with the Appendices moved to the web-site and a significant shortening of the main text. There is a greater focus on the global analysis of industry and competition; and analysis of the internal environment. In consultation with feedback from their adopters, the authors have concentrated on the fundamentals of strategy analysis and the underlying sources of profit. This reflects waning interest among senior executives in the pursuit of short-term shareholder value. As ever students are provided with the guidan
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The nature of strategic management
Understanding and analyzing the general environment of the health care environment
Service area competitor analysis
Internal environmental analysis and competitive advantage
Directional strategies
Developing strategic alternatives
Evaluation of alternatives and strategic choice
Value adding service delivery strategies
Value adding support strategies
Communicating the strategy and developing action plans. Appendices: Analyzing strategic health care cases
Financial analysis for health care organizations. Cases in the Health Care Sector: The pharmaceutical industry: an industry note
Salix Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: Succeeding on the road less traveled
Community Blood Center of the Carolinas: Donations, donations, donations
OR Solutions reaches a crossroad
Can this relationship be saved? The Midwestern Medical Group's integration journey
Ellen Zane: Leading change at Tufts-NEMC
Indian Health Service: Creating a climate for change
Dr. Louis Mickael: the physician as strategic manager
Governance challenges at Good Hand Healthcare (A)
The Rosemont Behavioral Health Center
Riverview Regional Medical Center: an HMA facility
AIDSCAP Nepal
Emanuel Medical Center: Crisis in the health care industry
Cooper Green Hospital and the Community Care Plan
"So, Doctor, Can you fix this?" A case involving a medical spa
C.W. Williams Health Center: A community asset
Pacific Cataract and Laser Institute: competing in the LASIK eye surgery market
The Premier Health Care Alliance emerges
The case for open heart surgery at Cabarrus Memorial Hospital
Emergency Care Group
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