After Restructuring : Empowerment Strategies at Work in America's Hospitals

Thomas G. Rundall

ISBN 10: 0787940291 / ISBN 13: 9780787940294

Edité par John Wiley & Sons Inc Sep 1998, 1998

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Neuware - Managing Change An in depth treatment of organizational change in hospitals. AfterRestructuring provides a mother-lode of insights and lessons thatwill be mined for years. A must read for all those committed toimproving hospital performance in a radically changing health caresystem. --Stephen M. Shortell, Blue Cross distinguished professor of healthpolicy and management professor of organization behavior, School ofPublic Health, University of California, Berkeley After Restructuring debunks the myths surrounding hospital changeand offers insightful and practical recommAndations for successfulrestructuring. This valuable book is based on the work of a team ofhealth services researchers headed up by Thomas Rundall, directorof the Center for Health Management Studies at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. The book reports the results of a three yearstudy of nine hospitals, an unaffiliated group of facilities inurban, rural, and suburban regions that received funding from TheRobert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trust torestructure patient care processes. The authors present a framework for understanding organizationalchange and define the principles that guide change facilitatorsthrough the five stages of change--readiness to change, awarenessof the need to change, identification and selection of changes,implementation, and institutionalization of changes. The standardsderived from the change experiences of these hospitals provideimportant best practice guidelines.

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• Titre: After Restructuring : Empowerment Strategies at Work in America's Hospitals
• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc Sep 1998
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0787940291
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780787940294
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 244 L x 161 H x 24 P (en millimètres) 244 millimètres de largeur par 161 millimètres de hauteur par 24 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 551 grammes

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Managing Change

An in depth treatment of organizational change in hospitals. AfterRestructuring provides a mother-lode of insights and lessons thatwill be mined for years. A must read for all those committed toimproving hospital performance in a radically changing health caresystem.
--Stephen M. Shortell, Blue Cross distinguished professor of healthpolicy and management professor of organization behavior, School ofPublic Health, University of California, Berkeley

After Restructuring debunks the myths surrounding hospital changeand offers insightful and practical recommAndations for successfulrestructuring. This valuable book is based on the work of a team ofhealth services researchers headed up by Thomas Rundall, directorof the Center for Health Management Studies at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. The book reports the results of a three yearstudy of nine hospitals, an unaffiliated group of facilities inurban, rural, and suburban regions that received funding from TheRobert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trust torestructure patient care processes.

The authors present a framework for understanding organizationalchange and define the principles that guide change facilitatorsthrough the five stages of change--readiness to change, awarenessof the need to change, identification and selection of changes, implementation, and institutionalization of changes. The standardsderived from the change experiences of these hospitals provideimportant best practice guidelines.

À propos de l?auteur

THOMAS G. RUNDALL is the founding director of the Center for Health Management Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and professor and director of the Graduate Program in Health Services Management at the University of California at Berkeley. DAVID B. STARKWEATHER is professor emeritus of Health Services Management at the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley. BARBARA R. NORRISH is a graduate of the doctoral program in Health Services and Policy Analysis at the University of California at Berkeley.