The Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations

This is a comprehensive text on strategic management as it applies to a variety of health care organizations, including physicians' offices, hospital, long-term care facilities and health departments. The central theme of the text is that business-oriented strategic management can improve the success of health care organizations in a turbulent environment. Current health care examples are integrated throughout the 12 chapters of text material, organized around a model of strategic management. Step-by-step, students are presented with the theory of strategic management and a process to carry out strategic management. Additionally, six to ten actual current situations are presented in each chapter as perspectives. Following the chapters, there are 18 cases for students to analyze by applying the theory as presented in the text to current health care situations. To further aid the student, four appendices ("How To Analyze a Case", "Financial Analysis for Health Care", "Making an Oral Presentation" and "Secondary Data Sources") are included.