Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations

by Ginter, Peter M.

• ISBN13: 9780631225867
• ISBN10: 0631225862
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

A comprehensive, concise text on strategic management as it applied to a variety of health care organizations: physicians offices, hospitals, long-term care, health departments and others. The central theme of the text is that business-oriented strategic management can improve the success of health care organizations. New to the fourth edition: each chapter has been fully updated and revised situational analysis and implementation are explicitly tied together through the value chain framework it includes 22 case studies, of which 10 are brand-new. The text also retains the important features that have made previous editions of the book such a success. Each chapter contains: a generous number of examples and exhibits summaries and conclusions key terms and concepts questions for class discussion additional readings appendices that assist readers by presenting ways to analyze health care cases and make oral presentations. The text is supported by PowerPoint Slides and a Teacher's Manual. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/ginter for details.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part 1 Initiating the Strategic Management Process	1	(208)
The Nature of Strategic Management	3	(47)
Understanding and Analyzing the External Environment	50	(42)
Service Area Competitor Analysis	92	(45)
Internal Environmental Analysis and Competitive Advantage	137	(38)
Directional Strategies	175	(34)
Part 2 Strategy Formulation	209	(104)
Developing Strategic Alternatives	211	(53)
Evaluation of Alternatives and Strategic Choice	264	(49)
Part 3 Strategy Implementation	313	(112)
Implementing Strategy through Value Adding Service Delivery Strategies	315	(41)
Implementing Strategy through Value Adding Support Strategies	356	(41)
Implementing Strategy through Unit Action Plans	397	(28)
Part 4 Controlling and Creating the Strategy	425	(88)
Control of the Strategy	427	(42)
Inventing the Future through Strategic Thinking: An Example	469	(44)
Part 5 Appendices	513	(32)
Appendix A Analyzing Strategic Health Care Cases	515	(11)
Appendix B Oral Presentations for Health Care Professionals	526	(19)
Part 6 Cases in the Health Care Sector	545	(427)
Case 1 The US Health Care System	547	(22)
Stuart A. Capper
Case 2 AIDSCAP Nepal	569	(19)
Ven Sriram
Franklyn Manu
Case 3 The Indiana State Department of Health: Managing Strategically	588	(26)
Peter M. Ginter
Linda E. Swayne
W. Jack Duncan
Case 4 Cooper Green Hospital and the Community Care Plan	614	(25)
Alice Adams
Peter M. Ginter
Linda E. Swayne
Case 5 The University of Texas Health Center at Tyler	639	(18)
Mark J. Kroll
Godwin Osuagwu
Case 6 Calumet Community Hospital	657	(14)
V. Aline Arnold
Case 7 Indian Health Service: Creating a Climate for Change	671	(20)
Robert J. Tosatto
Terrie C. Reeves
W. Jack Duncan
Peter M. Ginter
Case 8 Midwest: A Managed Health Care System Incorporates a Medical Practice	691	(21)
J. Stuart Bunderson
Shawn M. Lofstrom
Andrew H. Van de Ven
Case 9 Helicopter Emergency Medical Services at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics	712	(9)
Harry R. Kuniansky
Phil Rutsohn
Case 10 The Rosemont Behavioral Health Center	721	(14)
Phil Rutsohn
Bob Forget
Case 11 HMA and Its Riverview Regional Medical Center Facility	735	(23)
Beth Woodard
Donna J. Slovensky
Woodrow D. Richardson
Case 12 Dr. Louis Mickael: The Physician as Strategic Manager	758	(15)
C. Louise Sellaro
Case 13 Life Images: 3-D Ultrasound	773	(6)
Martin B. Gerowitz
Case 14 The Veterans Administration Medical Care System	779	(18)
Sharon Topping
Peter M. Ginter
Case 15 Wills Eye Hospital: A Specialty Hospital Survivor	797	(18)
Elizabeth B. Davis
Steven J. Porth
Linda E. Swayne
Case 16 C. W. Williams Health Center: A Community Asset	815	(21)
Linda E. Swayne
Peter M. Ginter
Case 17 The Visiting Nurses Association of the Greater Ledgerton Area: Working through the Tightening Web of Health Care Regulation	836	(15)
C. Louise Sellaro
Karen Lazarus
Case 18 The Premier Health Care Alliance Emerges	851	(25)
Linda E. Swayne
Peter M. Ginter
Case 19 MMG: The Integration Journey	876	(33)
Shawn M. Lofstrom
Rhonda Engleman
Russel Rogers
Frank Schultz
Andrew H. Van de Ven
Case 20 Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word Health Care System: Health Care Mission Plan	909	(13)
Martin B. Gerowitz
Case 21 Building for the Future of Public Health in Alabama	922	(33)
Rueben E. Davidson, III
Stuart A. Capper
Mahmud Hassan
Case 22 US HealthSolutions	955	(17)
Linda E. Swayne
Index	972