Health services management : readings and commentary / edited by Anthony R. Kovner and Duncan Neuhauser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kovner, Anthony R.

Neuhauser, Duncan, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health facilities--Administration.

Health facilities.

Health services administration.

Health Services Administration.

Hospital Administration.

Medical Subjects:

Health Services Administration.

Hospital Administration.

Physical Description:

566 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Health Administration Press, [1978]

Contents:

Introduction

II. The role of the manager

Judgment in administration / Ray Brown

The politics of power in a hospital / Richard T. Viguers

Distinguishing organizational features of hospitals / Basil S. Georgopoulos

Administrative problems of neighborhood health centers / Paul R. Torrens

The hospital administrator / Anthony R. Kovner

The Gouverneur Health Services Program : an historical view / Harold L. Light and Howard J. Brown

III. Organizational design

Relationships between coordination, efficency, and quality of care in general hospitals / Beaufort B. Longest, Jr.

The hospital as a matrix organization / Duncan Neuhuauser

An empirical study : the effect of organizational differentiation and integration on hospital performance / L. Eugene Baldwin

The rationale for decentralization in large hospitals / David B. Starkweather

IV. Control

Information systems for hospitals : an organizational approach / Duncan Neuhauser

The evaluation of performance in the management of health care organizations / Karin A. Dumbaugh

Management control systems in health care / Regina E. Herzlinger, Gordon T. Moore, Elizabeth A. Hall

The notion of hospitals incentives / Robert M. Sigmond

V. Physician integration

Medical staff organization / Milton I. Roemer and Jay W. Friedman

Is your hospital trying to go big-time? Stop it! / Keith Rangel (pseud.)

Accountability and responsibility : professional judgments and the freedom to work / H. Jack Geiger

Does staff representation equal active participation? / Rockwell Schulz

Kaiser-Permanente : historical development and operating concepts / Cecil C. Cutting

Changing hospital goals / Robert M. Sigmond

VI. Adaptation

Relating a neighborhood health center to a general hospital : a case history / Anthony R. Kovner [and others]

The delivery of medical care / Sidney R. Garfield

Nursing homes in Massachusetts : industry in transition / Samuel Levey [and others]

Health care organizations and innovation / Nancy Milio

VII. Accountability

The hospital business / Ronald Kessler

A shopper's guide to surgery : fourteen rules on how to avoid unnecessary surgery / Herbert S. Denenberg

The impact of National Health Insurance Plans on consumers / Ruth M. Covell

Regulation of hospitals / Anne R. Somers

Beyond responsibility : toward accountability / K.J. Williams

Phase one of consumer participation in policies of 22 voluntary hospitals in New York City / Lowell E. Bellin, Florence Kavaler, Al Schwarz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-552) and index.

ISBN:

0914904175

9780914904175

OCLC:

3748329