BOOKS

Healthcare Strategic Planning, Second Edition
© 2005
Alan M. Zuckerman, FACHE, FAAHC
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The second edition of Alan’s Zuckerman’s best-selling management book and winner of the American College of Healthcare Executive’s book-of-the-year award provides practical advice for planning to address near-term pressures as well as achieving long-term goals. Descriptions, examples, and guidelines lead the reader through a step-by-step strategic planning process.

Health care strategic planning has evolved significantly since the first edition of this book was published. This edition reinvigorates the discussion with many new ideas and additional information, including:

• The leadership role of the CEO in strategic planning
• The facilitator’s role in strategic planning
• The data needs for creating an environmental assessment
• Developing mission, vision, strategy, and values statements
• Defining the critical strategic issues
• The transition from planning to implementation
• Communicating and rolling out the plan’s findings and recommendations
• Conducting an annual strategic plan update
• Establishing strategic planning as an ongoing management process
• Encouraging more farsightedness, creativity, and responsiveness to change

To order this publication, contact the Health Administration Press:

Order Code: WWW1-2037
ISBN-10: 1-56793-237-1
Price: $68

Phone: (301) 362-6905
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Website: http://www.ache.org/pubs/zuckerman.cfm
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Competing on Excellence: Healthcare Strategies for a Consumer-Driven Market
© 2004
Alan M. Zuckerman, FACHE, FAAHC and Russell C. Coile, Jr.
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In today's consumer-driven marketplace, health care organizations gain market share by demonstrating excellence in clinical outcomes and customer service. Competing on Excellence: Healthcare Strategies for a Consumer-Driven Market, is an executive guide to creating a best-in-class healthcare organization. Authors Alan Zuckerman and the late Russ Coile discuss market principles, development programs, and business strategies that will make clinical programs successful. Learn how top provider organizations nurture cultures of excellence, provide world-class service, and develop winning relationships with physicians. This book will give you the ideas and inspiration you need to bring your organization to a new level of excellence.

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Order code: WWW1-1198
ISBN 1-56793-210-X
Price: $65

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Allies or Adversaries: Revitalizing the Medical Staff Organization
© 2004
Craig E. Holm, CHE, CHC
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In many health care organizations, the medical staff organization has evolved into a mandated entity that exists to fulfill credentialing and accreditation requirements, reather thean being a vital and strong organization that facilitates meaningful physician-hospital collaboration. Will medical staff organizations be allowed to languish into near uselessness or will their potential to be a forum for vibrant and meaningful collaboration be tapped?

This book will immerse readers in a thorough analysis and discussion of medical staff organizations. Topics include major influences on physicians and medical staff organizations, medical staff planning, incentivizing participation, strategies for managing adversarial physicians, developing effective working relationships within the medical staff organization, and first steps for revitalizing the medical staff organization.

"Chapter by chapter, Holm and his colleagues explore the current major influences affecting medical staff organizations. This work offers invaluable guidance to both clinical and non clinical leaders wishing to steer their institution out of today's preoccupation with survival, economic scarcity, and sometimes cutthroat provider competition. It highlights a reemergent focus on professional and institutional growth and development in the service of community and societal benefit-that is, toward genuine healthcare reform." --Martin D. Merry, M.D., adjunct associate clinical professor of health management and policy, University of New Hampshire and Senior Advisor for Medical Affairs, New Hampshire Hospital Association and the Foundation for Healthy Communities.

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ISBN 1-56793-223-1
Price: $57

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Improve Your Competitive Strategy: A Guide for the Healthcare Executive
© 2002
Alan M. Zuckerman, FACHE, FAAHC
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Build and maintain a competitive advantage with Improve Your Competitive Strategy. This book explains various competitive strategies and how you can apply them at your organization.

This practical guide provides you with advice and approaches for:

• Defining and implementing your competitive strategy
• Uncovering market needs that could lead to competitive advantage
• Anticipating and countering the moves of competitors
• Using basic analytical techniques to perform competitive analyses

The book also explores emerging approaches to competitive strategy and provides a list of simple guidelines for taking your current strategy to new levels.

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Order code: WWW1-1011
ISBN 1-56793-177-4
Price: $68

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Next Generation Physician--Health System Partnerships
©2000
Craig E. Holm, CHE, CHC
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Stop the red ink. Ease strained relationships. Improve your market share. Look beyond the current integration approaches that are failing to produce expected results. Next Generation Physician-Health System Partnerships provides creative new models for physician-hospital relationships that will help you cut costs, improve productivity, and provide better quality care.

The book includes practical steps for implementation and case studies that illustrate how the models operate. Find the common ground that will help you align into partnerships and integrated, financially successful systems and networks.

Topics covered include:

• Avoiding financial losses from physician affiliations
• Laying the foundation for successful partnerships
• Developing incentives for improving physician performance
• Increasing physicians' clinical autonomy
• Structuring partnerships that will pass regulatory scrutiny

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ISBN 1-56793-124-3

Price: $14.25

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The Physician's Survival Guide for the Hospital: Let the Hospital Work for You
© 2006
Samuel H. Steinberg, Ph.D.

Doctors need hospitals and hospitals need doctors; so why is it they communicate their needs to each other so badly?  Why all the animosity and conflict and mistrust?

The Physicians Survival Guide For the Hospital solves this problem by having an experienced hospital administrator reveal the information needed for each of these groups to be successful in the hospital environment; for physicians to learn the best and most efficient ways to get their hospital work accomplished, and for hospital administrators and practice administrators to be knowledgeable about what physicians need to take care of their patients.

This step-by-step guide takes you through all of the issues of physician-hospital practice, generating better teamwork, avoiding common pitfalls and mistakes, and providing a road map to make the hospital a better place for patients and staff.   Practice administrators will learn skills and information that will improve their job performance and enhance their standing with their physician colleagues.  Hospital administrators will learn what physicians need to take care of their patients; and physicians, those just starting their practice as well as the more seasoned, will become skilled at managing their hospital practice and make it a more enjoyable and rewarding experience. 

“In this book, Steinberg shares more than thirty years of experience and wisdom that bring clarity to physician-hospital relations. His observations and lessons are invaluable for physicians wishing to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their time spent in the hospital.”--David J. Shulkin, MD, president and CEO. Beth Israel Health System

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Ambulatory Care in Integrated Delivery Systems
© 1998
Alan M. Zuckerman, FACHE, FAAHC

Copublished with the Society for Ambulatory Care Professionals, this book is designed to help health care executives prepare for the current and future challenges of ambulatory care planning, development, technology, and consumer demands that are fueling the ambulatory care revolution. The role of ambulatory care in integrated delivery systems is explored with practical strategies for taking advantage of the restructuring of the health care delivery system.

"Ambulatory Care in Integrated Delivery Systems offers a clear, intelligent consideration of some of the major forces shaping the future of health care ... provides useful guidance and case studies that will be especially valuable to health care executives leading fast-paced change." -- Fred L. Brown, FACHE, president and CEO, BJC Health System

"Ambulatory care newcomers and seasoned veterans alike will find Zuckerman's outlines and critical thinking points to be extremely helpful in assessing their own organization's strategic position. An excellent tool for realistically developing a strategic planning model for ambulatory care." -- James John Potyraj, chief operating officer/practice administrator, UT-MED, The Group Practice of Medicine

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Leading Others, Managing Yourself
©2004
Peter McGinn, Ph.D.

Leadership is more than having a knack for predicting trends, a head for numbers, or years of experience to draw upon; it is also about intuition. This book is for managers and executives who are looking to sharpen their leadership capabilities, and who have the courage to learn more about themselves and how to use their instincts to lead others.

The core of this practical book is comprised of ten "laws" of leadership that author Peter McGinn, a healthcare CEO, has developed in his more than twenty years of experience. Learning to be a leader is a lifelong process, and McGinn includes invaluable lessons, such as the following:

• Understand that there is no "right" way of managing, and be prepared to deal with unexpected outcomes
• Measure results--how else will you know you're improving?
• Cultivate a diverse team--too much agreement is not always productive
• Create a compelling vision for yourself and your staff and use it to help you overcome all obstacles
• Know when to take a break, and help yourself to do the same

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