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Woven Together |
What happens when a medical school and a hospital group become truly integrated? NYU Langone Medical Center aims to find out. |
Pump Up the Process |
Corporations that successfully manage complex processes have a huge advantage—in hospitals, it can mean the difference between life and death. |
Winchester District Memorial Hospital: Balancing Act |
The expectations of these tight-knit communities guided this hospital’s administration down the path to developing a new high-tech and high-touch facility. |
Marquette General Health System: A Quick Rebuild |
With a newly revised executive leadership team and board of directors, this hospital restructured its strategic plan and improved its profitability. |
Care Station Medical Group: Healthcare of the Future |
This multi-specialty private practice is breaking ground for the healthcare industry in more ways than one. |
Brethren Village: Going Vertical |
A campus redevelopment is setting this CCRC up for the future of senior care. |
Lowell General Hospital: Together We Stand |
By maintaining a united front, leaders, employees, and physicians at this general acute care hospital have improved overall satisfaction and quality. |
St. Joseph Medical Center: 26.2 Mindset |
Scott Kashman developed an analogous relationship between marathon training and healthcare management to create a hospital culture focused on continuous improvement. |
Still River Systems: Smaller is Better |
Shrinking tumors and the systems that fight them—that is the goal of this proton therapy solutions company. |
Willcare: Health at Home |
With new IT equipment and new majority owners, this home healthcare provider is looking to expand. |
SelectHealth: The Healthy Choice |
This health plan makes investments today to produce healthier results tomorrow. |
St. Mary’s Medical Center: Holistic Medicine |
Restructuring at the top of and new programs throughout this healthcare organization have resulted in improvement across the board. |
Technology: Paper-free Purchasing |
We take a look at the latest and greatest in software to help hospitals and physician practices bring their supply chain into the 21st century. |
Management: Speak to Me |
The need to innovate has never been greater in healthcare, but the barriers remain high. We look at three companies that are leading the way. |
Legal: Trimming Costs |
In the past, your legal department spent as much money as it needed. In today’s economic environment, a bit more supervision seems in order. |
Best Practices: Big Plans |
It’s the question that keeps hospital administrators up at night: will we be prepared in a mass emergency? Two experts offer tips to maximize your resources. |
Best Practices: The Point of the Spear |
Authors Jamie and Maren Showkeir talk about changing healthcare’s culture— one conversation at a time. |
Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital: Mission and Margin |
This faith-based suburban hospital is working to establish a new standard of care that will benefit patients and guarantee its success for years to come. |
American Fork Hospital: Safe and Satisfied |
Through initiatives that result in continual improvement, this nonprofit hospital focuses on keeping patients safe and satisfied. |
American Medical Systems: Steady Focus |
By concentrating on pelvic health since 1972, this medical device company has helped many people overcome common pelvic conditions. |
Avera McKennan Laboratory: Stanardizing Services |
As the first hospital laboratory in the US to gain ISO-15189 accreditation, this organization is establishing new standards. |
Chandler Health & Rehab Center: Starting Over |
With a new name, new leadership, and a new direction, this Alabama nursing home is breaking out of the institutional model of care. |
Covenant Retirement Communities: Focus on Fulfillment |
By making sure residents continue to have a purpose even in retirement, this CCRC has created a strong culture and finances to match. |
Crescent Healthcare: Infusion of Change |
By adjusting its business model and partnering with clients, this infusion company is helping patients receive appropriate and cost-effective care. |
Duncan Regional Hospital: Quality Care at Home |
Through collaborations with a variety of partners, this small rural hospital is combating out-migration and ensuring success for the future. |
CompleteRx: Prescribing a Cure |
This pharmacy management company is making it easier for hospitals to bring physicians, nurses, and pharmacists together as a more effective healthcare team. |
Davis Vision: Clear Skies Ahead |
This managed care vision company has become one of the largest in the country through unmatched flexibility, efficiency, and the support of its parent company. |
SXC Health Solutions: Built for Growth |
A massive acquisition, new business, and technological innovation have this pharmacy benefit management (PBM) industry leader equipped to handle recent explosive growth. |
Health Contact Partners: Partners in Health |
This call center company takes advantage of its parent company’s resources to provide quality care to its members. |
Contrarian Edge: Keys to the Kingdom |
Management guru Clay Sherman says since healthcare is all about winning battles (just ask patients battling for their lives or trying to make sense of an incomprehensible bill), its time for some battlefield lessons. |
Dose of Reality: Senior Savvy |
Editor-in-cheif- Jill Rose is excited about and ED designed to better accomodate seniors. |
Contrarian Wisdon: Ditch the System |
Columnist Clay Sherman breaks down what the healthcare system should leave behind and aim for the future. |