When deteriorating margins jeopardize your hospital's or health system's financial health, take your organization off the critical list with Superior Productivity in Health Care Organizations: How to Get It, How to Keep It.



Loaded with practical, enduring solutions, this book will help hospital and health system management reclaim lost productivity in a surprisingly short time and at low cost. Based on the author's direct experience with over 50 hospitals, the text takes you step-by-step through the process from analysis to implementation of productivity standards and beyond. Learn to:







Identify and avoid the pitfalls that make most popular productivity strategies go awry



Reduce expenses to match the organization's revenues



Develop and implement realistic and understandable labor standards



Relate productivity to strategic goals



Resolve underlying management problems and implement core productivity concepts



Determine the proper role for department managers in increasing productivity



Determine the optimal time to use benchmarking



Avoid falling back on stopgap measures (e.g., layoffs)



Institute effective, customized monitoring systems and protocols



Develop suitable incentives and consequences for performance



Formulate new procedures to capture and build on what has been accomplished



Invigorate the productivity of any organization with entrepreneurship and innovation



Overcome entrenched politics that put off needed changes





Dozens of incisive illustrations, tables, flowcharts, and case studies illuminate the text's core concepts of measurement, accountability, simplicity, and fairness.



Get the only book that tackles head-on the productivity and viability issues on the minds of hospital administrators, physicians, corporate health system staff, financial executives, practice management administrators, clinical and technical managers, business planning and financial analysts, marketing specialists, health care consultants, and undergraduate and graduate students in health administration.