he Toyota Production System, which was developed from the late 1940s through the mid-1970s by top Toyota executives to improve the company's manufacturing processes, is now used by numerous companies across various industries to reduce inefficiencies and improve the overall…
Leadership & Management
Craig Deao, the research and development leader for Studer Group, and the former senior director of education and networking at VHA, an alliance of 2,200 healthcare organizations, has a great deal of experience in facilitating the exchange of best practices…
Modern Healthcare magazine has named CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System in Texarkana, Texas, as one of the 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare in 2009, according to a release from Modern Healthcare.
Hospitals rely on many people to ensure that they are running smoothly and are able to provide quality and effective care to their patients. However, if a hospital's staff is dissatisfied or not unified towards achieving a shared vision, many…
1. Create a deliberate growth strategy. Every hospital should have a growth strategy, especially in this economy. You need to ask yourselves, "How are you going to develop as a business?" This hospital has identified several areas that we want…
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Bill Corr announced the release of $13.4 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for loan repayments to nurses who agree to work in facilities with critical nursing shortages and…
Officials from the American Medical Association are raising their concerns over some aspects of the current healthcare reform legislation circulating through Congress, which they say may interfere with a physician's relationship with his or her patients, according to a report…
The University of California, San Francisco Medical Group and the Hill Physicians Medical Group, one of the largest independent practice associations in Northern California will affiliate, effective Jan. 1, according to a report in the San Francisco Business Times.
Editor's note: The following is a letter written by Herbert Riemenschneider, MD, urologist and founder of Knightsbridge Surgery Center in Columbus, Ohio, to David Brooks, Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, regarding an article titled "The Town Hall Mob"…
While hospitalist programs are increasingly popular and can lead to improved outcomes, only half of the approximately 5,000 hospitals in the United States have implemented these programs, according to Stephen Houff, MD, president and CEO of Hospitalists Management Group.