The National Coalition on Health Care, a group of healthcare consumers, providers and payors, developed a seven-part strategy to increase the value of healthcare.
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The McDowell Hospital in Marion, N.C., part of Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health, is developing a strategic plan for the next 30 years after having served the community for three decades, according to a McDowell News report.
The following is an excerpt of a blog post reprinted with permission from AchieveIt.By nature, planning takes on a top-down approach, as the senior-most executives gather together to discuss the future direction of the organization. While decisions are generally grounded…
Here are nine strategic investments by hospitals made in the past month, beginning with the most recent.
With more healthcare organizations consolidating every year, it is critically important that newly formed systems develop a comprehensive strategic plan that sets the new organization's path towards success. While developing this "inaugural" strategic plan will involve the customary analytical analyses…
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The following is an excerpt of a blog post reprinted with permission from AchieveIt.Last week, in the first of this two-part blog, we discussed the need for and purpose of mission statements, which answer the question, "Why do we exist?"…
The slow transition to pay-for-performance is a tricky time for hospital and health system leaders, a phase often compared to having one foot in the canoe and the other on the dock. Here are five can't-miss resources for hospitals making…
There is no shortage of challenges in healthcare today. One of the most significant challenges is managing what economic futurist Ian Morrison calls "life in the gap," according to an American Hospital Association report. The "gap" is this awkward period…
The following is a blog post reprinted with permission from AchieveIt.Okay, so this is going to be one of those "you've got to be kidding me" moments, what many of us call a BFO: Blinding Flash of the Obvious. An…
Here are nine strategic investments by hospitals made in the past month, beginning with the most recent.