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using the power of relationships to achieve quality, efficiency and resilience
This book helps you know how to apply the latest business innovations to the healthcare industry. In order to improve services, maximize efficiency, and compete effectively, the health care industry must use the communication and relationship-building strategies that have transformed successful companies in every industry. An award winning professor of management and director of the MBA program at Brandeis University, Jody Hoffer Gittell's "Managing High Performance Healthcare" taps 10 years of research in the field, delivering a program that helps healthcare professionals tackle obstacles, boost performance, and support high performance at both a provider and industry level.
The challenges we face -- What is relational coordination? -- How relational coordination drives quality and efficiency performance -- A different kind of high performance work system -- Select for teamwork -- Measure team performance -- Reward team performance -- Resolve conflicts proactively -- Invest in frontline leadership -- Design jobs for focus -- Make job boundaries flexible -- Create boundary spanners -- Connect through pathways -- Broaden participation in patient rounds -- Develop shared information systems -- Partner with your suppliers -- Combine work practices to build a high performance work system -- Respond to pressure with resilience -- Transform your organization in a systemic and sustainable way -- Make unions your partners, not adversaries -- Support change at the industry level.