McComb draws on his more than 40 years of experience as a hospital trustee, consultant, and health care lawyer to provide a thorough overview of the many issues confronting health care executives, including planning and marketing, ensuring fiscal integrity, understanding the board's role in improving quality of care, knowing when and how to restructure, contending with the impact of managed care systems, and adopting alternative strategies for responding to reform proposals. Table of Contents: 1. The Crisis and the Challenge; 2. Understanding the Hospital Setting; 3. The Goals of Governance; 4. Voluntarism and the Nonprofit Corporation; 5. Recruiting and Retaining the CEO; 6. The Committee System of Governance; 7. Board Accountability and Limitations; 8. Responsibilities in Planning and Marketing; 9. Ensuring Fiscal Integrity; 10. Improving Quality for Patients and Staff; 11. Knowing When and How to Restructure; 12. The Impact of Shared Services and Managed Care; 13. Meeting the Challenge and Building Effective Boards.
- ISBN10 1555424406
- ISBN13 9781555424404
- Publish Date 1 June 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 September 2005
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Imprint Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 178
- Language English