Raising Standards in American Health Care

Author: V. Clayton Sherman
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0787946214

Raising Standards in American Health Care: Best People, Best Practices, Best Results

To thrive in the highly competitive health care marketplace, organizations must consistently demonstrate their ability to contain costs, improve quality, and increase customer satisfaction.
Southwest Airlines, Federal Express, and McDonald's have forged their paths to superior performance by mastering the art of strategic standardization, one of the most powerful forces used today to achieve performance excellence. With lessons from these and other business giants, Raising Standards in American Health Care translates proven Fortune 5O0 strategies to health care organizations and charts a clear pathway to success in network and virtual organization management. Going far beyond the strategic importance of best practices, Sherman also examines and critiques existing health care performance standards, from JCAHO, NCQA, and others -- as well as emerging alternative standards that promise to raise care levels uniformly in the future. Author: Sherman, V. Clayton ISBN-10: 0787946214
In Raising Standards in American Health Care, nationally acclaimed health care management expert V. Clay Sherman shows managers and executives how to utilize the powerful management force of strategic standardization to overcome the most common barriers to these challenges-and increase competitive advantage.

"Sherman gives us many embraceable ideas to work with, and his message remains solid: our health care organizations must be transformed by standardizing best practices. This is a refreshing, even exciting approach to the very foundation of setting

Raising Standards in American Health Care Best Peopl..., 9780787946210

Raising Standards in American Health Care Best People, Best Practices, Best Results, ISBN-13: 9780787946210, ISBN-10: 0787946214

A practical guide for health care managers and executives to overcoming barriers to change through one of the most powerful forces used by today's leading health care organizations--strategic standardization.

To thrive in the highly competitive health care marketplace, organizations must consistently demonstrate their ability to contain costs, improve quality, and increase customer satisfaction. In Raising Standards in American Health Care, nationally acclaimed health care management expert V. Clay Sherman shows managers and executives how to utilize the powerful management force of strategic standardization to overcome the most common barriers to these challenges-and increase competitive advantage. Raising Standards in American Health Care translates proven Fortune 500 business strategies into pat

Download Raising Standards in American Health Care

This is a refreshing, even exciting approach to the very foundation of setting