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20 People Who Make Healthcare Better
In our annual HealthLeaders 20, we offer profiles of individuals who are making a difference in today’s complex healthcare world.

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Expertise from the Outside
Hospitals are structuring advisory boards to provide critical strategic analysis at minimal cost.
2008 Top Leadership Teams
Bigger Isn't Always Better
Five Minute Consult
The Art of Negotiation
Your vendor is playing hardball. Your budget is limited. You must have this new technology. Can you still get the deal you really want? Yes.
Did You Say Know or No?
Future Tense
Solving the Capital Dilemma
Faced with outdated facilities and little or no money to upgrade, more hospitals are considering partnerships with for-profit organizations amid tight credit markets.
Write It Right
New Forms, New Headaches
Money Talk
Here Come the Seniors
The well-documented influx of baby boomer patients promises to increase the already high demand for senior services. But the prospect of expanding a service line that relies so heavily on Medicare has some hospital leaders jittery.

Mission Possible

Mission statements are often mocked for being uselessly generic. Random mission statement generators (really) can spit out any combination of "trust" and "teamwork" and "patient needs." Yet many real mission statements adopted by hospitals and healthcare systems are seriously specific, with careful and clear thought given to who should be served, how they should be served, and how management and the medical staff should work together toward those ends.

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