Nursing’s Growing Role
The new focus is on nurse-led care delivery systems and harnessing the economic power of nursing.
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Ray Nassief, the vice president of operations/support services at John Muir Health, favors a team approach to efficiency.
Ray Nassief, the vice president of operations/support services at John Muir Health, favors a team approach to efficiency.
The Cost-Quality Conundrum: Imaging
Rife with overutilization and a major driver of healthcare costs, advances in healthcare imaging have also led to earlier detection and saved lives. How to reconcile those competing conditions?
Rife with overutilization and a major driver of healthcare costs, advances in healthcare imaging have also led to earlier detection and saved lives. How to reconcile those competing conditions?
Effective Affiliations
Assessing antitrust regulations and establishing metrics are important considerations.
Assessing antitrust regulations and establishing metrics are important considerations.
Fighting Cancer: Finding the Right Approach
As volume continues to grow, operational efficiency and evidence-based treatment are becoming increasingly important to running a successful oncology service line.

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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