"While the future of US healthcare is unclear the move toward value-based care is undoubtedly its next major shift. Reimbursement payment programs have already begun this metamorphosis and are increasingly being tied to quality measures. With the urgency of revolutionary change in the background, the healthcare organization must transform its care and business models to evolve into a next-level healthcare enterprise. In Essential Operational Components for High-Performing Healthcare Enterprises, Jon Burroughs and other nationally respected experts highlight the building blocks necessary to transform a healthcare organization into an integrated delivery system. In this operational model, hospitals and other entities in the system work together to achieve common clinical and business goals. Shifting from reactive to proactive, healthcare leaders must move the mindset and strategy of the healthcare system, from caring for the ill to preventing illness. This radical book proposes a framework of innovative strategies for shifting to a fully engaged, aligned, and integrated delivery system: - Effective leadership - The role of clinical staff - Strategic planning - Clinically integrated networks - Health information management - Population health - Actuarial risk and cost management The push for efficiency, quality, and cost reduction demands change in every area of the US healthcare system. Essential Operational Components for High-Performing Healthcare Enterprises defines the fundamental enterprise-wide elements that all healthcare organizations will need to embrace to excel in a value-based world"--

The purpose of this book is to provide a user-friendly guide for healthcare leaders, improvement practitioners, and providers at all levels (current and aspiring) to assemble performance-improvement ecosystems that will transform organizational performance, improve health outcomes, and stand the test of time in the face of scarce resources. The healthcare industry is experiencing more disruption and change now than ever before. The old way of doing business is gone and the new is here. Thus, healthcare leaders must evolve with the market or face extinction. As the market evolution continues, the only question is "How many organizations and leaders will make the cut?" The Ideal Performance-Improvement Ecosystem is a quick guide for the journey to the transformational promise land. Readers will gain simple, practical, and actionable insight on thought leadership topics such as the following: Strategic Planning Governance and Oversight Quality Management System Continuous Improvement Knowledge Management Culture “insert image” Casey Bedgood is a healthcare leader with over twenty years of experience. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt and accomplished author. Over the years, Casey's work has been recognized, sourced, and modeled by national and global best practice organizations in the healthcare industry and beyond. He has amassed a portfolio of dozens of publications on topics such as thought leadership, knowledge transfer, performance improvement, strategic design, innovative thinking, transformation, Quality Management System (QMS), and many others. Subsequently, many large complex healthcare enterprises across the US, Canada, and Singapore have sourced and sought after Casey's thought leadership expertise. Casey earned a BBA Magna Cum Laude from Mercer University and a Master's of public administration from Georgia College and State University (GCSU). He is a IISE Lean Green Belt, Six Sigma Green Belt, and Six Sigma Black Belt. Also, CAP trained via GE and a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).

Winner of the 2016 ACHE James A. Hamilton Book of the Year Award Healthcare organizations are facing many challenges in this new era of healthcare reform, one of which is to establish a new operating model for the organized medical staff. Deeply rooted in tradition, the current medical staff model can no longer hold in an environment where quality, safety, service, and cost-effectiveness are required for healthcare organizations to not only survive but truly thrive. In this book, the author, an experienced physician leader and healthcare consultant, describes key changes that must be made to redesign the medical staff model. He provides specific guidance and examples to help healthcare leaders and executives work with their physician leaders to face these changes successfully. Well-regarded contributors and subject matter experts offer additional examples and insights with special content throughout the book. The author provides an in-depth look into: The evolution of the physician culture from autonomy to collaboration and accountability that must take place for US healthcare providers to remain competitive in an increasingly global economy Select strategic medical staff development planning and credentialing/privileging approaches that are needed to ensure physician-organization alignment Components of an effective and rigorous performance management system that enables leaders to help physicians achieve mutually agreed-on goals and metrics and align them with those of the organization Medical staff performance assessment and improvement activities, including peer review best practices, ways to incentivize excellence, and how to address issues in a timely, compassionate way Negotiation of performance expectations with management and the hospital's board that are consistent with the organization's strategic plan Physician engagement and alignment strategies that will enable physicians and management to work together to achieve the goals of population health and reduced operating costs Healthcare executives and administrators, physician executives, and board leaders can use this book as a guide to learn from organizations that have successfully integrated and aligned with their medical staffs into a collaborative environment. Examples of organizations with medical staffs that have made a complete commitment to the success of their enterprises and the health of their communities are incorporated throughout the book.

"While the future of US healthcare is unclear the move toward value-based care is undoubtedly its next major shift. Reimbursement payment programs have already begun this metamorphosis and are increasingly being tied to quality measures. With the urgency of revolutionary change in the background, the healthcare organization must transform its care and business models to evolve into a next-level healthcare enterprise. In Essential Operational Components for High-Performing Healthcare Enterprises, Jon Burroughs and other nationally respected experts highlight the building blocks necessary to transform a healthcare organization into an integrated delivery system. In this operational model, hospitals and other entities in the system work together to achieve common clinical and business goals. Shifting from reactive to proactive, healthcare leaders must move the mindset and strategy of the healthcare system, from caring for the ill to preventing illness. This radical book proposes a framework of innovative strategies for shifting to a fully engaged, aligned, and integrated delivery system: - Effective leadership - The role of clinical staff - Strategic planning - Clinically integrated networks - Health information management - Population health - Actuarial risk and cost management The push for efficiency, quality, and cost reduction demands change in every area of the US healthcare system. Essential Operational Components for High-Performing Healthcare Enterprises defines the fundamental enterprise-wide elements that all healthcare organizations will need to embrace to excel in a value-based world"--

Hospitals have long relied on the heroics of one brilliant nurse or doctor to save the day. Such heroics often result in temporary workarounds and quick fixes that leave not only patients and quality care at risk, but also increase costs. This is the story of an organization breaking that habit. Like a growing number of healthcare organizations around the world, ThedaCare, Inc. has been using lean thinking and the principles of the Toyota Production System to improve quality of care, reduce waste, and become more reliable. But lean thinking was incompatible with ThedaCare’s old top-down, hero-based system of management. Kim Barnas, former SVP of ThedaCare, shows us how she and her team created a management system that is stable and lean, to spur continuous improvement. Beyond Heroes shows the reader, step by step, how ThedaCare teams developed the system, using the stories of its doctors, nurses and administrators to illustrate. The book explores each of the eight essential components of the lean system, from front-line problem solving with the scientific method to daily team huddles and creating standard work for leaders all the way to the top of an organization. Finally, the author introduces four executives from healthcare systems across North America who have implemented ThedaCare’s system and share the lessons they learned along the way. Beyond Heroes is not just a call to action or an argument for a better healthcare system. It is a necessary roadmap through the rocky terrain ahead, one that healthcare leaders can customize to their special needs.

Leaders and healthcare organizations, and students aspiring to become one, should be asking themselves one thing in these financially challenging times: how can they maintain a strategic and competitive advantage over other players in their market? Some healthcare organizations have faced extremely poor financial performance in recent years, with data suggesting that up to 10% of hospitals will go bankrupt or face closure within the next 10 years. Yet, little pragmatic evidence exists to offer insights into how to create better strategies to improve performance, build resiliency and align stakeholders. Essentials of Healthcare Strategy and Performance Management explores the most critical components of business strategy and performance management for modern, complex healthcare organizations. Using pragmatic and real-world evidence, this book provides essential briefings on key topics that every current or aspiring leader needs to know in order to better manage strategy and achieve improved performance in their hospital or health system. We will also specifically focus on implementation of strategy, and best practices for some of the most important quality management techniques. We hope this book helps inspire leaders to be creative in formulating more effective competitive strategy.