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E J Connors

Publications and source records attributed to E J Connors.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1995

Arranged marriages, unlikely partners. How will their offspring look?

In the new era of managed care, many religious healthcare providers are making "arranged marriages"--permanent partnerships with secular organizations. As they do so, the religious partners naturally ponder how best to ensure that their values permeate the new entity and thus prevail in later organizational "offspring." The organizations most likely to perpetuate their values are those with ethical corporate cultures and climates. These include religiously based healthcare providers, but such providers seem to lack confidence today in their ability to maintain culture and climate in newly formed partnerships. That may be fortunate because it prevents them from trying to impose their values on secular partners. Nevertheless, such values are often attractive to a prospective partner. A religious healthcare provider will need market leverage, as well as attractive values, to make a good "marriage." Even so, religious providers and secular investor-owned organizations are unlikely partners, because their motives and incentives differ radically. But religious providers can form solid relationships with secular, not-for-profit healthcare organizations if they take care to negotiate a binding commitment to maintain an ethical culture and climate. However, Catholic providers are at a disadvantage in such negotiations because Catholic religious congregations are unlikely to continue as owner-sponsors much beyond another decade. It is crucial that a stable source of influence develop to ensure a religious presence in the offspring of new partnerships.

Ethics, Institutional↗
PubMed1992

Health status of the community becoming focus of MHS (Mercy Health Services) system. Interview by Donald E.L. Johnson.

Since hospitals exist to stabilize and improve the health of the people they serve, they should form community health care systems that offer the full spectrum of services in an organized way, says Edward J. Connors, president of Mercy Health Services, in the following interview with Donald E.L. Johnson, editor and publisher of Health Care Strategic Management. Skills in epidemiology are desperately needed to accomplish this, as well as skills in statistics, information systems and outcomes measurement. Connors believes that a consensus has formed on the core content of health status measurement. Hospitals should start building the information base needed to improve the health status of their target population.

Catchment Area, Health↗
PubMed1986

Catholic health care: future blueprint.

Every Catholic hospital is influenced by one of two models of behavior, the private-business model and the public-service model. Which model eventually dominates an organization's actions is determined by the behavior of its leaders--sponsors, trustees, executive managers, and physicians. Since these internal forces are more likely than are external forces to determine an organization's course, Catholic health care leaders must consciously decide which value they wish to embrace. They also must improve their ability to forecast and influence the future, beginning with the creation of an independent national commission formed to assess the status of Catholic health care. Religious institutes, seeking collaboration and dialogue among themselves, should play a key role in implementing such a commission's recommendations. The Catholic health care systems that emerge in the future as a result of long-range planning and a value-driven philosophy will be multicongregational rather than owned by a single religious institute, fewer in number and larger in scope, and influential on a regional level. They will be expected to participate in networking with local non-Catholic providers and to integrate finance and delivery.

Behavior↗
PubMed1986

The future of the pathologist in the hospital setting.

The future of the pathologist in the hospital setting can be speculated on in light of contemporary and predictable trends occurring in hospitals. From five of these trends--downsizing, restructuring, diversification, hospital-physician relations, and for-profit hospitals--eight implications for the practice of pathology are identified.

Financial Management, Hospital↗