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J Rovner

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Organizational ethics: it's your move.

As market forces have continued to push healthcare systems toward greater efficiency and lower costs, providers have begun asking for help in balancing ethical concerns. Several organizations are responding by establishing programs to provide guidelines for ethical decisionmaking. Health System Leader talked with these pioneers about their progress, the thinking that went into establishing these programs, and their recommendations for others beginning to tackle this need.

American Hospital Association↗

Mergers of equals: understanding the dynamics.

The current wave of mergers in the healthcare field is marked by demands from staff that their organizations not lose autonomy--and one way leaders are getting agreements signed is to assert that each merging group will be treated as equal in power. But such mergers, says consultant Stephen L. Ummel, can lead to "inertia, indecisiveness and confusion". Leaders of three healthcare systems--Partners in Boston, BJC in St. Louis and Lifespan in Rhode Island--cite four major lessons that others planning mergers should take to heart.

Decision Making, Organizational↗