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K S Ehrat

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Leadership transition in the age of paradox.

The healthcare delivery system is undergoing great upheaval as individual providers respond to market pressures for aggressive cost reduction. Roles, relationships, processes, partnerships, and financing arrangements are on the table in the great race for competitive survival. The IDN department will address issues inherent in the evolution of free-standing acute care centers and private medical staffs into integrated delivery networks. It will globally explore alternative managed care and direct contracting at-risk strategies.

Delivery of Health Care, Integrated↗

The leadership dance.

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Delivery of Health Care, Integrated↗

Reformatting health care delivery.

The healthcare delivery system is undergoing great upheaval as individual providers respond to market pressures for aggressive cost reduction. Roles, relationships, processes, partnerships, and financing arrangements are on the table in the great race for competitive survival. The IDN department addresses issues inherent in the evolution of free-standing acute care centers and private medical staffs into integrated delivery networks. It globally explores alternative managed care and direct contracting at-risk strategies.

Delivery of Health Care, Integrated↗

The cost-quality balance: an analysis of quality, effectiveness, efficiency, and cost.

Present day fiscal pressures dictate the need for balancing nursing costs and quality concerns. This article presents logical and organized methodologies for interrelating quality compliance, patient volume, and nursing resource consumption and determining the costs associated with the delivery of quality nursing care. These methodologies provide the chief nursing officer a means for evaluating the impact of fiscal constraints on quality compliance and for judging any effectiveness/efficiency trade-offs.

Cost-Benefit Analysis↗

A model for politically astute planning and decision making.

The administrative role in both nursing service and education demands many political interfaces that encompass conflicts, negotiations, power struggles and on-going competition for scare resources. However, the skill required to deal effectively with those situations is a function of both career and organizational experiences. The model presented in this article is intended to provide nurse administrators with a framework for politically astute planning and decision making and avoidance of judgment faux pas.

Budgets↗

Emerging knowledge.

The healthcare delivery system is undergoing great upheaval as individual providers respond to market pressures for aggressive cost reduction. Roles, relationships, processes, partnerships, and financing arrangements are on the table in the great race for competitive survival. The IDN department addresses issues inherent in the evolution of free-standing acute care centers and private medical staffs into integrated delivery networks. It globally explores alternative managed care and direct contracting at-risk strategies.

Cognition↗