Collaborative Management in Health Care

Shows how health care administrators and clinical leaders can improve organizational effectiveness and responsiveness by fostering collaboration among different disciplines within their institutions. Provides six original case studies that show how integrative approaches can be applied in practice. Offers useful guidelines for choosing people to serve in key integrative positions, supporting the new structure through reward and information systems, and carrying out the change process. Part One: Effective Organization Design and Change
1. The Challenges of Improving Organization Effectiveness
2. The Continuum of Organization Structures
3. Leadership Skills for Integrative Managers
4. Reward Systems That Support Integrative Management andChange
5. Matching Integrative Structures and Information Systems
6. Implementing (and Surviving) the Change Process
7. Product Line Management: A Special Case of Integration
Part Two: From the Field: Lessons in Design andImplementation
8. Are Two Hats Better Than One? Biscayne Hospital
9. Involving Physicians and Trustees: Philadelphia Hospital MedicalCenter
10. Multiple Approaches to Integration: Hilltop HealthServices
11. Managing Key Factors in a Triad Structure: Bayview MedicalCenter
12. Strengths and Disadvantages of a Service Line Structure:Hanna-Thorndike Hospital
13. Implementing an Integrative Structure: Waller MemorialHospital
14. Using Organization Design to Facilitate Innovation

Dr. Charns is Professor of Health Policy and Management and director emeritus of the VA Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, a VA Health Services Research and Development center of innovation. Shows how health care administrators and clinical leaders can improve organizational effectiveness and responsiveness by fostering collaboration among different disciplines within their institutions. Provides six original case studies that show how integrative approaches can be applied in practice. Offers useful guidelines for choosing people to serve in key integrative positions, supporting the new structure through reward and information systems, and carrying out the change process. Written for health care administrators and clinical leaders, this study describes ways to improve organizational effectiveness by fostering collaboration among different disciplines. It includes six original case studies that show how to apply integrative approaches in practice. In addition, it offers useful guidelines for appointing people to key positions, supporting a new structure, and carrying out the change process.