Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations [Hardcover]

Peter M. Ginter (Author), Linda E. Swayne (Author), W. Jack Duncan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 20, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0631225862 | ISBN-13: 978-0631225867 | Edition: 4

A comprehensive, concise text on strategic management as it applied to a variety of health care organizations: physicians offices, hospitals, long-term care, health departments and others. The central theme of the text is that business-oriented strategic management can improve the success of health care organizations.

New to the fourth edition:

• each chapter has been fully updated and revised
  
• situational analysis and implementation are explicitly tied together through the value chain framework
  
• it includes 22 case studies, of which 10 are brand-new.

The text also retains the important features that have made previous editions of the book such a success. Each chapter contains:

• a generous number of examples and exhibits
  
• summaries and conclusions
  
• key terms and concepts
  
• questions for class discussion
  
• additional readings
  
• appendices that assist readers by presenting ways to analyze health care cases and make oral presentations.

The text is supported by PowerPoint Slides and a Teacher's Manual. Visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/ginter for details.

Editorial Reviews

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"I have been using this book as a required text since the very first edition. It provides a framework which integrates some of the most important concepts in modern management with cases from the health services field. I highly recommend the book and compliment the authors for their important contributions to our field." Dr Barry R Greene, University of Iowa <!--end-->

"For years, this book has been the definitive text on strategic management in healthcare. This fourth edition will assure faculty offer current thinking in strategy formulation and implementation." Dr Janet E Porter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"The new 4th edition is substantively the authors' best effort to date. Each chapter has been updated and improved, innovative materials enhance the analysis and implementation content, and the cases offer a broadly representative spectrum of strategically challenging siturations. Most significantly, the new edition refocuses the primary orientation of the text to that of strategic thinking (not just the technology of doing) and of strategic management as leadership. both essential oreientations that are missing from any works on strategic management. This transformation strengthens the integration and cohesion of the text's content in a way that Ithink students of strategy will find helpful and compelling." Dr Barbara Arrington, St Louis University

Book Description

The fifth edition of the classic text in the field, Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations, introduces strategic thinking and planning strategies to advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as practitioners in the field . --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 991 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 4 edition (March 20, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0631225862
• ISBN-13: 978-0631225867
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.7 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,151,196 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must for the Novice Planner, July 26, 2000

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Eric Edwards (Birmingham, AL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations (Hardcover)

This comprehensive and yet easily understood text provides the fundamentals of strategic management as it applies to most any health care organization. The authors' experience comes to life in a variety of real examples and cases throughout the text. My background and interest in strategic planning led me to thoroughly examine the step-by-step processes, and I was amazed at both the simplicity and applicability of each. Definetly a text that I will recommend to anyone entering the healthcare industry or strategic planning arenas. Not only was I benefited by the purchase of this text, but had the opportunity to meet these outstanding authors in person during graduate study/research.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great balance of theory and practice, November 28, 2001

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Timothy A. Brauns (Roslindale, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations (Hardcover)

I used this text for a class in health care management. I was impressed by the readability of the text, the incredible amount of information it contained, and the great balance of theory with practical approaches. Many books about management are a bit short in the area of practical tools. This one gives you tools to work with. I used the outline of this book to do a strategic analysis of an organization with which I work. The only significant weakness of the book is the uneven quality of the case studies. These were contributed by outside authors. Some of these are terrific, others are not well written and not so helpful. Hope this gets corrected in the new edition.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars exactly what I did expect, May 15, 2000

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Nathan Michel - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations (Hardcover)

I have the book for two days and I like to read in it as I loved to read Tom Clancy's first stories, diificult to put down, indeed the first management book that I prefered to my used lectures in the evening . the content is what I needed in the field of stratégic management. it explains the fundamentals and give examples out of real live. there are some practical details which I see as very usefull for direct applications. I do not regret this this acquisition, the autors seem to have great experience, I found a lot of practical sens and no useless theoretical stuff. better, you can find your way in minutes through such a "big" book ad I found a lot of US.management ideas of interest in Europe. I do recommend this and I am looking for more by the same autor.