Superior Productivity in Healthcare Organizations, Second Edition

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"If executives are tired of fleeting efforts on productivity management and want a pathway to effectiveness, then [this book] is a must read." ¿Steven D. Febus, MBA, CFO, Pullman Regional Hospital "For hospital system executives¿buy a copy for every manager at your hospital¿you won't regret it." ¿Megan Foster, CEO, Foster Health Consulting Loaded with practical, enduring solutions, this book helps hospitals and health systems achieve increased productivity in a surprisingly short time and at low cost. Paul Fogel draws on his experience with more than 70 hospitals and presents a simple, logical, and powerfully effective approach that focuses on implementing understandable labor standards, monitoring systems, and management protocols that build continuously on the organization's accomplishments and improvements. This revised second edition not only supports current financial and workforce trends in healthcare services, but also introduces an all-new chapter on how to develop workload measures to accurately reflect both volume and patient or service mix. Dozens of incisive illustrations, tables, financial models, and case studies illuminate the text's core concepts of measurement, accountability, simplicity, and fairness. If you are a hospital administrator, physician, corporate health system manager, financial executive, or health plan administrator, you will find here the tools to invigorate the productivity of your organization with long-lasting success.

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Paul Fogel, MBA, is the President of Executive Information Systems, Inc., an independent firm producing a financial reporting and forecasting system for hospitals that also offers services in productivity improvement, benchmarking, operations analysis, feasibility studies, and business planning. Mr. Fogel offers a unique perspective gained from working in more than 70 hospitals. Starting as a financial analyst in the banking and investment field, Mr. Fogel moved to the healthcare industry as a strategic business analyst. Working as a senior manager for MECON, Inc. (now known as Truven, Inc.), a national benchmarking and consulting firm to the healthcare industry, he consulted with more than 40 hospitals, including the United States Army, before starting his own consulting business in 1997. He has published articles on healthcare productivity and benchmarking in professional journals and speaks on related topics for the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).

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