Merging? Here's how to inform the media and your community
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Hospital mergers have a social and economic impact on the surrounding community and attract a great deal of community interest. Hospitals should identify the groups who are affected by such a merger, including the media, and prepare a plan to inform them. Hospital staff should always be informed of any management decision before the media or other outsiders are alerted. Hospitals can call press conferences as well as give one-on-one interviews to the press. The hospital's CEO should serve as a spokesperson and should understand how to effectively convey his or her message through the media.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1993
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Corporate culture: lessening the impact of layoffs on survivors
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Hospitals and other health care centers are finding it necessary to cut costs by laying off employees. Psychological stresses due to layoffs may lower morale of both those terminated and surviving employees, and valuable workers may resign because they do not want to work under the threat of further layoffs. Hiring freezes and early retirement offers may offer a more desirable method of staff reduction. Suggestions are included for humane management of layoffs. Also described is HealthSpan Health Systems' outplacement services for terminated employees.
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Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1993
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Will college nursing education include managed care?
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The Group Health Association of America, in conjunction with several nursing groups, is devising a framework for education on managed care to be used in bachelor of science nursing programs. This curriculum would include information on managed care organizations, delivery, utilization review, performance measurement, credentialing and other issues. Particular emphasis would be given to educating nurses on the financing of health care, cost-benefit assessment, and other factors needed to make the health care system more efficient.
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