Large employers and their coalitions: exploring a hospital constituency

Article Abstract:

Large employers who form coalitions to buy health care for their employees more economically present a marketing challenge to hospitals. Relationships between hospitals and employer coalitions can be adversarial or tend toward a partnership. A focus group of employee health benefits managers identifies employer coalitions' priorities as health care cost control and more effective communication between hospitals and payers, as well as patient education of the billing system.

Accident and health insurance, Purchasing, Marketing, Health insurance

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Hospital CEOs view their careers: implications for selection, training, and placement

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A study of career attitudes among 324 hospital CEOs was used to theorize factors influencing future executive recruiting and training practices. Those factors included a change in necessary skill sets, a blending of humanitarian and business career interests in vocational preparation, and a capacity to expand beyond traditional roles in order to balance abilities in an executive team.

Surveys, Chief executive officers, Job satisfaction, Employment surveys, Hospital administrators

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Quality improvement for a hospital patient transportation system

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A hospital involved in an institution-wide quality control program developed an improved patient-transportation system. The system uses a queuing model, which determines staffing requirements, a centralized communication system and a computerized data collection system. The transport system has demonstrated cost, waiting-time and customer satisfaction improvements.

Health care industry, Quality management, Transportation

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