David Goldberg and David W. Miller author article in Management in Healthcare: A Peer-Reviewed Journal about medical group strategy.
This article delves into the case of Mon Health, a burgeoning five-hospital system in West Virginia, and its journey in crafting a transformational strategy. Initially, the focus was on envisioning how the physician network could progress in tandem with the shared goals of stakeholders and the evolving market demands, a vision shaped collaboratively by physicians and executives.
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The resultant roadmap tackled critical areas such as enhancing quality, prioritizing provider well-being, strategic expansion, and fostering physician leadership. Integration of employed physicians into the organizational framework and operations was ensured through mechanisms like the physician leadership council and joint leadership of services. Strategies encompassed involving physicians in service line leadership pairs and advisory board positions, forging a unified vision for advancement, outlining behavioral norms for a cohesive culture, and establishing the managerial framework to steer these initiatives. The document also highlights early performance enhancements catalyzed by this approach. Ultimately, it aims to outline a pathway for formulating a transformation plan that assembles a responsible, diverse group of specialists.
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Management in Healthcare is the major professional journal publishing in-depth, peer-reviewed articles and case studies on leadership, administration and management in healthcare. Content is written by and for healthcare management professionals and researchers with no advertising or sales pitches.
Each quarterly 100-page issue – published in print and online – features detailed, practical articles on key business issues which cut through the deluge of information facing healthcare management professionals to showcase the latest thought leadership in how to deliver more with less resources while at the same time improving healthcare quality, along with actionable advice and ‘lessons learned’ from fellow healthcare managers to put that strategy into practice. It does not publish advertising but rather detailed analysis of new thinking and practice at a wide range of healthcare providers worldwide for readers to benchmark their organization against, with every article being peer-reviewed by an expert Editorial Board to ensure that it focuses on the healthcare manager’s perspective, the challenges they face and how they can tackle them.
