Restructuring Health Care

Book excerpt: As the author explains in this book, the problem of improving performance in health care is due largely to the underlying assumptions on which traditional administration practices have been based. In restructuring health care, he offers a new - and necessary - way of viewing health care, a new paradigm of hospital leadership. The author offers in-depth advice for making the necessary shift from hierarchical, functional organization structures to a patient-focused approach to health care operations. The author describes the concepts of implementing restructuring efforts and explains the theories on which these concepts are based.