A hospital administrator's patient is the hospital. While doctors, nurses and other staff members work to save human lives, the hospital manager works to keep the hospital alive and running smoothly.

National policies to improve health care quality have largely focused on clinical provider outcomes and, more recently, payment reform. Yet the association between hospital leadership and quality, ...

Management quality significantly influences the impact of EHR adoption on hospital efficiency, particularly in length of stay and payment per discharge. Well-managed hospitals benefit more from EHR ...

Managing visitors is a key aspect of hospital management, presenting several considerations for patient and building security, staff workflow, regulatory compliance, and patient privacy. Visitor ...

Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, affiliations, co-management agreements, joint ventures, service line agreements, leasing arrangements and strategic partnerships. Sometimes it seems as though the ...

The shift to electronic medical records, mergers that create giant hospital systems, nationwide plans to insure more (or less) people—all of these systemic transformations have been rolled out with ...