Good Health and Health Care Managers as Ever More Effective Value Extractors - Following Up on Novant Health and Cape Cod Healthcare. Elvonda

The ever increasing compensation of top managers of health care organizations provides incentives to continue business as usual.  We have f...

Good Health and Not Going to Take it Anymore - Doctors in the Pacific Northwest Unionize, Begin Collective Bargaining with Hospital Systems. Elvonda

We have posted about the plight of the corporate physician .  In the US, home of the most commercialized health care system among developed ...

Good Health and Generic Management of Health Care Non-Profits, Brought to You by Leaders of (Sometimes Failed, or Bailed Out) Finance on the Board?. Elvonda

Introduction - Managerialism  We have frequently posted about what we have called generic management , the manager's coup d'etat , ...

Good Health and How Managerialsm/ Generic Management Damaged the American Red Cross. Elvonda

The American Red Cross is a storied non-profit organization.  It provides disaster relief, provides a major part of the US blood supply, and...

Good Health and Second Order Generic Management: Lobbyist Named CEO of American Hospital Association. Elvonda

A long time ago, in a universe far, far away, hospitals had relatively small administrations, usually lead by a older physician or nurse who...

Good Health and On Generic Management in Health Care: Hospital Chief Information Officers (CIOs) Say Patient Engagement is All About ... Themselves? . Elvonda

To laugh or to cry? - now it seems that hospital CIOs think they "own" patient engagement.  An article in Medscape summarized a pr...