Leading Physicians through Change: How to Achieve and Sustain Results ANNOTATION
The book presents and describes in considerable detail a model for helping physicians cope successfully with the changes occurring in the healthcare field. Included are several stories of application of the model and testing tools to ensure that readers grasp the model's significance.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
About the Author
Jack Silversin and Mary Jane Kornacki are partners in Amicus, a health care consulting firm with clients nationwide. For two decades they have helped guide leaders of physician's organizations, hospitals, and health systems to develop shared organizational vision, strengthen leadership and governance, and accelerate implementation of large-scale change. This book integrates their observations and experience with the wisdom of 23 health care leaders whose sidebar contributions describe examples of leading physicians through change.
Jack Silversin has a dental degree and doctorate of public health from Harvard University, where he serves as a faculty member. He is helping to establish a center dedicated to understanding and prompting change in health care setting to be based at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
SYNOPSIS
The book provides detailed information on the form physicians for major organizational changes. The book includes tools for the model and a series of sidebars that describe successes with the model.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
A stumbling block to strategic change in many health care systems has been the failure of physicians and other leaders to create a meeting of the minds, leading to shared perspectives, shared intentions, and productive innovation. The authors explore this gap in vivid detail and offer a step-wise approach to much more productive interactions between physicians and the organizations with which they must work to meet patients' needs. Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, Mass.
A beautiful and articulate presentation of the best model I have seen for rapid change in physician organizations. We have used the model of "change levers and compact discussions" at Luther-Midelfort, and it works very successfully. William M. Rupp, Md, President and CEO, Luther-Midelfort Clinic, Eau Claire, Wis.
ACCREDITATION
Siversin, Jack, DMD, DrPH; Kornacki, Mary Jane , MS