Healthcare Strategic Planning, Fifth Edition

by: Meredith C. Inniger (Author),John M. Harris MBA(Author)

Publisher: ACHE Management Series

Edition: Fifth edition

Publication Date: 2024/4/15

Language: English

Print Length: 380 pages

ISBN-10: 1640554386

ISBN-13: 9781640554382

Book Description

Healthcare Strategic Planning provides guidance for every stage of strategic planning and implementation:analyzing the environment, crafting strategy, putting the plan into action, and assessing the results. It describes the crucial decisions that must be made and the preparatory steps that must be taken for effective planning. This new edition contains the most recent research on strategic planning as well as updated best practices in light of current issues such as access to care, the national focus on health equity, and patient expectations in the wake of the pandemic.The authors have added new information on the importance of strategic thinking in management, effective stakeholder engagement, a seamless transition from planning to implementation, and ensuring strategic plan commitment. A new section highlights key issues specific to healthcare strategic planning. Each of these new chapters discusses its topic's history, organizational impacts, and strategic-planning implications.Healthcare Strategic Planning equips healthcare executives with the skills necessary to prepare their organizations for inevitable changes and challenges and to navigate them successfully.

About the Author

Healthcare Strategic Planning provides guidance for every stage of strategic planning and implementation:analyzing the environment, crafting strategy, putting the plan into action, and assessing the results. It describes the crucial decisions that must be made and the preparatory steps that must be taken for effective planning. This new edition contains the most recent research on strategic planning as well as updated best practices in light of current issues such as access to care, the national focus on health equity, and patient expectations in the wake of the pandemic.The authors have added new information on the importance of strategic thinking in management, effective stakeholder engagement, a seamless transition from planning to implementation, and ensuring strategic plan commitment. A new section highlights key issues specific to healthcare strategic planning. Each of these new chapters discusses its topic's history, organizational impacts, and strategic-planning implications.Healthcare Strategic Planning equips healthcare executives with the skills necessary to prepare their organizations for inevitable changes and challenges and to navigate them successfully.