Masterpieces in Health Care Leadership: Cases and Analysis for Best Practices Vincent Pelote, MBA, Lynne Route, RN, BSN, MEd ISBN-13: 9780763738808 ISBN-10: 0763738808 $62.95 (Sugg. US List) Paperback 298 Pages © 2007

Masterpieces in Healthcare Leadership describes in vivid detail how leaders from nine successful healthcare organizations engage their staff to achieve extraordinary results. Insightful and revealing, the editors used stories to provide a real world framework for building and sustaining a high quality of care. The voices and the passion from the stories will captivate the reader and reveal key behaviors that set these leaders apart. The result is an environment in which leaders nurture and reward their staff and provide support structures that lead to high patient satisfaction and continuous quality improvement.

Features:

• Includes a practical ten-step process for leaders to implement.
• Provides a research-based approach in assessing successful leadership profiles.
• Describes for senior leaders the differentiating behaviors that enable success.
• Contains practical implementation strategies geared towards middle managers.
• Defines the prerequisites for deploying healthcare leadership across a variety of settings.

The health systems profiled include The Brigham and Women’s Hospital (a Member of Partners HealthCare System), The Cathedral Foundation, Clinton Hospital (a Member of UMass Memorial Health Care), Fairview Hospital (a Cleveland Clinic Hospital), Geisinger Health System, Greenwich Hospital (a Member of the Yale New Haven Health System), Mountain States Health Alliance, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Hamilton, and Sharp HealthCare.