TY - BOOK AU - Gittell,Jody Hoffer TI - High Performance Healthcare : : Using the Power of Relationships to Achieve Quality, Efficiency and Resilience T2 - McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine SN - 9780071621762 (print) AV - R729.5.H4 U1 - 362.1068 23 PY - 2009/// CY - New York, N.Y. : PB - McGraw-Hill Education LLC., KW - Interprofessional Relations KW - Patient Care Team KW - organization & administration KW - Efficiency, Organizational KW - Health Facility Administration KW - Personnel Management KW - Quality Assurance, Health Care KW - Health care teams KW - Health facilities KW - Personnel management KW - Medical cooperation KW - Patient Care Team/organization & administration N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Part I: Transforming Healthcare -- Chapter 1: The Challenges We Face -- Chapter 2: What Is Relational Coordination? -- Chapter 3: How Relational Coordination Drives Quality and Efficiency Performance -- Part II: Building a High Performance Work System -- Chapter 4: A Different Kind of High Performance Work System -- Chapter 5: Select for Teamwork -- Chapter 6: Measure Team Performance -- Chapter 7: Reward Team Performance -- Chapter 8: Resolve Conflicts Proactively -- Chapter 9: Invest in Frontline Leadership -- Chapter 10: Design Jobs for Focus -- Chapter 11: Make Job Boundaries Flexible -- Chapter 12: Create Boundary Spanners -- Chapter 13: Connect through Pathways -- Chapter 14: Broaden Participation in Patient Rounds -- Chapter 15: Develop Shared Information Systems -- Chapter 16: Partner with Your Suppliers -- Chapter 17: Combine Work Practices to Build a High Performance Work System -- Part III: Getting from Here to There -- Chapter 18: Respond to Pressure with Resilience -- Chapter 19: Transform Your Organization in a Systemic and Sustainable Way -- Chapter 20: Make Unions Your Partners, Not Your Adversaries -- Chapter 21: Support Change at the Industry Level; Also issued in Online and PDF version N2 - This book helps you know how to apply the latest business innovations to the healthcare industry. In order to improve services, maximize efficiency, and compete effectively, the health care industry must use the communication and relationship-building strategies that have transformed successful companies in every industry. An award winning professor of management and director of the MBA program at Brandeis University, Jody Hoffer Gittell's "Managing High Performance Healthcare" taps 10 years of research in the field, delivering a program that helps healthcare professionals tackle obstacles, boost performance, and support high performance at both a provider and industry level UR - http://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/book.aspx?bookid=2318 ER -