{"title":"Elected or appointed? The case for healthcare trustees.","authors":"K Croll","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although most trustees in Canada are appointed, there is a growing trend to publicly elect them instead. Though motivated by a desire to make healthcare boards more accountable to the public, there is no evidence that public elections will accomplish this. There are a number of mechanisms already in place to ensure accountability, and appointing trustees makes it more likely that only properly qualified trustees will hold board positions. That control is vital to ensure that trustees have the strategic business thinking necessary to ensure the future of hospital corporations.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 2","pages":"7-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21029242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Outsourcing for food service: two scenarios.","authors":"L J Warren","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 2","pages":"5-6, 14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21029239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing diversity: a necessary skill.","authors":"L Kaminsky","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 2","pages":"39-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21029235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legalizing active euthanasia a dangerous step.","authors":"M Gallagher","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 1","pages":"5, 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21026161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who do you serve?: defining clients and stakeholders of long term and continuing care organizations.","authors":"M Macdonald","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many different groups each have a particular stake in the success of a continuing care or long term care organization. Each of these groups, however, measures success according to its own priorities. Before it can truly measure its accomplishments, an organization must first recognize all of its interested groups and understand their perspectives. Only then will it have a meaningful yardstick with which to measure its success.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 1","pages":"15-9, 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21026475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Six simple prescriptions for effective writing.","authors":"K Murton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 1","pages":"29-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21026479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A policy for allocating off-site continuing education funds.","authors":"P Dunscombe, S Duhamel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Providing support for travel to conferences, workshops and other off-site continuing education activities is an expensive component of a professional development program. The authors describe a policy addressing this issue which was implemented within the multidisciplinary environment of a comprehensive cancer centre. The policy is open, easily adapted to changes in overall funding and can be used to reflect the organization's expectations regarding employee performance in service, academic, management and leadership roles.</p>","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 1","pages":"32-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21026483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health for All (?) by the year 2000: backward to the millennium.","authors":"F L Paltiel","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 1","pages":"22-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21026477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cluster budgeting: a continuous quality improvement approach.","authors":"C White","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 1","pages":"20-1, 28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21026476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Health Action Lobby promotes a prescription for Medicare.","authors":"C Clemenhagen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79679,"journal":{"name":"Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante","volume":"5 1","pages":"3-4, 11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21026480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}