{"title":"How long will businesses have to wait? Small businesses seek health insurance rating reform.","authors":"Matthew E Haran","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 2","pages":"32-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22331787","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 balance between metrics and mission.","authors":"Ann Keillor, Greg Hobbs, Jeff Bauer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Culture and change are frequently linked in inquiries into the past, present and future of health care. However, an intimate relationship does not necessarily mean an easy marriage. Many predicted changes of the past decade (e.g., health care reform plans) failed to occur as expected because the culture's ability to resist was stronger than politics' power to transform. A force for change can also cause a health care entity (e.g., a small or rural hospital) to evolve into something very different in order to avoid its demise.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 1","pages":"12-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22259944","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":"Learning and creating synergy through dialogue.","authors":"Manya Arond-Thomas","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the complexity and change facing leaders and managers today, continuous learning, responsiveness, adaptation and innovation are essential survival skills. One constant that human beings seem to want and need more than anything else in relationship to another human is to be heard. Often in conversation, we spend a lot more time advocating for our position rather than seeking to hear and understand another.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 1","pages":"15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22259945","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":"Developing a health care agenda for Michigan.","authors":"Peter Schonfeld, Leah Romano","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Developing a health care agenda for Michigan will require intense dialogue among health care providers, policymakers, employers, communities and individuals. What follows is an outline of the health problems facing Michigan's residents and suggestions for tackling these enormous challenges. We hope that this will stimulate discussion among health care stakeholders in Michigan. Only through committed partnerships can we begin to improve the health of Michigan residents.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 1","pages":"8-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22259943","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":"Changing the culture of care.","authors":"Spencer Johnson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Culture: The concepts, habits, skills, arts, and institutions of a given people in a given period of civilization, or that which defines who we are.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 1","pages":"38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22259955","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":"Providing care options: traditional medicine and alternative treatments come together.","authors":"Jennifer Oberski","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo, has expanded its realm of services by opening the Bronson Center for Integrated Medicine (BCIM), which features an array of complementary therapies that serve to provide alternatives to traditional treatments.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 1","pages":"31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22258613","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":"Back to the future--a recipe for reform.","authors":"Spencer Johnson, Michael H Annison","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The 2002 MHA Health Care Leadership Forum provided an opportunity to review health care reform efforts--what we have accomplished, where we are now and what we need to do next.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 1","pages":"18-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22259948","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":"Staying committed.","authors":"Diane Valade","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>After an intensive and collaborative two-year effort, the Michigan Health and Safety Coalition (MH&SC) has publicly released hospital-specific information for seven serious medical conditions and for care provided in intensive care units. Hospitals' willingness to share this information and to commit to participation in ongoing collaborative improvement activities serves as a catalyst to achieving a mutual goal--statewide, systemic improvement in the safety and quality of health care.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 1","pages":"27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22259949","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":"Hope for the best--plan for the worst: disaster preparedness in a strange new world.","authors":"Michael H Annison, Troy Jackson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the last year, local, state and federal governments, as well as not-for-profit and private businesses, have had to examine how they would respond to a disaster. The responsibility to be well-prepared is especially important for hospitals for two reasons.</p>","PeriodicalId":80083,"journal":{"name":"Michigan health & hospitals","volume":"39 1","pages":"28-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22259954","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}