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L F Paradis
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Women CEOs: lonely at the top. Men still dominate upper echelons of healthcare management.
When researchers set out to examine opportunities for women as hospital CEOs, they studied three groups of CEOs: 22 men, 24 laywomen, and 22 women religious. They found some important trends: Laywomen CEOs tend to be at hospitals with the fewest beds and the lowest budgets, staffs, and salaries. No women run hospitals affiliated with medical schools. Laywomen have fewer support systems than men and women religious. They face greater institutional barriers, have more job and family conflicts, and receive limited financial support for educational advancement. Few women are hired into positions that allow them to advance to the ranks of CEOs. Hiring patterns disclose that CEOs, both women and men, tend to follow sex-role stereotypes when hiring for certain positions. A number of laywomen do not attend board meetings. Many Catholic hospitals have provided important and unique opportunities for women--women religious. Now these opportunities are fading as membership in religious institutes dwindles and women religious are replaced at the helms of healthcare facilities by men. Women religious can play a pivotal role in ensuring the participation of laywomen in healthcare. They must take a critical look at hiring practices within their institutions.
An assessment of health care supervisory training needs.
Managerial and supervisory skills are seldom included as part of health care workers' education. This article explores activities performed by supervisors and managers, past training, perceived needs for additional training, and factors influencing attendance at training programs.
An assessment of sociology's contributions to hospice: priorities for future research.
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Hospice volunteers: the impact of personality characteristics on retention and job performance.
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Home health agencies and hospices--stronger together or alone?
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The evolution of hospice in America toward organizational homogeneity.
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Co-optation and cooperation between home health agencies and hospices.
This study explores the emerging conflict and cooperation between two types of organizations providing home health care to chronically ill and terminal patients--the hospice and the home health agency. Exploratory results suggest that the variables of size (terminal patient load), and competition (the number of other home health agencies in an area) influence relationships between home health agencies and hospices. It is also suggested that recent Medicare regulations may encourage mergers between agencies and hospices in addition to the existing modes of cooperation and referrals.
Hospice and death education: a resource bibliography.
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Hospice and home health: together in harmony or discord?
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Hospice program integration: an issue for policymakers.
As the number of hospice programs in the United States expands, policymakers face a variety of issues concerning the care of the terminally ill. Do hospice programs offer a truly unique approach in caring for the dying? Are hospice services cost effective? Should hospice programs become integrated into the mainstream of medical care service delivery? Based on data from hospice programs in an industrialized Midwestern state, this paper explores the strategies employed by hospice programs to become integrated, the conflicts that have arisen among providers of hospice care, and the impact of hospice program integration on patient care. Results show that as hospice programs become more integrated, they have lost some of the idealism on which they were founded, have altered organizational structures, and have changed certain patient services. However, there is no evidence to suggest that integration of hospice programs into the medical mainstream has decreased the quality of patient care or patient satisfaction for hospice services.
Hospice: a rapidly-growing health care delivery segment.
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Health planning: greater medical school involvement.
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Volunteer stress and burnout: issues for administrators.
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Examining the caring function of hospices. Differences between community based and institutionally based hospice programs.
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Introducing hospice into allied health curricula: a challenge for educators.
Including hospice, as a concept of care, into existing allied health curricula is very important. Hospice should be integrated into the curricula of allied health programs. In addition to offering courses on hospice care, there are many novel ideas for exposing students to aspects of hospice care including grand rounds, self-instruction packets, journal clubs, honors program presentations, monthly forums, and clerkships. Federal funding is important to support and develop hospice training as well as other resources.