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Publications and source records attributed to P R Donnelly.
The forum for many hospital managerial concerns is the medical staff committee meeting. This article focuses on the misuses and abuses of committees and offers suggestions for improving their effectiveness. The issues of composition, size, tenure, and formats are discussed, and guidelines for chairman are recommended.
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Because their future is interwoven with the Church's broader role, Catholic multihospital systems must not grow solely for efficiency's sake. On the following pages the authors analyze data showing a direct shift toward a new form of health care delivery and suggest that system types, organization structures, and objectives should reflect and enhance Gospel values.
Religious congregations are challenged to maintain the Catholic health care ministry at the local level despite the pressures of rising costs and decreasing religious personnel. In response, they are creating delivery systems and are experimenting with ways of increasing lay leadership.
As a social institution, trusteeship is under fire; and board members (both lay and religious) should understand some common misconceptions about their role and should reassess their obligations to the health care facility, the sponsoring group, and the community at large.
Catholic multihospital systems with central management services organizations (CMSOs) constitute a significant percentage of total Catholic hospitals and acute care beds. Results of a recent CHA survey provide a base for future analyses of the CMSO and reveal the potential for further system development.
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