Dynamic Capacity Management for Healthcare

Dec. 6, 2010 - PRLog -- Written with the creativity needed to navigate and adjust to the rapidly changing landscape of American healthcare, Dynamic Capacity Management for Healthcare: Advanced Methods and Tools for Optimization presents the unique new tools, methodologies, and thinking that are required of healthcare facilities looking for ways to thrive in a reduced reimbursement, higher-cost world. Demonstrating his approaches and recommendations through case studies specific to the complex issues of healthcare delivery, Pierce Story, a long-time and passionate healthcare operations expert, shows how hospitals and health systems can respond to changing demands in an industry where both financial and human resources are shrinking while expectations for perfection continue to rise.

Through its unique approach to dynamic management of complex care systems, this volume raises the bar concerning what is possible. It’s now up to change agents in healthcare to meet this challenge. These pages present an excellent opportunity for them to learn how.

Endorsements

“This book is a must-read for anyone engaged in healthcare improvement, whether you work in a clinic, hospital, or healthcare system.”
    — Keith Messner, MD, MBA, BSN, Emergency Physician, Healthcare Transformation Medical Director, Cape Fear Valley Health System, Fayetteville, North Carolina

“Healthcare is facing a huge challenge in reforming delivery predicated on changes and incentives in payment. Without revamping dynamic delivery systems to reduce and to reallocate current costs, chaos and disruption will likely occur. We need the analytical tools and creative mindset outlined in this book to help guide us on the path to reform.”
    — Mike Sack, CEO, Hallmark Health

“Pierce Story has added an important chapter to the growing body of literature on healthcare performance improvement. His theme of managing effectively to actual demand is compelling, and the contention that healthcare leaders should not be dogmatic about the methods or tools of continuous improvement is right on target.”
   — Pat Hagan, President and COO, Seattle Children’s Hospital

About the Author

Pierce Story is currently the Senior Consulting Manager for GE Healthcare’s Hospital of the Future Division. He is also founder of Jumbee.com, a website now dedicated to the advancement of profound change in healthcare and health policy. During his 20+ year healthcare career, Pierce has dealt with complex systems redesign, operations improvement, and performance analysis throughout hospitals and health systems. Pierce brings years of experience, unique perspectives, and new concepts to patient flow, patient care, and health system redesign. Having developed several new applications and toolsets for the analysis and redesign of key clinical operations and patient care capacity strategies, Pierce knows the needs of the industry and the failings of traditional industrial methodologies. His vision is a new way of managing the provision of healthcare in the United States.

Dynamic Capacity Management for Healthcare: Advanced Methods and Tools for Optimization
ISBN: 9781439819753, 226 pp., Hard Cover, $59.95
http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439819753

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