title: Champions of change. Today's CFOs learn to say 'yes' to TQM, patient-centered care and critical paths.
abstract: Still clinging to that old image of the hospital CFO as the person with the green eye shades and columnar paper who always says 'no'? Forget it. Today's CFO is a coach, teacher, leader and strategist. The new CFO is also a facilitator, actively finding ways to promote change, and actively finding ways to say "yes". At the root of this change is the CFO's involvement in initiatives--particularly TQM/CQI, patient-centered care and critical paths programs--that require a completely new approach to internal financing. In the process, inter-departmental relations at those hospitals are changing dramatically as well.
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Solovy
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002017:Budgets; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends*; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D007587:Job Description; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D012380:Role; D013192:Staff Development; D014481:United States