title: Quality management: fad or future?
abstract: The number-one job of healthcare chief executive officer is to be the standard bearer for quality healthcare delivery, says the top man of the Chicago-based Lutheran General Health Care System, an extensive multicorporate health organization. As long as the CEO remains vigilant and personally responsible for quality at his or her institution, quality management cannot become just a passing fad.
authors: Lutheran General Health Care System, Park Ridge, IL.
authors: S L
authors: SL
authors: Ummel
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards*; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000639:trends; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States