title: 1996 Andrew Pattullo lecture. A vision of the role of health administration education in the transformation of the American health system.
abstract: In summary, it is my conviction that each of the AUPHA programs would be well advised to re-discover a shared vision of health care as public service, caring for communities as well as for patients and enrolled populations. I am also convinced that each program should be shaping a shared vision of the role of the academic program in providing intellectual leadership in this respect. These processes can be designed to have impact on all of the activities of the program, starting with low hanging fruit, and moving higher with growing confidence and commitment. The key task for AUPHA as an organization right now is ro re-examine its own vision as a basis for providing strong leadership to the field. This involves promoting visioning as a management tool, helping to sharpen the accreditation requirements in this respect, and carrying out the recommendation of the Pew Health Professions Commission to bring the academic and practitioner worlds into closer synch. The talent and the zeal are evident. What is required now is the will to make changes. Continued transformation of the American Health system and of the academic programs in health administration are both inevitable. Managing the transformation is more exciting, more productive, more professionally satisfying and more fun than just surviving or not surviving at all. Managing a transformation is not easy, especially in academia. Just watching it happen is not nearly as satisfying or as much fun.
authors.affiliation: Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Sigmond
mesh_terms: D003254:Consumer Advocacy; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D004465:Economic Competition; D004500:Education, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D007857:Leadership; D017145:Models, Educational; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012952:Societies / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities