title: Leadership survey. An evaluation of health care executives' challenges.
abstract: Locating and keeping employees represents one of the greatest challenges facing health care leaders today. This is a key finding of the third Leadership Survey of executives in physician practices, managed care organizations and hospitals. The survey is sponsored by the Medical Group Management Association and Hospitals & Health Networks magazine. Other significant results: Practices put the most emphasis on teamwork, training and staff development as methods to combat labor shortages; practice executives count adequacy of reimbursements and physician productivity as top leadership challenges, along with the availability of qualified workers; practices choose print advertising and the addition of new products and services as the best ways for them to build market share.
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Thrall
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hoppszallern
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003363:Cost Control; D003625:Data Collection; D006123:Group Practice / Q000458:organization & administration; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration; D008389:Marketing of Health Services / Q000379:methods; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000600:supply & distribution; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000523:psychology*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States