The transformational model for professional practice: a system integration focus.
Healthcare organizations face the increasingly difficult challenge of providing services that are of high quality, reasonable cost, and easy accessibility for their constituents. Mergers and acquisitions are one strategy for accomplishing this, but in doing so it is critical to have a "road map" to create an integrated system, rather than merely a consortium of hospitals. The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has successfully created an integrated healthcare system of 19 hospitals. The authors describe the professional practice model used as a framework for success in integrating patient care.
Wolf
Gail A
GA
Beckwith Institute for Innovation in Patient Care, UPMC Health System, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. wolfga@upmc.edu
Hayden
Margaret
M
Bradle
Judith A
JA
D003657:Decision Making; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005544:Forecasting; D006292:Health Priorities; D007857:Leadership; D016294:Models, Nursing; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States