title: Leading change: progression to the future at Hospital Sisters Health System.
abstract: Leadership is essential when a healthcare organization seeks to transform itself. The leaders of Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) successfully transformed their organization to an innovative method of service called Care Integration. This article explains the leadership principles behind this transformation, and describes how the leadership team engaged physicians as partners and participants in the change and ensured the information systems needed to support the change were available.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Sisters Health System, Springfield, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McCutcheon
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D018578:Hospital-Physician Relations; D007857:Leadership; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D014481:United States