White House hosts briefing for health-care leaders

Health-care leaders work at the highest levels of organizations and face unique challenges in today's health-care systems. This article reports the lived experiences of an executive nurse to better understand their leadership journey and leadership shadow, exploring their professional development of health-care leadership while navigating change and conflict by interpreting critical turning points in their career and triangulating data to identify and analyze central themes. Offering a real-world perspective, the article uses personal reflection aligned to professional inquiry, workplace observations, document reviews, and personal accounts to focus on executive nursing and the construction of a social movement from within a large managed care organization. The purpose of this evaluation is to create deeper understandings of ways in which to improve patient and provider experiences, reduce system waste, and improve population health. The theme of transformational leadership emerged, and new insights were created to inform future thinking.

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Public Hospitals in China

International Journal of Public and Private Healthcare Management and Economics ◽

10.4018/ijpphme.2015010104 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 53-72

Author(s):

Donghai Wei ◽

Louis Rubino

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Care Reform ◽

Essential Medicine ◽

Universal Coverage ◽

Health Care Facilities ◽

Public Hospitals ◽

The Public ◽

Reform Plan ◽

Health Care Leaders ◽

Primary Health Care Facilities

China has had some initial success in its current health care reform efforts. Five areas of reform have been targeted and include providing universal coverage, equitable access to basic health insurance, establishing an essential medicine system, and improving primary health care facilities. The last area, the reform of the public hospitals, remains the most difficult to reform. General guidelines have been established by the national government and movement is being taken to delegate authority to local units for implementation. The aim of this paper is to compare China's formal government sponsored health care reform plan for public hospitals to the acknowledgement and acceptance by a sample of health care leaders in Guangzhou. Challenges are strong and include cost accountability, doctor training, employee empowerment, improprieties, and the influence of private hospitals. Based on this qualitative research, conclusions and recommendations are made by the authors as to what is necessary to have effective pubic hospital reform in China.

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National Policy on CAM: The White House Commission Report

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1111/j.1748-720x.2003.tb00086.x ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 251-261 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kathleen M. Boozang

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Alternative Medicine ◽

Complementary And Alternative Medicine ◽

National Policy ◽

Final Report ◽

White House ◽

Health Care Professions ◽

Commission Report ◽

Policy Proposals ◽

Complementary And Alternative

In March 2000, President William Clinton signed Executive Order 13,147, establishing the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, to develop public policy proposals geared toward maximizing “the benefits to Americans of complementary and alternative medicine.” Disconcertingly, the Commission's charge presumed the safety and efficacy of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). In so doing, it placed the proverbial cart before the horse by setting the Commission on a mission to “address education and training of health care practitioners in CAM; [coordinate] research to increase knowledge about CAM products; [provide] reliable and useful information on CAM to health care professions, and [provide] guidance on the appropriate access to and delivery of CAM.”The Commission's final report (“Commission Report”), issued in March 2002, similarly skirts the fundamental question of whether evidence exists that CAM interventions are safe or offer sufficient benefit to justify their proliferation.

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Chinese and US Health Care Leaders Discuss Challenges of the 21st Century

JAMA ◽

10.1001/jama.286.6.659 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 286 (6) ◽

pp. 659 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

21St Century ◽

Health Care Leaders

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Congressional and Governmental Agencies

Complementary health practice review ◽

10.1177/153321010100600305 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 239-245

Author(s):

Rena J. Gordon

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Primary Health Care ◽

Underserved Populations ◽

Research Activity ◽

Services Research ◽

White House ◽

Congressional Hearings ◽

Alternative Health ◽

Governmental Agencies ◽

Primary Health

Policy, clinical, and research activity in governmental sectors regarding complementa ry and alternative health practices is increasing. Reported in this column are selective policy activities from the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and from congressional hearings on cancer care. Also reported is a clinical initiative to provide better health care to underserved populations implemented by the Bureau of Primary Health Care. Also noted is a new health services research program of the NIH/NCCAM that targets the challenges in the integration of CAM into the health care system.

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