| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Sustainability for Healthcare Management: A leadership imperative; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1. Hippocrates was right; 2. From governance to operations; 3. Saluting the captain of the ship; 4. Waste not want not; 5. The long and winding road (leads me home); 6. Good-bye fried chicken, hello healthy, sustainable food; 7. Through the looking-glass; 8. Before a baby's first breath; 9. Downstream without a paddle; 10. Building brand, literally; 11. Water changes everything; 12. Environmental ethics in healthcare management; Appendix; Notes; References; Index |
| Summary |
Sustainability is not unique to health, but is a unique vehicle for promoting healthy values. This book challenges healthcare leaders to think through the implications of our decisions from fiscal, societal and environmental perspectives. It links health values with sustainability drivers in order to enlighten leadership about the value of sustainability as we move toward a new paradigm of health. The authors explore leadership priorities and link them to sustainability, through an imaginary health leader, Fred, the Chief Executive Offi cer (CEO) of Memorial Hospital, a community hospital b |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Health services administration -- United States
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Medicine -- Environmental aspects
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Conservation of Natural Resources -- economics -- United States
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Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration -- United States
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Decision Making, Organizational -- United States
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Environmental Health -- United States
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Health services administration.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Singleton, J. Knox
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Wadhwa, Seema S
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| ISBN |
9781135116927 |
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113511692X |
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