Download or read book Strategic Choices for America's Hospitals written by Stephen M. Shortell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic Choices presents the results of a comprehensive three-year study of eight leading hospital systems (comprising over 500 hospitals) to reveal how they have adapted to significant changes in the health care industry. Using numerous case studies, interviews, and examples, the authors examine which strategies for adaptation were chosen, what worked, what did not, and why. Winner of the Academy of Management's George R. Terry Book of the Year Award for outstanding contribution to advancing management knowledge. "Points to the crucial factors in implementing complex health services which may make the difference between success and failure in the 1990s".--Healthcare Forum Journal.