| With health care comprising a significant part of | | | | the initial meeting with the new executive team |
| the national economy and growing larger every | | | | to the monthly coaching sessions with the |
| year, hospitals need to become efficient and | | | | hospital's health practitioners to just listen while |
| effective in how they take care of their own | | | | helping them improve their leadership skills, the |
| operations, their employees not to mention their | | | | reader in a very short time can understand how |
| patients. This is truly a white paper in a book that | | | | this management turnaround process happened |
| demonstrates, yes, hospitals can be healed and | | | | fairly quickly. |
| can be turned around in a relatively quick time | | | | David truly demonstrated that when a results |
| from losing hundreds of thousands of dollars to | | | | focused, innovative and authentic leader takes |
| becoming the premier hospital. | | | | over anything is possible. His modest sharing of his |
| In this turnaround case study, David Herdlinger | | | | part in turning around this struggling regional |
| shares how he became part of this incredible | | | | hospital in GA to become the best hospital and |
| story. Imagine a once profitable hospital becoming | | | | reflects his overall approach to coaching, training |
| a healthcare institution that was losing $1 million | | | | and the development of leadership skills. |
| per month and having a vote of "no confidence" | | | | Organizational change is not easy especially in the |
| by the medical staff with regards to management | | | | health care industry. This book provides a simple |
| company. The situation was indeed dire. | | | | place as to where to start and what to do. If you |
| Through the firing of the management team to | | | | are in health care, in a leadership or management |
| the hiring of a new CEO, Gary Colberg, David | | | | role and have issues ranging from financial to |
| documents many of the behind the scenes | | | | organizational culture, then this quick and easy |
| events that transformed this failing regional | | | | read may begin to provide some very doable |
| hospital into one of the best hospitals in GA. From | | | | answers for you. |