Healing a Hospital - The Turnaround at Southeast Georgia Health System

With health care comprising a significant part ofthe initial meeting with the new executive team
the national economy and growing larger everyto the monthly coaching sessions with the
year, hospitals need to become efficient andhospital's health practitioners to just listen while
effective in how they take care of their ownhelping them improve their leadership skills, the
operations, their employees not to mention theirreader in a very short time can understand how
patients. This is truly a white paper in a book thatthis management turnaround process happened
demonstrates, yes, hospitals can be healed andfairly quickly.
can be turned around in a relatively quick timeDavid truly demonstrated that when a results
from losing hundreds of thousands of dollars tofocused, innovative and authentic leader takes
becoming the premier hospital.over anything is possible. His modest sharing of his
In this turnaround case study, David Herdlingerpart in turning around this struggling regional
shares how he became part of this incrediblehospital in GA to become the best hospital and
story. Imagine a once profitable hospital becomingreflects his overall approach to coaching, training
a healthcare institution that was losing $1 millionand 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 managementhealth 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 toare in health care, in a leadership or management
the hiring of a new CEO, Gary Colberg, Davidrole and have issues ranging from financial to
documents many of the behind the scenesorganizational culture, then this quick and easy
events that transformed this failing regionalread may begin to provide some very doable
hospital into one of the best hospitals in GA. Fromanswers for you.