Restructuring Health Care or Unblemished

Restructuring Health Care: The Patient-Focused Paradigm

Author: J Philip Philip Lathrop

A Patient-Focused Paradigm

Brilliant and timely, thoughtful and practical. Regradless of the final shape of health care reform in the U.S., the patient-focused idea can and must be implemented. Bravo!
--Tom Peters, coauthor of In Search of Excellence and author of Liberation Management

This in-depth book offers advice on how health care operations can shift from hierarchical organization structures to patient-focused approaches. Uses a wealth of examples to illustrate the challenges faced by organizations that have undertaken this type of restructuring.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	The Author
	Introduction	1
1	What's the Big Problem?	4
2	The Nature of Structural Change	22
3	Compartmentalization and Its Discontents: High Cost and Poor Service	45
4	Patient Focus Begins with Demand	67
5	The Structure of a New Paradigm	89
6	Patient Aggregation: From Nursing Units to Patient Care Centers	110
7	Initial Deployment Decisions	134
8	Enablers for Change	158
9	Does It Work?	182
	Epilogue: The Patient-Focused Enterprise	205
	Recommended Readings	211
	Index	215

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Unblemished: Stop Breakouts! Fight Acne! Transform Your Life! Reclaim Your Self-Esteem with the Proven 3-Step Program Using over-the-Counter Medications

Author: Katie Rodan

It's a fact: Acne affects at least 50 million American men and women of all ages, ethnicities, and skin types. Yet so few of us understand why we have acne, and what we can do to treat it. Did I was my face the wrong way? Did I eat too much chocolate? Will that expensive new cream really work? Will my face ever look better?

In Unblemished, Drs. Katie Rodan and Kathy Fields- creators of Proactiv Solution, the country's #1 selling acne-care product- refute some of the most common misunderstandings about acne and present a groundbreaking guide using only over-the-counter medications to banish breakouts forever. Based on proven medical research and their extensive personal experience treating patients, the Rodan and Fields approach works in three basic steps. Rather than spot-treating blemishes and pimples reactively, their system- individualized for every skin color, type, and age- treats the entire face using an easy-to-follow regimen that is designed to attack acne at its source so you can get the clear, beautiful skin you've always wanted.