Healing a Hospital: The Turnaround At Southeast Georgia Health System

By David Herdlinger

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0979232511
• ISBN13: 9780979232510
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Wool Street Publishing
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Amazing Medicine

If you think that this is simply a wonderful story about an amazing 24 million dollar turn around within a hospital complex, you would be selling this book short. It is a shining example of how significant an organization can become once it has achieved complete clarity around its purpose. Starting with the concept that hospital and hospitality were derived from the same root word, this hospital sought to provide the very best patient experience possible. The leadership and organizational concepts presented in this book are applicable to any industry or organization, regardless of size. When David Herdlinger coaches someone, his clients do the work, achieve unimagined results, and David gives them full credit for the changes that have taken place. All the while he is working behind the scenes gently poking, prodding, and orchestrating the efforts. Despite his profound success as a coach (or perhaps because of it), David has a heightened sense of humility and modesty. So it is with Healing a Hospital. As you read this amazing story, David's role in the outcome is hardly touched upon, yet you come away knowing that this was truly a team effort and that David was an essential core member of that team. If you are part of an organization that has yet to achieve perfection, this book will serve as an inspiration and thought provoking experience. The values and concepts described in this book can help any organization become greater.

Hospitals Can Be Healed

With health care comprising a significant part of the national economy and growing larger every year, hospitals need to become efficient and effective in how they take care of their own operations, their employees not to mention their patients. This is truly a white paper in a book that demonstrates, Yes, hospitals can be healed and can be turnaround in a relatively quick time from losing hundreds of thousands of dollars to becoming the premier hospital. David Herdlinger shows that when a results focused, innovative and authentic leader takes over anything is possible. He also shares his part in how he helped one struggling hospital in GA to become the best of the best or the be The Red Jacket in a sea of gray suitsfrom providing training to one on one executive coaching. Organizational change is not easy especially in the health care industry. This book provides a simple place as to where to start and what to do.