Managing Resources: The Staff Monitoring and Improving
Introduction
Leadership in health care presents opportunity for unique challenge and self-fulfillment. It also calls on deep, personal strength, values, and vision. In addressing health care leaders, we are reminded of the clear differences among them: Some lead academic medical centers, others are responsible for health systems comprising various hospitals; and still others work in long-term care services, rehabilitation and specialty hospitals, hospice care, outpatient; and ambulatory care, teaching and research institutions, managed care organizations; and other divergent organizations—all of them participants within a continuum of care.