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CV organizational structures: Roundtable resources

on March 7, 2013  |  Permalink

Topics: Regionalization and Networks, Strategy, Organizational Models, Workforce, Cardiovascular, Service Lines

Jeffrey Rakover, Cardiovascular Roundtable

Questions about CV organizational structures are among the most common asked by members. CV leaders wonder about governance structures at peer institutions and which departments typically report up through the CV service line administrator while also querying how best to organize services along a number of specific parameters:

  • How best to structure leadership while integrating clinicians
  • How to develop organizational structures for multidisciplinary, disease-centered care
  • How to create a governance structure across multiple sites of service or campuses within a system

The Roundtable has developed numerous resources touching on these and related questions.


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CV organizational structures: Roundtable resources

Effective peer review processes: Resources for your program

on February 15, 2013  |  Permalink

Topics: Physician Issues, Cardiovascular, Service Lines, Performance Improvement, Quality, Workforce, Performance Evaluations, Performance Management

Nicole MacMillan, Cardiovascular Roundtable

Clinical peer review. It’s a proven way to maintain high care quality. And yet, as Cardiovascular Roundtable members tell us, it so frequently fails up to live up to our expectations.

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Designing physician compensation to encourage alignment and quality improvement

on February 4, 2013  |  Permalink

Topics: Cardiovascular, Service Lines, Strategic Alignment, Workforce

Jeffrey Rakover, Cardiovascular Roundtable

Amid trends like increased physician employment and the adoption of risk-based payment models, some systems are struggling with physician compensation design.

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Designing physician compensation to encourage alignment and quality improvement

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