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| The designation of a literal or figurative area from which an organization's senior executives work. In a hospital, the C-suite can include examples such as CEO (Chief Operation Officer), CNO (Chief Nursing Officer), CIO (Chief Information Officer), CMO (Chief Medical Officer), and CFO (Chief Financial Officer). |
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| The study of standards of conduct (behavior) and moral judgements. |
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| Cost-effective, high quality health services |
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| The skills and abilities necessary to guide individuals and groups towards the achievement of a designated goal. Skills needed may include problem solving, effective communication, and strategic thinking. |
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| Algorithms for leadership function and behavior. |
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| An organization that is skilled at acquiring, creating, and transferring knowledge and modifying its behavior to reflect new insights and adapt to ongoing change. |
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| A health insurance program for eligible low-income and needy individuals and families supported by federal, state, and county dollars. |
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| A federally sponsored health insurance program for individuals age 65 and older, and for individuals of all ages with specific conditions and disabilities. |
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| Images, stories, and assumptions about aspects of the world, which determine our perspectives of what we see, how we see it, and how we act. |
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| Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) |
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| Enacted in 2010, the ACA was a series of reforms of the U.S healthcare delivery system. the Act went fully into effect in 2014, with the main goals of increasing the availability and accessibility of health insurance for US citizens and providing better coordinated, high-quality, cost-effective care. |
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| A person's beliefs, formed by the organization, regarding the terms and conditions of a reciprocal agreement between that person and his or her organization. |
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| A government sponsored health insurance program for all of a country's population, e.g. UK: National Health Service, US: "Medicare for all". |
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| A strategic plan that outlines how leadership roles will effectively transition with the departure of one or more leaders. |
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| The core elements of a framework to achieve better performance as suggested by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Successful leaders must develop the organizational will to achieve results, generate or identify effective ideas or strategies for improvement, and then execute those ideas. |
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