Every decision healthcare executives make must at least enable the organization to meet its mission and to maintain its financial viability. As simple as those criteria sound, the traditional decision-making process is oftentimes inadequate for the fast-paced world of healthcare management.

In the upcoming book, authors Ken Mack, Mary Ann Crawford, and Mary Reed provide healthcare leaders with a seven-step approach to improve decision making. Included in each chapter are:

• Hands-on material
• Tools
• Worksheets
• Checklists

  The final chapter features a real-life example of the use of the seven-step decision-making approach by a hospital and its physicians.