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Integrated Leaders Build a Culture of Trust
Learn how to build the trust necessary to achieve meaningful collaboration, or integrated leadership.
Integrated leadership in healthcare refers to collaboration between an organization’s executive management team and its physicians. During the long period of transactional, fee-based healthcare services, health system administrators and physicians co-existed within a framework to provide care, but their decision-making responsibilities were separate and entirely different.
Healthcare executives looked after the business of providing care within the structure of an organization, which included only minimal interaction with physicians who treated their patients within the hospital or health system facility. The hospital or health systems provided the space and resources, the physicians provided the clinical expertise, and both were paid according to their contributions.
