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April 15, 2020
Other Article

Designating Certain Post-Acute Care Facilities As COVID-19 Skilled Care Centers Can Increase Hospital Capacity And Keep Nursing Home Patients Safer

By: Leemore S. Dafny and Steven S. Lee

As the number of COVID-19 cases nationwide continues to grow, many hospitals will need to convert acute care beds into intensive care beds and discharge stable patients to post-acute care settings such as nursing homes. In addition, nursing homes unable to care for... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Nursing Homes; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Safety; Quality

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June 2012 (Revised October 2018)
Case

Home Nursing of North Carolina

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

Ari Medoff's (HBS '11) goal was to control his own professional destiny by owning his own company. His search identified a suitable acquisition in Home Nursing of North Carolina, and he had negotiated a purchase price of $3.5 million, or 4.2x trailing EBITDA. Medoff... View Details

Keywords: Search Funds; Small Companies; Acquisitions; Negotiation; Medical Services; Negotiation Process; Valuation; Investment; Acquisition; Health Industry

September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
Case

Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Mala Kaul

The Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System case presents one home healthcare organization's efforts to use telemonitoring to improve the quality of care provided to at-risk patients who were discharged from hospitals and needed home care. After two years of... View Details

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Cost vs Benefits; Risk Management; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry

June 2018 (Revised February 2019)
Teaching Note

Home Nursing of North Carolina

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld

In 2011, immediately after graduating HBS, Ari Medoff began a self-funded search for a small firm to buy and run as its CEO. After just three month of searching, he identified Home Nursing of North Carolina (HNNC), a home care agency based in Greensboro, NC, as a... View Details

Keywords: Small Firms Management; Acquisition; Negotiation Process; Investment; Small Business; Management; Personal Development and Career

April 1992 (Revised June 1993)
Case

American Nursing Services, Inc.

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Roger H. Hallowell

P.K. Scherle, R.N., founder, president, and owner, struggles with her successful business and focuses on either growth or enhanced profitability. View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Service Delivery; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry

November 2018
Supplement

Home Nursing of North Carolina

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

August 2000
Case

Developing Nurse Practitioners at the College of St. Catherine

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Sarah S. Khetani

Margaret McLaughlin has just begun her new appointment as the Dean of Health Professions at the College of St. Catherine in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. As an education leader, her charge is to develop Minnesota's health care workforce for the future. She is... View Details

Keywords: Trends; Debates; Decision Choices and Conditions; Higher Education; Teaching; Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Value Creation; Health Industry

fall 1975
Article

Analysis and Control of Nurse Staffing

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Health Industry

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July–September 2023
Article

A Systematic Review of Respect Between Acute Care Nurses and Physicians

By: Derrick P. Bransby, Anna T. Mayo, Matthew A. Cronin, Katie Park and Christina Yuan

Background: Interprofessional collaboration between nurses and physicians has become an essential part of patient care, which, when lacking, can lead to well-known challenges. One possible explanation for ineffective nurse–physician collaboration is a lack of... View Details

Keywords: Relationships; Status and Position; Cooperation; Attitudes; Behavior; Outcome or Result; Health Industry

2006
Case

Empowering Nurses at University College London Hospitals

By: Julie Battilana, A.-M., Cagna, T., D'Aunno and M.J., Gilmartin

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Employee Relationship Management; London

June 2006
Article

Operational Failures and Interruptions in Hospital Nursing

By: A. L. Tucker and S. Spear

Keywords: Operations; Failure; Health; Health Industry

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June 1992
Teaching Note

Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

1984
Article

Return to Nursing Home Investment: Issues for Public Policy

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Christine E. Bishop

Keywords: Health; Investment; Policy; Health Industry

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March 2023 (Revised September 2023)
Case

Emory Healthcare on the Front Lines of the Nursing Workforce Crisis

By: Susanna Gallani, Karen L. Sedatole and Sarah Mehta

April 2004
Article

The Impact of Operational Failures on Hospital Nurses and Their Patients

By: A. L. Tucker

Keywords: Operations; Failure; Health

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2002
Article

Managing Routine Exceptions: A Model of Nurse Problem Solving Behavior

By: A. L. Tucker and Amy C. Edmondson

Keywords: Management; Health; Problems and Challenges; Behavior

Article

Incidence and Preventability of Adverse Drug Events in the Nursing Home Setting

By: J. H. Gurwitz, T. S. Field, J. Avorn, D. McCormick, S. Jain, M. Eckler, M. Benser, A. Edmondson and D. W. Bates

Keywords: Health; Health Industry

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2020
Working Paper

Vertical Integration of Healthcare Providers Increases Self-Referrals and Can Reduce Downstream Competition: The Case of Hospital-Owned Skilled Nursing Facilities

By: David Cutler, Leemore S. Dafny, David Grabowski, Steven S. Lee and Christopher Ody

The landscape of the U.S. healthcare industry is changing dramatically as healthcare providers expand both within and across markets. While federal antitrust agencies have mounted several challenges to same-market combinations, they have not challenged any... View Details

Keywords: Antitrust; Health Care and Treatment; Vertical Integration; Organizational Structure; Competition; Health Industry; United States

2014
Other Article

A Place for Emotion: How Space Structures Nurse-Parent Interactions in West African Pediatric Wards

By: Ryann Manning

Keywords: Healthcare; Emotion; Emotions; Nursing; Africa; Organization; Hospital; Space; Place; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Culture; Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Health Industry; Africa

February 2017 (Revised February 2021)
Case

Hebrew SeniorLife: Next Steps

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Olivia Hull

The CEO of Hebrew SeniorLife is contemplating how to scale his highly successful but asset-intensive continuing care retirement community for elders. Among the strategies he is considering is an expansion to China; virtual web-based care; providing continuing care in... View Details

Keywords: Continuing Care; Nursing Home; Rehabilitation; Assisted Living; Elder Care; Entrepreneurial Management; Health Care and Treatment; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; United States

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