Read the summaries for the Weeks 4, 6, and 7 case studies of one other learner for each week. Compare ideas and evaluations to your case study summaries. Write a short, 2–3 page comparative analysis of your four case studies and their learner(s)’ case studies for each of those weeks. Include in your comparative analysis the similarities in their ideas, the differences, and any new ideas that came to your mind after reviewing the other case summaries. Include in your write up one APA compliant table of some kind that provides your comparison in a visual manner. Be sure to use APA properly when you number and title your table.
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THE MIDWESTERN MEDICAL GROUP’S1 INTEGRATION JOURNEY
Forthcoming in P. Ginter, L. Swayne, and J. Duncan, The Strategic Management of Health Care
Organizations, Fifth Edition, New York: Blackwell Business, 2005. (Current draft 10-7-04)
INTRODUCTION
On a snowy January evening, the MMG management team held a retirement party for Judith
Olsen, president of Midwestern Medical Group (MMG). During the evening, Olsen reflected
back on the years she had worked for the MMG with mixed feelings about her experience.
During their eight-year integration journey within the Midwestern Health System (Midwestern),
the MMG management team experienced many encouraging moments, achievements, and
successes as well as many struggles, disappointments, and conflicts. She was scheduled to meet
with the board chair the next day to talk about the major issues her successor would need to
address as president of the MMG. Knowing this might be her last contribution to the MMG
before she retired, Olsen wanted to provide the board chair with helpful advice to pass on to her
successor.
This case focuses on the historical events in the MMG’s integration journey that Olsen pondered
as she thought about what to say in that meeting.
BACKGROUND
Midwestern Health System (Midwestern) was established in July 1994 through the merger of
Health Systems Corporation and Midwest Health Plan, making it the largest healthcare
organization in its region. Health Systems contributed hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, a home
health agenc
Salix Pharmaceuticals, Inc: Succeeding on the road less traveled by Leonidas Kyriazis and Linda E.
Swayne. Reproduced with permission of Linda E. Swayne in the format post in a course management
system.
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Salix Pharn1aceuticals,
Inc: Succeeding
on the Road
Less Traveled
“I started having problems with stomach pain and severe diarrhea,”
explained Rex Young, a 37-year-old public high school teacher
from Riverside, California. “Each day I was making between 25
and 35 trips to the bathroom. This just was not conducive to
teaching in high school and because I didn’t know what it was,
I got dehydrated and ended up in the hospital. I was diagnosed
with ulcerative colitis. Dr. Vinod Mishra, my gastroenterologist,
first prescribed a treatment of prednisone (steroid) to fight the
inflammation, along with a drug called ASACOL. The prednisone
didn’t work very well at all. I had a bad reaction to it and had
to quit after four days. The ASACOL seemed to work OK for the
first year. However, at the end of the year, I had another very
severe exacerbation. I was facing radical surgery – a colostomy –
that would remove my lower intestine.
This case was written by Leonidas Kyriazis, MBA, and Linda E. Swayne, PhD, both
from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. It is intended as a basis for
classroom discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling
of an administrative situation. Used with permission from Leo Kyriazis.
SAliX PHARMACEUTICAlS, INC.
“My doctor asked me if I wanted to try a new drug he had just heard about called
COLAZAL from Salix Pharmaceuticals. I was willing to try anything to avoid the
surgery and all the unpleasantness of a colostomy for the rest of my life. COLAZAL
was amazing! I saw results within the first two weeks and at the end of the first
month I was pretty much back to normal. I have been taking COLAZAL now
for about two and a half years, in a regimen of 6 pills per day and I am in com
plete remission. I had a sigm
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