Methods: Panel members will focus on a range of knowledge and skills that social work healthcare managers must perform competently within a changing environment of competing demands and values. As healthcare managers, we must function in an environment of higher expectations for accountability and financial performance demands, increased competition, and diminishing resources. Each panelist will provide an overview of specific management issues and strategies to help social workers be more effective managers.
Results: Panel presentations will inform attendees of: (1) trends, barriers and opportunities for social workers and strategies to increase our presence and influence in the healthcare arena; (2) the changing demands in healthcare delivery and detail leadership and programs that promote innovative interventions that meet the patients’ biopsychosocial needs; (3) specific issues facing African American social work managers; and (4) means to utilize program evaluation as a tool for utilization review, continuous quality improvement and protecting existing programs (5) systems implementation issues for meeting the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) confidentiality requirements.
Conclusions: The panel will provide social workers an opportunity to focus on specific management issues, operating within the framework of social work values, that can enhance organizational vision, strategic planning, and program effectiveness.
Learning Objectives: Objectives: This five-member panel will focus on the challenges facing social work managers in healthcare and will identify strategies for social work inclusion in the rapidly changing healthcare environment.
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
Disclosure not received
Relationship: Not Received.