ACHE Announces 2017 Publishing Awards
The winners of the 2017 Edgar C. Hayhow Award are Ginger Azbik, Shivani Gupta, PhD, Nitish Patidar, PhD, and Robert Weech-Maldonado, PhD, for their article "Succession Planning and Financial Performance: Does Competition Matter?" published in the May/June 2016 issue of the Journal of Healthcare Management. Based on the results of a study, Azbik, Gupta, Patidar and Weech-Maldonado discovered a positive relationship between the presence of succession planning and financial performance, which was stronger in competitive markets than in monopolistic markets. The team used a panel design consisting of a national sample of hospitals in the United States for 2006–2010. The results can be used by hospitals to make informed decisions about investing in succession planning programs on the basis of competition in their market.
CPHSJ Researchers Receive SLU Microgrants
Spark Microgrants are a funding mechanism from SLU’s Office of the Vice President for Research to support work that seeks to bring together a new collaboration and/ or to pursue a new opportunity with faculty in different schools and colleges. The following CPHSJ faculty have received a Spark Microgrant:
• Brian Boutwell
• Steven Howard
• Echu Liu
• Enbal Shacham & Travis Loux
• Kimberly Enard
Congratulations to our colleagues!