Organizzare la rete ospedaliera aziendale: costruzione e applicazione di un modello teorico

Nowadays, the organizational development of hospital networks is an important topic for policy makers, managers, and researchers, due to the epidemiological and demographical changes, the technological evolution and the concentration of larger caseloads in order to improving specialization. Moreover, since nineties the merger of hospitals is been an important phenomena in Italy. These mergers have contributed to create Hospital Trust with more hospitals, consequently the healthcare managers need logics and tools to analyze and organize their hospital networks. The aim of this paper is to suggest a methodological framework for the analysis of the hospital networks and for change management. This framework is applied to a case study: a Hospital Trust in Lombardy with a network of five hospitals. The implications for management theory and professional practice are discussed.