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J Greene

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PubMed1992

If you can't stem the tide, try diverting a trickle.

More hospitals are turning to strategies like fast-tracking, which redirects patients with minor illnesses to less intensive sources of care. Still, there's an art to applying triage techniques effectively and relieving the pressure on overburdened emergency departments, which are seeing patient loads steadily rise.

Community Health Centers↗
PubMed1992

Systems geared up for coming reforms.

With some version of reform almost a sure thing somewhere down the road, healthcare systems appear to be well-positioned. Some experts believe various forces--including provider support for regional networks, the bundling of outpatient services, payers seeking capitated contracts and the growing clout of integrated organizations--will come together this decade to put systems at the center of a restructured delivery system.

Delivery of Health Care↗
PubMed1992

Pay incentives for the long haul.

While only a small percentage of the nation's acute-care hospitals use long-range compensation programs to reward executives for their performance, more are turning to the idea. Facilities see it as a way to achieve a variety of objectives--some financial, some not--while improving their ability to retain key executives.

Chief Executive Officers, Hospital↗
PubMed1992

The costs of hospital mergers.

Most hospital mergers are sold to the community as a way to reduce service and staffing duplications, consolidate clinical programs, achieve economies of scale and increase profits to add services. But two new studies on hospitals that merge in small markets indicate such mergers don't always deliver on promised savings because of the costs of new construction and expansion into high-technology services.

Capital Expenditures↗