Integration of hospitals, services is more complex than consolidation.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to J M Spallina.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.
Financial managers faced with the task of recommending whether diversified services should be dissolved or continued need a logical means of analysis. Their evaluations should consider not only the venture's financial results but concerns specific to the hospital and its market, as well as related social and legal issues. Failure analysis, a function of business portfolio management, helps put these variables in perspective and provides a framework for decision making.
Integrated delivery systems continue to form through hospital mergers. The basis for the mergers and systems development as presented to hospital boards and the community is to lower health care costs, and improve quality and access.
Explore the source record for details and available documents.