Competition and regulation: we need them both.
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Commerce↗
Biomedical subjects
R M Cunningham
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The voluntary spirit is alive and well.
Despite the inroads on the independence of our health care system, a number of forces are demonstating that the voluntary spirit will be around for at least another generation.
Delivery of Health Care↗
Systems: good news and bad news.
The movement of independent units into large systems is going to continue in the hospital field, so the only thing to do is to welcome its benefits and try to modify its hurtful effects.
Delivery of Health Care↗
VE has made a good beginning.
The Voluntary Effort may prove to be the vehicle that will integrate the parochial interests and activities of physicians, institutions, employers, and insurers in property providing services.
Cost Control↗
What you see can help shape what you get.
An institution's image and its values must emerge from unchanging principles of right action that inform an institutional mission whose goals are always clearly visible.
Community Health Services↗
What old people want: more work, less talk.
Older people need money, and for those who are willing, the best way to get it may be to work/Hospitals could take the lead in a movement to help older people find jobs.
Aged↗
Getting the message where it counts.
Recent experience indicates that getting the hospital's story across to the public is not nearly as important as getting the right message to the right people at the right time.
Communication↗
Who's running this place, anyway?
Success in running a hospital doesn't depend on what the CEO's title is or what the organizational structure is. It lies in making sure that everyone understands how the system works.
Communication↗
The way we were--and are.
Today's trustees are more aware of their accountability than were their predecessors 30 years ago/Administrators have shifted their attention from inside to outside the hospital.
Community-Institutional Relations↗
Whither hospitals and associations?
Even though things will continue to change--and at a rapid rate--chances are that the health care system at the end of '80s will look much like it does now.
Economics, Hospital↗
What's ahead for governing boards? Panelists look at the '80s.
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Governing Board↗
Where have all the donors gone?
Hospital philanthropy is not going to vanish, although it may change with the changing society. Some observers believe that the hospital share of the philanthropic dollar may diminish in the future, but there are balancing circumstances suggesting that hospital philanthropy may grow instead of shrinking.
Charities↗
It's a question of ethics.
Ethical considerations must be taken into account whenever a merger of the closing of a facility or service is contemplated/Some guiding principles that can help in making decisions.
Administrative Personnel↗
This is the way it was in the 1970s.
Although regulatory, economic, and other concerns appear to have taken center stage in the health care field in the past decade, the real work of healing and comforting the sick goes on.
Cost Control↗
It's not that kind of a job.
The duties of the corporation president and the hospital administrator are less publicly visible than those of the senator and the physician, but that doesn't make them less valuable.
Allied Health Personnel↗
Keeping them well is good business too. Health promotion.
Many hospitals today regard motivating people to take better care of themselves, and teaching them how, to be as much a part of their mission as repairing the damage when they don't.
Activities of Daily Living↗
The PR war isn't the real war.
Although hospitals are losing the competition for headlines and television news time, public opinion can make itself evident with astonishing force when hospitals are threatened.
Hospital Planning↗
When enough is enough.
The goals of hospitals and hospices are not necessarily incompatible, and hospice care may be an opportunity for hospitals to further humanize their services.
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