Collaborative efforts enhance program development. Interview by Donald E.L. Johnson.

Abstract

Alan Weinstein, a 26-year health care industry and hospital association veteran and president of Premier Hospitals Alliance Inc. since 1983, talks in his interview with HCSM's editor and publisher, Donald E.L. Johnson, about collaboration, managed competition, managed care and new and old Premier programs. In addition, he explains how the Westchester, Ill., alliance reviews its 70 programs and decides when to drop those that are not in great demand or have completed their life cycles. Premier is a cooperative owned by 50 major nonprofit teaching and research hospitals and systems located in 42 cities nationwide.