Considerations in establishing visiting consultant clinics in rural hospital communities

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Rural health service providers often contract with visiting consultants to provide patients with specialized care, usually by urban-based physicians. A study of visiting consultant clinics in Iowa reveals that increasing numbers of specialists are willing to expand their patient load by acting as consultants in spite of the travel time involved. Also, training opportunities may be offered rural hospital staff, including nurses, technicians and physicians' assistants.

Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Physicians & Surgeons, Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists), Medicine, Contracts, Rural health services, Medical specialties, Medical consultants

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U.S. hospital workforce-to-population ratios by service area

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The healthcare industry is focusing on health maintenance and prevention of a covered population. With the shift in focus, traditional hospital productivity measures must be supplemented with new ratios predicated upon the provision of healthcare as a sum of hospital labor resources divided by the population. An analysis of hospital workforce-to-population ratios by service area is presented.

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Insiders and business directors on hospital boards and strategic change

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Hospital boards are more likely to respond to their changing healthcare environment if they include a greater number of directors with business experience and a healthy number of insider directors as well. The study was based on a survey of 335 Californian hospitals after legislative reform during 1982.

Corporate directors

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