New Hampshire: hospitals, physicians, businesses converge to restructure health care
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Health care providers and businesses are joining together to provide communities in New Hampshire with services and high-technology equipment that would be costly and difficult to provide without a spirit of cooperation. For example, sharing of resources has allowed a consortium of seven hospitals to share three mobile MRI units that rotate among the facilities. A mobile lithotripsy service is available to another consortium of 10 hospitals. Some hospitals have allied with Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital to provide cancer treatment to rural patients. Hospitals have overcome control and economic problems to provide better patient care.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1993
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Prepared for uncertainty: hospital leaders see tight finances and the need to develop new initiatives
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A 'Hospitals & Health Networks' magazine and Premier Hospitals Alliance co-sponsored survey of hospital administrators showed that the main health care reform concerns of administrators are the establishment of clinical guidelines, the addition of primary care physicians and the establishment of physician/hospital organizations. Unfortunately, survey respondents feel the least prepared for reform in these areas. Some hospitals are initiating changes, but many are finding changes to be difficult and slow in developing.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
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Year: 1993
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Learning to survive: continuing education is helping health care managers thrive in today's managed care-driven environment
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Hospitals are offering continuing education classes to keep managers abreast of health care reform and the changing marketplace. For example, Henry Ford Health System chooses 45 employees and teaches them about its system using interviews with senior officials at the organization. Voluntary Hospitals of America Inc. has developed an in-house educational program on implementing best practices and a separate satellite network program for educating its top executives. Additional programs are described.
Publication Name: Hospitals & Health Networks
Subject: Health care industry
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Year: 1995
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