Health care strategic management
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Cardiac services have been an area of phenomenal growth in recent years. In today's hospital environment of declining utilization and shorter lengths of stay, these services appear to offer hope for filling empty acute care beds. This article reviews the four major reasons for offering cardiac services, examines the evolving marketplace, and predicts the future practice of cardiology.
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Health Care Strateg Manage · Mar 1984
The missing links between planning and budgeting. Keys to survival in an era of entrepreneurialism.
For hospitals to survive the challenges of their turbulent environment, they must build stronger links between their planning and budgeting processes. Hospitals have traditionally experienced a gap between their long-range plans and short-range budgets. This article examines the scope, nature, and causes of this gap; clarifies the need to bridge this gap; and then discusses three major initiatives (missing links) to bridge the gap. Implications of these missing links for the hospital's board, physicians, managers, and systems are also described.