title: Cost-consciousness prompts three-phase education service.
abstract: During a one and one-half year period, an acute care community hospital implemented a patient education service, a major goal of which is to provide programs that have a revenue-generating potential. The three distinct phases of the plan--research and development, implementation and evaluation, and expansion--are described herein.
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003363:Cost Control; D006266:Health Education; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000458:organization & administration; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011367:Professional Staff Committees