title: Environmental assessment helps in planning process.
abstract: The AHA's planning document, which identifies factors that affect the hospital industry on a nationwide basis, can be a useful reference for individual hospitals in identifying similar factors that affect them on the local level.
mesh_terms: D000573:American Hospital Association; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D004777:Environment; D006280:Health Workforce; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000639:trends*; D006752:Hospital Planning; D011153:Population; D014481:United States