title: Creative responses needed in controlled environment.
abstract: Faced with an increasingly regulatory environment, hospitals must find innovative ways by which, first, to survive and, then, to respond constructively to externally applied constraints. Decertification of beds and a move to ambulatory care programs are only two of many possible responses. The key to success will be the measure of cooperation between health care providers, insurers, and government.
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D002567:Certificate of Need; D005161:Facility Regulation and Control; D005376:Financial Management; D006271:Health Facility Closure; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000639:trends*; D006752:Hospital Planning; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement; D010820:Physicians / Q000600:supply & distribution; D014481:United States