Informed, involved employees aid hospital's cost control program.
A community hospital's two-part program emphasizes employees' responsibilities and participation in cost control. First, department managers were made more aware of and knowledgeable about costs and techniques for control through use of an AHA educational program. Second, an employee committee studies cost problems and recommends solutions that have effected substantial savings.
D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000193:education; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000191:economics*; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006764:Hospitals, Community; D009825:Oklahoma; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000193:education*