title: Reducing excess hospital capacity is a tough but necessary job.
abstract: Developing and implementing an effective program to reduce excess hospital capacity is an extremely difficult and complex task. But it is clearly a logical means to contain health care costs and to develope a cost-effective health system.
mesh_terms: D005161:Facility Regulation and Control; D006271:Health Facility Closure; D006273:Health Facility Merger; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006755:Hospital Shared Services; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States