title: 12 cost-cutting measures. Hospitals use creative ideas to gain control of expenses.
abstract: With operating costs ever rising and reimbursements ever tightening, hospitals are looking for ways to cut costs at every turn. The good news is that there are a lot of innovative, imaginative approaches being tried in every area of hospital operations--approaches that don't require massive financial investment, organizational restructuring, or teams of outside consultants. The examples we've found through talking with hospitals across the country are a fair sample of the types of opportunities out there. They range across the entire hospital, from the laboratory to the pharmacy to nursing to waste management to the medical staff to the operating suite. In other words, something for everyone.
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Koska
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hudson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Johnsson
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hard
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Eubanks
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods*; D004526:Efficiency; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D009873:Operating Rooms / Q000191:economics; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000191:economics; D011332:Privatization; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States