title: Hospitals' use of contract management approaches 50%.
abstract: Hospital CEOs are evenly split on the issue of whether to contract with outside firms to manage departments in their facilities. Although a small majority have never used contractors, the number of executives employing contract managers is growing--and executives are pleased with the results. These are just a few of the results of Hospitals' recent survey of 1,100 hospital CEOs nationwide. The survey asked executives for information about their hospitals' use of more than 40 specific services, including "hotel," business and clinical contract services. Our survey is one of only a few major studies ever undertaken that have asked hospitals themselves about their use of contract-management services. And what were they looking for? Interestingly, not economic advantage but specialized expertise.
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authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Souhrada
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003284:Contract Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003625:Data Collection; D006740:Hospital Administrators / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States