title: Restructuring care: patient focus is key to innovation.
abstract: Hospitals across the country are busy reconfiguring their delivery systems to improve patient care delivery. In the process, they are overhauling their organizational structures, reaching out to other institutions for input and participation, and embracing local communities. Many hospital executives are also finding that the path itself is at least as interesting and valuable as the end result.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Eubanks
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Hagland
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hudson
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Grayson
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sabatino
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000639:trends*; D015285:Hospital-Patient Relations; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000639:trends; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States