Managed care and the reorganization of Navy medicine.
Reports completed in 1988 by the Navy Inspector General and a Blue Ribbon Panel evaluated Navy medicine. They found serious problems and expressed dissatisfaction with both the organization and effectiveness of management. These findings formed the basis for a reorganization that was recommended to the Vice Chief of Naval Operations. A program of managed care was proposed to help control costs. The reorganization establishes a partnership between line officers, who will have command over medical facilities, and a more specialized healthcare establishment that will focus on resource planning and providing quality care.
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Graduate Program in Hospital and Health Administration, University of Iowa.
D003363:Cost Control; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D009326:Naval Medicine / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States