title: Academic health center hospitals: alternative responses to financial stress.
abstract: Academic health center hospitals face challenges to their survival in an increasingly competitive, challenging, and entrepreneurial environment. University hospitals face a number of major stresses and are responding in various ways to ensure their financial viability.
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Sloate
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000191:economics*; D004465:Economic Competition; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000191:economics; D005376:Financial Management; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D008484:Medicaid; D008489:Medical Indigency; D006278:Medicare; D009935:Organizational Affiliation; D012922:Social Change; D014481:United States