A report from a community health care planner.
Community health care planning must take into account a variety of pre-existing and sometimes very powerful interests--such as those of hospital administrators, physicians and patients--which may be in conflict. Not only that, the planning process itself is one that can engender strong feelings and create new problems.
D003144:Communication Barriers; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006755:Hospital Shared Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D011367:Professional Staff Committees / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States