title: The hospital as a business: suspect or sensible?
abstract: The question of the extent to which a hospital should be operated as a business has had greater significance in recent years as financial pressures on hospitals have increased. To a large degree, the controversy surrounds the hospital's role in the community and its responsibilities to the public.
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D005376:Financial Management; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000458:organization & administration; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011639:Public Opinion; D014481:United States