title: Building excellence in an academic medical center.
abstract: Providing cost-effective care while maintaining an academic medical center's high standards of excellence in the era of managed care is a challenge. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital's (RWJUH) success in meeting this challenge is accomplished, in part, through a comprehensive effort in re-engineering and restructuring that has enabled us to remain agile. As a result, physicians, nurses, technicians, and other health care professionals can devote more of their time to working directly with patients and their families. In addition, we've developed very efficacious systems that enable us to continue to provide measurable quality care in the most cost-effective manner.
authors.affiliation: Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, USA.
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Holzberg
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*