title: Parker discusses vision. Interview by Donald E. L. Johnson.
abstract: What special challenges face a major multi-hospital network as it enters the 1990s, offering care to diverse communities? What problems will its CEO have to deal with in an era of cutbacks and change? Scott S. Parker, president and chief executive officer of Intermountain Health Care, Inc., (IHC), a not-for-profit health care delivery system of 24 hospitals in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, plus an array of other medical facilities and services, discusses the challenges and accomplishments with Donald E. L. Johnson, publisher of Health Care Strategic Management. In the following interview, he talks about strategies and opportunities among many other topics.
authors: Intermountain Health Care.
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authors: Parker
mesh_terms: D005544:Forecasting; D007061:Idaho; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010934:Planning Techniques; D011357:Product Line Management / Q000639:trends; D014589:Utah; D014959:Wyoming