title: Challenge is redefinition.
abstract: What are the key strategic concerns of a major hospital network? How do the top executives of a group guide administrators of their individual hospitals so that corporate goals are met but autonomy is maintained? In the following interview, Charles N. Martin, Jr., president and chief operating officer of Health Trust Inc., a privately-held hospital formed in September 1987 through an employee stock ownership plan, discusses the particular problems of overseeing a network that includes 87 hospitals in 21 states.
authors: Health Trust Inc.
authors: C N
authors: CN
authors: Martin
mesh_terms: D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States