title: Hospitals hand over gift shop operation.
abstract: Many hospitals are re-examining their gift shop operations and concluding that outside experts can do it better. Although only an estimated 30 hospital gift shops are operated by management services companies, interest in outside companies is growing as executives recognize that hospital gift shops can be extremely lucrative, and that hospital gift shop volunteers are an endangered species.
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authors: Altman
mesh_terms: D003284:Contract Services / Q000191:economics*; D006756:Hospital Shops / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006758:Hospital Volunteers; D007182:Income; D014481:United States