title: System nets economic plusses.
abstract: How will multi-hospital systems facilitate medical care in the future? How do administrators of such systems integrate the important components and personnel to achieve well-coordinated care for individual patients? In the following article, E. Wynn Presson, president and CEO of Health Midwest, a regional health care system involving 10 counties around metropolitan Kansas City, Kan., discusses the process of building and maintaining a regional care system of 40 health care entities including 11 hospitals and 2,350 licensed acute care beds.
authors: Health Midwest, KS.
authors: E W
authors: EW
authors: Presson
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006801:Humans; D007615:Kansas; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010067:Ownership; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012380:Role