Healthcare systems' newest balancing act: 'Doing more with less.'.
Many hospital systems are caught in a bind. They know it's important to spend money to achieve the integration of their organizations, and those bills can be especially high in a system's start-up years. But they're also feeling the heat to reduce expenditures for overhead and system wide staff to help individual hospitals in the current difficult economic environment.
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