title: Hospital medical directors, quality of care, and financial returns.
abstract: You are a physician executive working very hard within a hospital on all sorts of medical staff issues and quality of care. You answer to the board. The latter, through its administrators, may still have difficulty documenting the precise value of a full-time physician executive. Your hospital is losing money or not making enough profit for capital expenditures and salary raises. It is considering or will have to consider staff cuts. What can you do that will influence the bottom line, produce a quality image, and quantify your value?
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Tan
mesh_terms: D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D008499:Medical Records; D008486:Physician Executives; D010819:Physician's Role; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States