title: Are we squeezing the life out of hospitals?
abstract: A decade of cost cutting has left many hospitals in financial disarray, yet others are thriving amid the forces of change. Their creative responses are blueprints for survival.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gerson
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vernarec
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000639:trends; D004465:Economic Competition; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000639:trends*; D006271:Health Facility Closure; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000592:standards*; D007324:Institutional Management Teams / Q000592:standards; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D009726:Nurses / Q000600:supply & distribution; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States