title: Top 100 hospitals. Reaching for the clouds.
abstract: The nation's Top 100 hospitals combine razor's edge management with an ability to take a marketplace punch and maintain their balance sheet. And more often than not, they're found in markets highly influenced by managed care and for-profit healthcare companies.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Morrissey
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D004465:Economic Competition; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005375:Financial Audit; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity; D006769:Hospitals, General / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000592:standards; D008330:Management Audit; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000592:standards; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States