title: Focus on fitness. Hospitals promote their health clubs as another service in care continuum.
abstract: Hospitals and systems are responding to demands by managed-care plans and large employers for wellness programs and other preventive health strategies by building their own multimillion-dollar health clubs, complete with exercise equipment to rival the local gym's.
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authors.lastname: Japsen
mesh_terms: D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000639:trends*; D010809:Physical Fitness; D014481:United States