title: Maximizing internal opportunities for healthcare facilities facing a managed-care environment.
abstract: The primary theme of this article concerns the pressures on healthcare facilities to become efficient utilizers of their existing resources. This acute need for efficiency has been extremely obvious since the changing reimbursement patterns of managed care have proliferated across the nation.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gillespie
mesh_terms: D017046:Cost Savings; D004465:Economic Competition; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005375:Financial Audit; D006295:Health Resources; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D017721:Hospital Costs; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D011357:Product Line Management / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States