title: A cost containment success story.
abstract: At Northwest Hospital in Seattle, cost containment is not a stopgap program but a principle of sound management. Since 1974, an aggressive cost containment effort has enabled the hospital to increase its earnings in the face of declining revenues and to reduce its rates two years in a row.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Hart
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hageman
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000191:economics*; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D014861:Washington