Cost containment begins at the top.
Cost containment must be a policy decision made and closely monitored by the governing board. This report, incorporating suggestions made by participants in the Second Annual AHA Conference on Hospital Governance, focuses on five aspects of the board's responsibility: organizing for cost containment, keeping informed, challenging the administration and the medical staff to do the job, supporting the staff, and serving as public spokesmen on hospital cost containment.
D003363:Cost Control; D006075:Governing Board; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006761:Hospitals; D011641:Public Relations; D014481:United States