What's behind the changes in today's hospital services?
Diversification and corporate restructuring have captured the imagination of more than a few hospital boards recently. In large measure, this movement can be explained as the attempt of health care facilities to cope with two seemingly contradictory sets of forces: one pulling patients out of the hospital and the other making patients who are placed in the hospital more dependent on its services.
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