Is the risk of failure increasing in the hospital industry?
Is the risk of failure increasing? According to a survey of U.S. hospitals conducted by Touche Ross & Co., 46 percent of the hospitals responding to the survey say their institutions are at risk of failure within the next five years, an increase of 3 percent from two years ago. Hospitals in all bed size categories express a greater risk of failure in 1988 than in 1986, and the smaller hospitals, which represented the largest portion at risk of failure in 1986, feel even more at risk now. Clearly, the health-care industry is moving into a period of transition that will affect the very structure of health-care delivery.
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