Survey search: the hospital as employer.
Employee pay and benefits have historically comprised at least half of hospitals' total operating expenses. The findings of two recent surveys of U.S. hospitals offer insights into what today's institutions (nonprofit and proprietary) are doing to contain employee costs through health benefits management and expansion of the role of the senior human resources executive.
D003363:Cost Control; D003625:Data Collection; D004651:Employment; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee; D006740:Hospital Administrators / Q000191:economics; D007348:Insurance, Health; D010557:Personnel Administration, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States