Nursing: a revenue center, not a cost center.
Given today's healthcare environment of increased and changing regulatory restrictions, cost containment and quality-of-care issues, as well as the nursing shortage and increased severity of illness of patients, an automated acuity system has immense value to both the nursing department and hospital administration.
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