title: Leveraging case-mix data at Melrose-Wakefield.
abstract: Melrose-Wakefield Hospital in Melrose, Mass., is tripling space in its operating rooms, expanding ancillary services and staging areas for ambulatory patients and totally renovating its maternity section. These are healthy signs at a time when many hospitals are experiencing financial problems.
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006752:Hospital Planning; D008404:Massachusetts