title: Competition is no barrier to cooperation for children's hospital groups.
abstract: While many think the competitive nature of modern health care may prevent rival organizations from working together, two groups that specialize in children's hospitals have proven them wrong by joining forces to benchmark on bed control. The National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions, an association of 150 children's hospitals based in Alexandria, VA, has started a benchmarking project with Medical Management Planning, a Bainbridge Island, WA-based benchmarking and consulting company.
mesh_terms: D001509:Bed Occupancy; D019985:Benchmarking; D002648:Child; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004465:Economic Competition; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D012954:Societies, Hospital; D014481:United States