Thinking ahead. Three hospitals demonstrate that you can plan for the future, even if you can't forsee it.
Predicting the future is next to impossible, but that doesn't grant health care administrators a pass at planning for it. How do hospitals build new facilities to anticipate trends that they haven't heard of yet? Here's a look at three hospitals--a rural facility, a new set of operating rooms and a new ED--that are taking the risk.
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