title: Reshaping the healthcare delivery network.
abstract: Challenges that most healthcare organizations face today include: falling bond ratings and the scarcity of capital resources; delivery of consistently high-quality care despite budget cuts; changes in payer mix due to unemployed patients, the uninsured, early retirees, and an increase in patients postponing care; increasing competition from nontraditional competitors; the need to prepare for healthcare reform without knowing what form it will take.
authors.affiliation: DMI Transitions, Brecksville, OH, USA. ronschmidt@dmitransitions.com
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Gene
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Altus
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004469:Economics, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006739:Hospital Administration; D014481:United States