title: The challenge of funding hospital employee retirement benefits.
abstract: Hospitals face a difficult challenge in meeting existing benefits obligations to employees while maintaining financial reserves to invest in electronic health records, quality improvement, and more effective integration of care. Although they may no longer be able to afford offering employees defined-benefit plans, many forward-looking healthcare organizations are finding ways to keep their commitments without sacrificing the balance sheet. One such organization is Scripps Health in San Diego, whose innovative benefits packages have contributed to its being ranked 56th in Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list in 2012.
authors.affiliation: chris@romanink.net
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Román
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003363:Cost Control; D017047:Cost Sharing; D005382:Financing, Personal / Q000191:economics; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007449:Investments / Q000191:economics; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D016134:Organizational Policy; D010415:Pensions; D012179:Retirement / Q000191:economics*; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States