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Restructuring improves hospital competitiveness.

Healthcare financial management : journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association, 1992
The operational evolution of hospitals, driven by advances in technology and clinical research and an increased emphasis on clinical specialization, has resulted in complex and fragmented operational service structures. Hospitals willing to critically evaluate and change their operating structures not only can increase productivity and decrease ...
J G, Lee, R W, Clarke
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Restructuring Hospital-Physician Relationships for Future Success

Frontiers of Health Services Management, 2003
Integrating physicians into the Healthfirst administration through employment sowed seeds of mutual understanding among these two groups that would benefit the system immeasurably over the next several years. The immediate future, however, saw only cultural upheaval between our hospitals and newly employed physicians, hospitals and nonemployed ...
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Market Restructuring and Pricing in the Hospital Industry

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
This paper examines the diagnosis related group-level (DRG) price effects of recent hospital mergers and acquisitions that occurred in Ohio and California. Empirical results indicate that hospital mergers and acquisitions increase prices at the DRG level. Further, price increases are greater in DRGs where the merging hospitals gained substantial market
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Hospital Restructuring and the Epidemiology of Hospital Utilization

Medical Care, 1997
The author highlights changes in hospital utilization that have occurred in association with restructuring of Ontario hospitals. The basic features of the epidemiology of hospital utilization described link the analysis of the organizational and structural components of hospitals with a more comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of their ...
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Hospital Diversification: Corporate Restructuring as a Survival Strategy

Hospital Topics, 1987
Corporate restructuring of hospitals as a strategy for survival and continued success is described. Health-care providers' traditional orientation has been toward service and mission; now, profits and new markets in health care must be considered also. To remain competitive, hospitals must be prepared to act rapidly on opportunities.
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Hospital restructuring in Ontario.

Leadership in health services = Leadership dans les services de sante, 1996
Ontario's healthcare services are only loosely organized into a "system." Attempts at reform before 1995 were scattered and uncoordinated. Following the landslide victory of the Conservative government under Mike Harris, however, an Ontario Health Services Restructuring Commission has assumed responsibility for all reform.
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The Strategic Restructuring of US Hospitals

Journal of Management in Medicine, 1993
The US health care industry has experienced dramatic economic, social and technological changes since the late 1970s. These changes have reshaped the structure and function of inpatient hospitals and continue to drive their evolution into the 1990s. Examines the causes and effects of these changes on major for‐profit hospital firms, and suggests viable
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Hospitals dismantle elaborate corporate restructurings.

Hospitals, 1991
Consultants were busy helping hospitals build complex financial structures to take advantage of the economic trends of the 1980s. Now many hospitals are quietly reversing those moves.
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Hospital corporate restructuring gains widespread acceptance.

Trustee : the journal for hospital governing boards, 1987
Corporate restructuring is becoming an increasingly popular strategy for hospitals faced with declining revenues, new regulatory incentives or expanded market objectives. This article, based on data from two American Hospital Association surveys of hospital governing boards, explores the corporate restructuring trend in hospitals and considers its ...
J A, Alexander, J E, Orlikoff
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Surviving Hospital Restructuring

JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 2001
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