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Public Hospitals and Managed Care

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1994
Managed health care is used increasingly in the public and private sectors to control rising health-care costs and to assure quality of care. While current proposals for health-care reform promote even wider application of managed care as a component in cost control, the formal use of managed care by public hospitals has not been fully explored.
R H, Curry   +4 more
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Governing Public Hospitals

2015
Acute care public hospitals are run in different ways in differently structured health systems, reflecting national circumstances. However, hospital reform and organizational realignment in most health systems typically involve three interconnected factors: (1) technological improvement in clinical and infor- mation capacity; (2) growing patient ...
Richard B. Saltman, Antonio Durán
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Public Policy Regarding Specialty Hospitals

Medical Care Research and Review, 2008
Why do we need “public policy” regarding specialty hospitals? What is the rationale for government involvement in decisions by the private sector to invest in specialty hospitals? Two possibilities are reduced access to services primarily by the uninsured (a fairness concern) and changes in the types of patients receiving care resulting from poor ...
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Hospital Chaplaincy as Public Ministry

Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, 1989
The author describer "public ministry" and via a case study, articulated the public ministry of the hospital chaplain in five categories: in the service of health; as cultural anthropologist; as negotiator of world views; as stimulator of ethical deliberation; and as stimulator of spiritual growth.
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