Ideas outpace reality of hospital strategic planning, but do they pinpoint the future?

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In the 1980s hospital strategic planning, at the least, will cover environmental assessment, internal assessment of institutional goals and values, and program evaluation. There are many viewpoints and theories on the best approaches to meeting these planning needs.

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Long-term care policy must change to fit new geriatric care needs

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Hospitals need to start planning new and innovative geriatric care policies that take into account independent and home care, preventive medicine, public financing for medical services and development of professional geriatric care standards.

Care and treatment, Aged, Elderly, Geriatrics, Long-term care of the sick, Long term care, Long-term care facilities, Long term care facilities

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Emerging malpractice trends: expansion of hospital liability continues

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The hospital industry is carefully watching malpractice trends that hold the hospital, as corporate employer, responsible for physician malpractice. It is hoped that the 1980s won't perpetuate the malpractice crisis of the 1970s.

Offices & clinics of medical doctors, Laws, regulations and rules, Forecasts and trends, Physicians, Malpractice, Medical malpractice, Tort liability, Tort liability of hospitals

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