New planning models: reasons for transforming hospital go beyond financials

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Hospital administrators expect patient-centered care to produce savings after an initial outlay for remodeling facilities and training personnel, according to a survey of hospital CEOs. Savings should result because each unit will have greater responsibility for its own costs and also from elimination of middle managers. Nevertheless, most CEOs stress that they wish to change because hospital care should be centered around the needs of the patient. Examples are cited of ways in which individual hospital executives are handling the transition to patient-centered care.

Cover Story, Surveys, Hospital administration, Hospital administrators

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Survey: equipment budgets up; use in outpatient areas growing

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Asurvey commissioned by Hospitals magazine and the Linc Group Inc found that 57% of US hospitals have increased their 1992 budgets for capital equipment. The most popular equipment to be purchased in the coming year included patient monitors, automated laboratory equipment and radiography and fluoroscopy rooms; imaging equipment headed the list of equipment hospitals intended to lease. Hospitals plan to use the budget increases to replace or supplement existing equipment, rather than to begin new lines of service.

Purchasing, Medical equipment

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Reach out and heal someone; health care workers aid beleaguered hospitals in former Soviet republics

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The American Hospital Assn (AHA) has initiated a relief effort, called 'World Hospital,' to supply Russian hospitals with about $10 million worth of medical supplies, pharmaceuticals and hospital equipment. Over 500 US hospitals have donated about 400 tons of supplies to the former Soviet Union. The AHA is also responsible for setting up a number of medical relief organizations that provide assistance to foreign countries struggling to provide basic medical care to their people.

Health aspects, International aspects, Social policy, Russia, Volunteer workers in hospitals, Hospital volunteers, American Hospital Association

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