Tomorrow's hospital
Subtitle: a look to the twenty-first century
By: Eli Ginzberg.
Publisher: Yale University Press; Yale Univerity Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Hospitals -- Economic aspects -- United States; Hospitals -- United States -- Forecasting; Hospitals -- trends -- United States; Hospital Administration -- United States; Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration -- United States; Delivery of Health Care -- trends -- United States
Description: In this authoritative book, the dean of health care analysts discusses the future of American hospitals in the rice of downsizings, mergers, and closings. Eli Ginzberg assesses the different approaches hospitals and their physician staffs have made toward becoming part of an integrated health network, and he explores such trends as the growth of managed-care plans, development of alternative treatment sites for long-term patients, cooperation among community hospitals, and health service management by primary care physicians.
Notes: Includes bibliographiographical references (p. 155-156) and index.