Metrics help rural hospitals achieve world-class performance.

نویسنده

  • Scott W Goodspeed
چکیده

This article describes the emerging trend of using metrics in rural hospitals to achieve world-class performance. This trend is a response to the fact that rural hospitals have small patient volumes yet must maintain a profit margin in order to fulfill their mission to the community. The conceptual idea for this article is based largely on Robert Kaplan and David Norton's Balanced Scorecard articles in the Harvard Business Review. The ideas also come from the experiences of the 60-plus rural hospitals that are using the Balanced Scorecard and their implementation of metrics to influence performance and behavior. It is indeed possible for rural hospitals to meet and exceed the unique needs of patients and physicians (customers), to achieve healthy profit margins, and to be the rural hospital of choice that employees are proud to work for.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal for healthcare quality : official publication of the National Association for Healthcare Quality

دوره 28 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006