Integration reconsidered: five strategies for improved performance.
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چکیده
The year 1998 has been a terrible one for large complex health enterprises. The year brought well-publicized crashes of former darlings of Wall Street-Columbia/HCA, MedPartners, PhyCor, and Oxford Health Plans. There were also less well publicized financial crises in the nonprofit world -Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the East Coast's most aggressive “system," Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation (AHERF), and unprecedented economic losses for the oldest and largest integrated delivery system in the nation, the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Plans, which experienced more than $420 million in operating losses over the past 18 months.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The healthcare strategist
دوره 2 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1998