Search PubMed⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

D H Freed

Publications and source records attributed to D H Freed.

33 records · Page 2Linked to original sources
PubMed1992

Cost cutting for hospitals: a heuristic approach.

This article has suggested a model that can provide some consistency and order as hospital managers attempt to find reliable yet palatable means of cutting their institutions' costs. Like any model, it is only as sensitive as the manner in which it is applied; it is a guide rather than a substitute for clear thinking by management. Used in context, however, the model encourages clear thinking when hospital managers might otherwise be tempted to dispose of facts that do not conform to their own theories or, alternatively, find isolated budget solutions that are simple and neat but suboptimal. In the final analysis, thinking clearly is the ultimate model when the order comes to cut costs.

Budgets↗
PubMed1992

Strategic facilities planning from the top down.

An institution's strategic plan can serve as a blueprint on which to build department goals. The authors discuss how they developed a master facilities plan that was closely coordinated with their institution's strategic plan.

Academic Medical Centers↗
PubMed1992

The hospital manager as enthusiast.

The "race" in hospital operations is increasingly going not to the swift but to those who finish. In this environment, leadership may soon outpace management as the vehicle that inspires slower hospitals over the finish line. The manager as enthusiast is becoming a necessity rather than an option as regards survival of the hospital. Fortunately, hospital managers need only look--really look--inside themselves and their institutions to find the requisite energy for this transformation.

Hospital Administrators↗
PubMed1990

Answers inside.

Explore the source record for details and available documents.

Efficiency↗
PubMedDate not supplied

Why product standardization fails.

In the attempt to introduce product standardization, many materiel managers fail to take stock of the forces that work against its success. Personal attitudes of clinical staff and others favoring freedom, individualism and decisions based on patient care rather than the bottom line, must be considered if product standardization is to take hold. It is also the responsibility of hospital administration to acknowledge product standards as part of the overall mission of the hospital. Product standardization that takes a more interpersonal perspective can succeed.

Cost Control↗
PubMedDate not supplied

Dimensions of offsite distribution: a case study.

How does Support Services maintain user confidence while moving the laundry and central supply departments offsite? That challenge faced The Mont Sinai Medical Center, a 1112-bed Manhattan hospital and medical school, as it prepared for a 5-year, $488 million major modernization program, set to begin in the summer of 1985. Users were openly mistrustful of relocating two departments which had provided responsive on-site services to the hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine since their incorporation in 1852 and 1963, respectively. Yet, the transition to temporary offsite facilities was structured, and generated sufficient user confidence to facilitate a planned move to permanent, state-of-the-art facilities and systems.

Hospital Administration↗