The hospital response.
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Contract Services↗
Biomedical subjects
J Herrmann
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The GE strategy. Every employee at GE has the same flexible, option-loaded health plan.
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Health Benefit Plans, Employee↗
America's most wanted.
Too few nurses, X-ray techs, lab technicians, ER specialists, trauma nurses, rural physicians.... The recent military call-up illuminated the problem that had been skirted for years.
Humans↗
What's ahead for outpatient reimbursement.
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Ambulatory Care↗
Healing more than the body.
Louisville has become the Mecca for new and classical theater, growing far beyond mere regionalism, with continual support from Humana.
Community-Institutional Relations↗
Canadian nurses head South.
What's going on with the Canadian Health System? Many nursing graduates are moving to the U.S. Example: one hospital in Texas is now operating with a 25 percent Canadian nursing staff.
Canada↗
Investor-owned hospitals respond to Andrew's devastation.
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Disasters↗
Hospitals continue struggle with hurricane aftermath.
Hurricane Andrew hit south Florida at 3:00 a.m. on Monday, August 24, 1992. At its peak, its winds reached 164 miles-per-hour, and the resulting destruction of life and property has been well documented. However, there are stories yet to tell; stories that are not really unfamiliar to readers who know about health professionals' commitment to their patients and their professions. One individual, Frank V. LeBlanc, a spokesman for the Louisiana Hospital Association, said that the press seldom if ever follows up with coverage of what physicians, nurses, medical technicians, practical nurses, etc., accomplish during and after storms and other disasters. "They take our industry's commitment for granted," he said, "as though police and firemen, doctors, nurses and teachers are all expected to work day and night without sleep or additional pay. I think," he added, "that our society has taken advantage of these people and their deep sense of duty." What follows are a few need-to-be-told stories beyond what has already been reported, and additional to our own coverage in the September/October 1992 issue of Health Systems REVIEW, which was done almost while our printer was inking the presses. The first of a three-part article is an interview with Tony Degina of Deering Hospital, Miami, which was all but brought down by the hurricane. Next, the story of the hardest hit hospitals on the Louisiana coast. Finally, part three focuses on the September Pacific hurricane, Iniki, that ravaged the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
Community-Institutional Relations↗
Rural health system reform.
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Comprehensive Health Care↗
Blue Cross of California goes for the gold--WellPoint Health Networks, Inc.
After a half-dozen years of bold, successful restructuring, a once nearly bankrupt Blue Cross of California launches a for-profit managed care organization.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Plans↗
States' perspectives on health reform.
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Health Care Reform↗
Health care reform--focus on the Hill.
The U.S. Congress is considering six major health care reform alternatives. Here is a close look at the plans and what their authors are saying about them.
Health Care Reform↗
A tale of two cities: health system reform in Little Rock and Houston.
Health care providers are not waiting for federal legislation to pass Congress before getting on with the business of reforming health care. Here is a close-up of provider-generated health system reform in a large and a small city where things are happening in the marketplace.
Arkansas↗
The new Mayo Clinic.
One of our most distinguished physician-led medical institutions prepares for health care delivery in the 21st Century, embracing an aggressive strategy of vertical integration that is working. Here is a story that illustrates that market forces are the consumers' best friend.
Comprehensive Health Care↗
One size doesn't fit all.
As a company changes in scope and character, so must its information systems. Here is a case of a multitude of risks and gains by a large hospital supplier that was spun off from its parent and decided to convert from the world of a large mainframe computer to networked personal computers.
Computers, Mainframe↗
Health insurance purchasing alliances in Florida and California.
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California↗
Trends in consolidation.
The big news of '94 was not the rise and fall of government-led health reform, it was hospital system integration, mergers and acquisitions. Here is the how, who and why of both the non-profit and investor-owned sectors and some educated guesses at what is yet to come.
Health Facility Merger↗