Biomedical subjects

L Alton

Publications and source records attributed to L Alton.

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PubMed1994

An evaluation of program management: the West Park Hospital experience.

Program management as a way to structure hospital management has been attracting growing interest. Numerous hospitals are introducing it. West Park Hospital was one of the first hospitals to adopt program management in 1991 and mount a rigorous evaluation of the new approach, one which relied on external evaluators. This article reviews the emergence of program management in the hospital sector and reports on the evaluation of West Park's experience.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗

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Transition to program management.

In their continuing pursuit of quality, effectiveness and efficiency, Canadian hospitals are adopting program management as an organizational model. West Park Hospital, a 406-bed continuing care and rehabilitation facility in Toronto, has recently introduced a comprehensive and decentralized program-management structure. This article describes West Park's five-year transition from a traditional administrative structure to program management.

Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499↗