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Dr. Partner
The Hospital Leader and the Powerful Physician: 7 Top Strategies for the New Relationship

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Five-Minute Consult
A New Role for APNs?
Advanced practice nurses are encountering plenty of obstacles in their pursuit of full privileges.
Kid-Friendly EDs
Not sure whether your facility is child-proof? A few steps could help you find out.
More Than Maps
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center demystifies its maze of doorways and corridors.
Outsmarting Agencies
Unwilling and unable to bear the load of high agency labor costs, hospitals are looking for answers—and finding them—online.
Behind the Wires
Family practice veteran William Davis promotes connectivity in a rural Minnesota setting.
DEAL!
An inside look at an IT contract.
Keep It Flowing
An automated tracking system helps a Pennsylvania hospital keep tabs on discharges and bed availability.
Reporter’s Desktop
The Quality Equation
EMR technology can help improve care delivery—if the patients cooperate.
A Continuum of Care
A Medicare demonstration project partners hospitals and retirement communities to improve care for the elderly—and increase profitability.
Armchair Finance
Money Talk
The 404 Plunge
So far, only a few health systems have tackled the labor-intensive internal controls section of Sarbox.

Mission Possible

Mission statements are often mocked for being uselessly generic. Random mission statement generators (really) can spit out any combination of "trust" and "teamwork" and "patient needs." Yet many real mission statements adopted by hospitals and healthcare systems are seriously specific, with careful and clear thought given to who should be served, how they should be served, and how management and the medical staff should work together toward those ends.

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