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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists. Pruning the portfolio of facilities and services.

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