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Strategic planning in hospitals

Title: Strategic planning in hospitals: a review and proposal.

Authors: Bruton, Garry D.; Oviatt, Benjamin M.; Kallas-Bruton,

Citation: Health Care Management Review, Summer 1995 v20 n3 p16(10)

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Abstract: Hospitals have been encouraged to adopt strategic planning

techniques to increase their efficiency. However, there is no

proof that hospitals which have adopted strategic planning are

more efficient than those which have not used the method. To

address these problems, issues surrounding the implementation

of strategic planning in hospitals are presented.

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Full Text COPYRIGHT Aspen Publishers Inc. 1995

Hospitals face increasing levels of financial and organizational

pressures each year. Hospitals are urged to adapt to these pressures via

strategic planning, but the empirical evidence on this technique is

limited. This article addresses these issues.

One way hospitals are encouraged to improve their business posture is

through strategic planning, which business firms associate with better

performance. It is argued that strategic planning will produce similar

benefits for the American hospital system. Over the past 12 years,

hospital journals have devoted special issues to the usefulness,

development, and implementation of strategic planning.[1,2] Numerous

additional articles have appeared in other journals,[3-7] or have been

prepared by groups such as the American Hospital Association[8] and

others.[9] In short, there is considerable literature that discusses how

This level of prescriptive support has led many to assume automatically

that strategic planning is beneficial. However, a paucity of information

exists on how many hospitals in the United Stat...

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