Clinical service lines bring patients into focus

Nurs Manage. 2000 Mar;31(3):40-3.

Abstract

In 1996, SSM St. Joseph Hospital of Kirkwood, Mo., was in crisis mode. A radical structure change from centralized nursing to clinical service lines helped to keep the organization in the black.

MeSH terms

  • Disease Management*
  • Economic Competition
  • Hospital Restructuring / organization & administration*
  • Hospitals, Community / organization & administration*
  • Hospitals, Religious / organization & administration*
  • Hospitals, Special / organization & administration*
  • Humans
  • Missouri
  • Organizational Innovation
  • Patient-Centered Care / organization & administration*