Service-Line Planning: Design for Success
Health Care
May 01, 2008
by Robert Stephen and Janice Ahlstrom
Thus far, we have discussed the case for service-line planning as a powerful alignment tool, as well as financial and market analysis that goes into defining a hospital’s service-line portfolio strategy. This article addresses the planning phase when the specific serviceline is developed. With physicians and hospital leaders continuing to lead the planning process, the team next needs to focus on making two critical decisions to set the stage for plan development.
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