The Burning Platform: Producing Change in Difficult Economic Times

An HFMA Healthcare Financial Pulse Resource

How are financial and economic pressures creating a "burning platform" for health care, and how can healthcare leaders bring about change in their organizations?

HFMA President and CEO Dick Clarke describes improvements that can help hospitals survive the burning platform and successfully pursue a value strategy in this special section of the Governance Institute's BoardRoom Press.

Note: This article is published with the permission of the Governance Institute as a secured PDF file. It can be downloaded for reading online, but cannot be printed.

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Publication Date: Monday, May 04, 2009

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