"Evaluating the Cost Efficiency of Specialist Physicians"
As non-profit hospitals face increased financial pressures, there is much debate about how they can fulfill their obligation to provide “community benefit,” while still remaining financial viable. James C. Robinson, Ph.D., and Sandra Dratler, Ph.D., at the University of California, Berkeley, examined how a forty-hospital, non-profit system, Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), that was experiencing major financial losses in 2000 was able to reorganize and reverse those losses, while still preserving its charitable mission.
