Saunders R, Mayerhofer J J, Jones W J
St. Vincent Hospital and Medical Center, Portland, OR.
Healthc Financ Manage. 1993 Apr;47(4):50-5.
Hospitals have traditionally looked to income from operations, depreciation, debt, and philanthropy as their major source of revenue. This viewpoint, however, is changing as hospitals move from being the hub of the healthcare provider network to being spokes in an integrated delivery network (IDN), and the traditional tools of debt financing and revenue optimizing become less effective.
