Hospital operations execs focus on human resource needs. Interview by Thomas G. Goodwin.

As part of its coverage on the human resource issues that will face hospital managers in the next few years, FAHS Review interviewed several of the investor-owned industry's most outspoken and respected, managers. Although the comments of these five executives range from a call for a complete overhaul of the administrative functions of the hospital to the early recruitment of young people into the health care industry, all agreed on one key point: the successful hospital manager of the 1990s will have to be savvy, tough, resourceful, flexible and innovative.