As the health care industry endeav...

As the health care industry endeavors to find its footing in this age of managed care and health care consumerism, of the present day inpatient hospitals are becoming a medical arrange of the past.

Traditional hospital-based care is shifting to les splendid customer-oriented outpatient facilities. Changes in delivery options -- and the rising preciousness to deliver them -- have also forced another shift in the medical profession: an ambulatory and preventative approach to health care rather than the traditional bed-oriented and curative original

The figures throw back this new reality. Ninety