TrendWatch Reports

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• The Migration of Care to Non-hospital Settings: Have Regulatory Structures Kept Pace with Changes in Care Delivery?, TrendWatch, July 2006

• Implications of Federal Medicaid Reform on States, Beneficiaries, and Providers, TrendWatch, April 2005, Vol. 7 No. 1

• The Economic Contributions of Hospitals Update, TrendWatch, February 2005
  

• Impact of Limited-service Providers on Communities and Full-service Hospitals, TrendWatch, September 2004, Vol. 6. No. 2
  
  
• The Economic Contributions of Hospitals TrendWatch, TrendWatch, May 2004, Vol. 6, No. 1
  
  
• Paying for Performance: Creating Incentives for Quality Improvement. TrendWatch, September 2003, Vol. 5, No. 3.
  
  
• The Medicaid Dilemma: Shrinking Budgets, Difficult Choices. TrendWatch, June 2003, Vol. 5, No. 2, Part I and Part II.
  
  
• The Changing Physician Environment. TrendWatch, June 2003, Vol. 5, No. 1.
  
  
• Cutting Edge Costs: Hospitals and New Technology. TrendWatch, September 2002, Part I and Part II.
  
  
• Medical Liability Insurance: Looming Crisis? TrendWatch, June 2002, Part I and Part II
  
  
• Challenges Facing Rural Hospitals, TrendWatch, June 2002
  
  
• Teaching Hospitals-Social Missions at Risk, TrendWatch, May 2002
  
  
• Forces Driving Inpatient Utilization, TrendWatch, November 2001
  
  
• The Hospital Workforce Shortage: Immediate and Future, TrendWatch, June 2001
  
  
• Emergency Departments--An Essential Access Point to Care, TrendWatch, March 2001
  
  
• Redefining Hospital Capacity, TrendWatch, September 2000
  
  
• Essential Access - Broadening the Safety Net, TrendWatch, June 2000
  
  
• The Impact of the BBA and the BBRA, TrendWatch, March 2000
  
  
• What Can Medicare Learn from the Private Sector?, TrendWatch, September 1999
  
  
• Medicare's Post-Acute Care Challenge, TrendWatch, June 1999
  
  
• RN Shortages in Hospitals, TrendWatch, March 1999
  
  
• Hospital Financial Performance, TrendWatch, January 1999

TrendWatch Chartbook:

• Trends Affecting Hospitals and Health Systems, April 2006
  
  
• Trends Affecting Hospitals and Health Systems, May 2005
  
  
• Trends Affecting Hospitals and Health Systems, September 2004
  
  
• Trends Affecting Hospitals and Health Systems, July 2003
  
  
• Trends Affecting Hospitals and Health Systems, November 2002
  
  
• Trends Affecting Hospitals and Health Systems, July 2001
  
  
• Trends affecting hospitals and health systems, June 2000