HOSPital EXECUTIVE COUNcil

These activities contribute significantly to the organization's exempt purpose of planning, utilization, and quality improvements to health care through conducting research and data studies on health care issues such as development of a community wide data base including emergency department utilization, inpatient services and out patient services; improvement of acute care efficiency by reducing length of patients' stay in hospitals; implement cooperative efforts with long term care facilities and hospitals; improvement of patients' access to emergency departments through reducing diversions of ambulances; and analysis of projected need for medical/surgical beds in the community.

This activity assisted member hospitals in its process of credentialing physicians authorized to practice medicine in their hospitals.