Sustainability and the health care manager: Part i

Health Care Manager

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-138

  Ramirez, Bernardo ^a,b   Oetjen, Reid M ^a   Malvey, Donna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Health services; organizational strategy; sustainability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; LITERATURE; ORGANIZATION;

CHECKLIST; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HEALTH FACILITY ADMINISTRATORS; HUMANS; METAPHOR; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES;

EID: 79955655466     PISSN: 15255794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HCM.0b013e318216f4e5     Document Type: Article

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