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Northwestern Memorial Hospital Case Study
The services that lead Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) to the forefront are the specialties which are diabetes, endocrinology, neurology, urology, cardiology, cardiac surgery, pulmonology, oncology, nephrology, digestive disorders, gastroenterology, gynecology, geriatrics, pulmonology, orthopedics, and neurosurgery. Furthermore, NMH maintains by offering excellent customer and through clinical research studies. Also, what NMH have discovered works for their organization is participating in free care. According to (Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, 2010) “the hospital reports it provided community benefit contributions totaling $276.7 million in 2010 and including $44 million for charity care.” Most importantly, what do not work for NMH
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