Lincoln Hospital: Third Party Intervention – A Case Study

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Lincoln Hospital: Third Party Intervention
Soon after the election of a new chief of surgery, the president of Lincoln Hospital faced a crisis. Lincoln, a 300 bed for-profit hospital in south-western United States, was experiencing severe problems in its operating room (OR). Forty per cent of the OR nurses had quit within the previous eight months. Their replacements were significantly less expe…