Hospital Survey on Government Relations Function Reveals Variation in Practice and Measurements

A private consultant has just released a first-in-kind national survey on the use by hospitals of government relations professionals, indicating a broad range of practices within the hospital industry. The Report, entitled "The Rise of Hospital Government Relations," summarizes a benchmarking initiative in which the firm of Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock in Nashville, Tennessee, compiled data from hospital and health system government relations leaders about their departments, and reviewed