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This is reposted with permission from Leonard Friedman's Health Management Education blog. Tuesday morning was focused entirely on meetings with representatives from the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. We were met by Annemarieke Taal and Paul Thewissen who took us through the organization, financing and delivery of health services in the Netherlands. Among the key facts shared with us were: The Netherlands has some 16 million persons living here and there are 83 general hospitals of which 28 are more specialized along with 8 academic health centers. The Netherlands has some 26,000 physicians and 82,000 support staff. ...

This is reposted with permission from Leonard Friedman's Health Management Education blog. Our travels today took us to two very different hospitals. Our first stop was to the VU (Free University) Medical Cente r . We met Dr. Fokke Rakers, Director of Real Estate for the hospital. They are one of a handful of academic health centers in the Netherlands. With 713 licensed beds and over 50,000 admissions in 2009, they are one of the smaller AHC's in the country. This is an AHC whose strategy is focused on the merger with a major psychiatric hospital, a strategic alliance with the Amsterdam Medical Center, adoption of lean, centralization of imaging ...