Patient-Centered Redesign: More Collaborative Clinical Input Into Capital Budget Decisions

As part of a restructuring program at a large, acute care hospital, a new, collaborative form of clinical management called triads has been initiated. Members of these collaborative management teams are being collectively empowered to better enable them to establish a continuously improving, cost-effective clinical service. This article describes the impact of this new structure on the capital budgeting process in changing a centralized, committee-based system of decision making with limited clinical nursing input to one that is increasingly decentralized, interdisciplinary, and focused on patients.