Planning of Specialized Health Facilities

TO those who have come to look on the postwar boom years as "normal," the very idea of planning for the development of health facilities is anathema. They are used to a world in which specialized facilities have burgeoned, almost irrespective of cost, wherever they have been planted. The sole limitation has been the availability of patients with insurance, Medicare or Medicaid funds to bear the costs.This unrestricted freedom to develop specialized services such as neurosurgery or heart surgery, together with their necessary support facilities, has been extraordinarily rewarding. Those concerned have been able to command the best of . . .