@article{ref1,
title="Seismic retrofit of California hospitals: implementing regulatory policy in a complex and dynamic context",
journal="Natural hazards review",
year="2004",
author="Alesch, Daniel J. and Petak, William J.",
volume="5",
number="2",
pages="89-96",
abstract="Implementing public policy rarely flows either automatically or smoothly following enactment. This paper is a midstream analysis of a study of the implementation of seismic safety legislation in California aimed at strengthening or eliminating older acute-care hospitals. SB 1953, as it has become known, is legislation requiring that owners of acute-care hospitals built before 1973 strengthen those structures to meet contemporary seismic safety standards. Implementing the Act has been troublesome for both health-care administrators and regulators in large part because of the complex, dynamic, and unpredictable environment within which health-care organizations found themselves in the years following enactment of the policy.<p />",
language="",
issn="1527-6988",
doi="10.1061/(ASCE)1527-6988(2004)5:2(89)",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1527-6988(2004)5:2(89)"
}