I agree Artie, yet too often it is a panacea that results in questionable return. As people bemoan the growth of management, keep in mind much of that administrative structure is related to measurement. There becomes the high risk that measurement crowds out direct care - as well as the risk that measurement reduces the complex, human process of caring  to a series of tasks. 

As this article points out, the Dutch model provides a great deal of human contact. These are not easily translated into measures or well captured in management and funding. There is research on how the development of nurse workload measures reduced human contact to a box: how are you today Mrs. X, tick. As Kevin points out, our helping systems are being reduced by the economics/business school paradigm, "If you can't measure it, you can't measure it". There is another saying from social science, "not everything that can be counted counts, not everything that counts can be counted"