Review the following scenario:ABC Hospital is a small, privately-owned community hospital. It has been struggling to survive financially, as reimbursement rates have declined and consumers are being drawn to the larger state-of-the-art hospital facilities in urban areas that are perceived to have better quality. ABC Hospital was built in 1960 and has been operating in the same manner for many decades. The hospital meets legal and regulatory requirements but has not kept pace with some of the newer technologies and patient conveniences becoming more prevalent in the health care industry. Discuss the following with the class, providing specific examples to support your answers:
What strategies can the organization take to survive, improve its performance, and compete with other hospitals over the next 5 years?
What are some advantages or disadvantages of these strategies?
Privately-owned community hospital in the nation facing major
financial challenges. Many health care facilities not expanded
Medicaid make more financial pressure. For patient protection and
the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid expansion was important. Due to
increasing high-deductible health plans, many people can not use
health care services. Community hospitals to become a larger system
using marketing, technology, economies can deliver the best
services with less cost.
Strategies to overcome these issues:
- Decreasing patient volumes in the community hospital they need to
determine the market the place with competitors where they lose the
patient. engagement surveys help with this community for a proper
market survey for proving healthcare at less cost.
- community hospital needs to make significant technology
investments like implementing an EHR system. Federal government
offering some support to small community rural hospital for
purchasing health IT products, health resources, and services.
Their major percentage of capital allocation on technology can
improve their investment. partnerships with larger systems can help
improve sharing resources and avoiding more cost and local
control.
- The investment will be the top option for understanding the cost
of the care. IT system adoption for community hospital help
monitors the cost in real time on a daily basis with less cost
option like outsourcing.
- High-deductible health plans by avoiding unnecessary ER visits
and improving billing practices can decrease bad debt problems
because many patients they can not afford for health care services
they receive they prefer Medicaid services they receive in an
ER.
Advantages:
- Financial pressure can reduce
- they can achieve success in the market.
- There will expansion in equipment, resources, IT health,
alliances.
-improve about competitors market level.
Disadvantages:
- the workload for employees increases
- Excess capacity makes problem in policy and technology.
- They can be low-quality care and customer satisfaction
- Lack of skills to managers cause outsourcing failed.
Disadvantages:
Review the following scenario:ABC Hospital is a small, privately-owned community hospital. It has been struggling to...
ABC Hospital is a small, privately-owned community hospital. It has been struggling to survive financially, as reimbursement rates have declined and consumers are being drawn to the larger state-of-the-art hospital facilities in urban areas that are perceived to have better quality. ABC Hospital was built in 1960 and has been operating in the same manner for many decades. The hospital meets legal and regulatory requirements but has not kept pace with some of the newer technologies and patient conveniences becoming...
ABC Hospital is a small, privately-owned community hospital. It has been struggling to survive financially, as reimbursement rates have declined and consumers are being drawn to the larger state-of-the-art hospital facilities in urban areas that are perceived to have better quality. ABC Hospital was built in 1960 and has been operating in the same manner for many decades. The hospital meets legal and regulatory requirements but has not kept pace with some of the newer technologies and patient conveniences becoming...
Write a 175- to 265-word response to the following: Review the following scenario: ABC Hospital is a small, privately-owned community hospital. It has been struggling to survive financially, as reimbursement rates have declined and consumers are being drawn to the larger state-of-the-art hospital facilities in urban areas that are perceived to have better quality. ABC Hospital was built in 1960 and has been operating in the same manner for many decades. The hospital meets legal and regulatory requirements but has...
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