Cynthia,
Adequate staff is essential to patient care but, the ability to operate the business of healthcare in a private practice or hospital setting effectively and efficiently depends upon the decisions of administrators and other non-line staff influences the profitability of the business. Therefore, their presence is needed to manage workflow and address reimbursement issues. Furthermore, if these functions go unwatched for even a short period of time the damage could grow to the point it is irreversible and the organization fails which has a snowball effective especially in small and rural or underserved communities even to the point the hospital is forced to close its doors.
The economic impact of a hospital leaving a community is
Adequate staff is essential to patient care but, the ability to operate the business of healthcare in a private practice or hospital setting effectively and efficiently depends upon the decisions of administrators and other non-line staff influences the profitability of the business. Therefore, their presence is needed to manage workflow and address reimbursement issues. Furthermore, if these functions go unwatched for even a short period of time the damage could grow to the point it is irreversible and the organization fails which has a snowball effective especially in small and rural or underserved communities even to the point the hospital is forced to close its doors.
The economic impact of a hospital leaving a community is