I enjoyed your post. Hospitals need to be competitive in order to survive in this ever changing healthcare environment. As you stated hospitals need to focus on wellness and prevention. Focusing on health and wellness is a national prevention strategy and it includes a comprehensive plan that will help increase the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage in life. The strategy recognizes that good health does not just come from receiving but from stopping disease before it starts (Centers for Disease Control, 2014). Americans need to take ownership of this if hospitals are to be successful. I see it in my own practice, especially with the patients with a chronic illness. Some do not take ownership in their own care. It is my intent,
