Health care organizations must effectively position themselves alongside their competitors to gain a strong strategic edge over the market. Service area competitor analysis is necessary to determine the geographical setting of the service area, obtain an understanding of the competitors within the service area, identify the competitor’s vulnerabilities, assess the impact of the health care organization’s own strategic actions against specific competitors, and identify some possible moves that a competitor might make that would endanger the organization’s position in the market (Ginter, P. M., Duncan, W. J., & Swayne, 2013). This essay will examine California hospital medical center (CHMC) competitive analysis. The competitive
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Examples of competitive advantage include; high-quality services, the overall image of the hospital, an excellent and widely recognized staff, efficiency and low cost, among others. California Hospital Medical Center (CHMC) is strategically located in a federally designated medically underserved area and serves a medically underserved population. CHMC encompasses a large area that includes all or portions of the following SPAs areas: SPA4 of Metro Los Angeles (LA); parts of SPA 6; South and SPA 8 of South Bay (CDC, 2010). Most of these SPAs are affected by poverty and a plethora of other health challenges, sexually transmittable diseases (STDs) and other chronic conditions (CDC, …show more content…
CHMC has so far excel in some specialized services like the Level II qualified Trauma Center in the downtown area; the Leavey trauma Center with a team of highly skilled surgeons, anesthesiologists and specialists. The center is an essential resource for Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. Leavey trauma Center is verified as a Level II Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons (ACS). CHMC is the only hospital in downtown LA with a full Emergency Room (ER) services. The ER serves more than 85,000 patients each year and provide efficient and high-quality emergency care with state-of-the-art equipment (Goodsam,
Examples of competitive advantage include; high-quality services, the overall image of the hospital, an excellent and widely recognized staff, efficiency and low cost, among others. California Hospital Medical Center (CHMC) is strategically located in a federally designated medically underserved area and serves a medically underserved population. CHMC encompasses a large area that includes all or portions of the following SPAs areas: SPA4 of Metro Los Angeles (LA); parts of SPA 6; South and SPA 8 of South Bay (CDC, 2010). Most of these SPAs are affected by poverty and a plethora of other health challenges, sexually transmittable diseases (STDs) and other chronic conditions (CDC, …show more content…
CHMC has so far excel in some specialized services like the Level II qualified Trauma Center in the downtown area; the Leavey trauma Center with a team of highly skilled surgeons, anesthesiologists and specialists. The center is an essential resource for Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. Leavey trauma Center is verified as a Level II Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons (ACS). CHMC is the only hospital in downtown LA with a full Emergency Room (ER) services. The ER serves more than 85,000 patients each year and provide efficient and high-quality emergency care with state-of-the-art equipment (Goodsam,