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a plethora of strengths including: size, key service lines, multiple awards for quality, and brand recognition. MRMC is a 421-bed facility that offers inpatient, outpatient, medical, surgical and emergency care. The sheer number of patients this hospital can accommodate is impressive and a clear asset; the amount of those in need of care results in a high number of clinical professionals in the same place to collaborate and provide the best expertise for community members. Key service lines…

Today, there is a new concern as hospitals which have been in the past non profit are turning to for profit models. Shareholders and owners want top dollar return on their investment. Even in non profit organization, financial viability and return on investment is carefully monitored and strategies created to increase growth. So where does this leave, the delivery…

is responsible for filtering regulations and prompting quality improvement (Likosky, 2014). St. Vincent Medical Center is located in the Bridgeport, Connecticut. It is a 520-bed, faith-based community teaching hospital that is a member of Ascension Health, the largest Catholic, non-profit healthcare…

stay fluid, adapt, and change. This includes the company’s willingness to modify the culture when a gap exists from where the company is to where it wants to be. In 2013 University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) had to complete a culture overhaul. UCH was in a rut that was developed by running the hospital like a business instead of a complete healthcare provider. UCH had to look at its current culture and perform a culture shift; the new culture not only affected the business but also had an…

costs to be able to attract many patients to the hospital for cares (Kroenke…

There 's no qualms hospital administrator 's job is problematic and trying, and it 's only getting tougher each year. With so many conflicting and expenses surge, hospital executives must prepare administrators to successfully manage during a time of transformational, staff shortage and other changes in the healthcare system. The growing health problems in the country today require more hospitals that offer new and sophisticated facilities. In fact, the need for additional staff, medical and…

After the Great Depression and WWII the country was facing another crisis, a lack of community hospitals. In 1946 the U.S. government approved the Hill-Burton Act. The purpose of Hill-Burton was to increase hospital beds from 3.2 per 1,000 people to 4.5 per 1,000 people through a program aimed at increasing the construction of community hospitals (Shi & Singh, 2015). It was a lofty goal by the government, one in which they invested more than $4.6 billion in grants and $1.5 billion in loans…

community needs assessment at Trinity Community Hospital, it was identified that there would be a 46% increase in the communities demand for orthopedic intervention over the span of the next 5 years. This assessment also identified a 30% rise in the number of inpatient spine and joint procedures, and a 350% increase in the number of outpatient spine and joint procedures that the community will demand. After careful review of Trinity Community Hospitals fact sheet, there is no evidence that…

been many changes to hospital systems and the services that they provide. Hospitals from years past were places where the homeless, poor and mentally ill were housed. Due to limited medical knowledge, no true medical care was provided in the early years. This caused a stigma to be placed on hospital care; causing the middle class people to avoid them at all cost. With increased medical knowledge in the 1900’s, hospitals changed into more of what they are today. Today’s hospitals are medical…

This issue causes the hospital to lose profits and places a poor reputation on the hospital throughout the community. This problem can be identified by the direct number of persons that register to be seen in the Emergency Room versus the number that leaves before being transferred to a room in the department…