Community Hospital Analysis
... Clair Hospital is a community-based hospital. ... Clair is a not-for-profit hospital. The organization employs 1,800 people, with one primary campus and three small community centers. ... Clair provides the community with a high level of service. Unlike most community hospital, St. ... Core services such as Heart Center, provide the south hills community with care they would find in larger centers. In this poor economy, and with reimbursement continuing to decline, the cost of technology continues to rise, it will become extremely difficult for hospital to make money. ... Clair with a more positive community presence. ... Clair strives to provide a community-based hospital experience with all the technology of a large center. ... Pursue physician-hospital ventures. ... Providing great service is essential to the survival of a hospital. ... The balancing act that a hospital must perform is to balance new technology with ROI. Sometimes a hospital must say no to some technologies because they will lose dollars. Hospitals are struggling to survive; I do not feel that any hospital will be able to pull away from the pack. ... Financial objectives: Negotiate better insurance contracts, increase patient volumes, increase patient satisfaction, and pursue physician-hospital ventures.