The Custer Hospital Scenario
I decided to do do the Custer Hospital scenario. To me there are a couple of public health challenges that this scenario faces but the main one has to do with the limited amount of assessments done on outpatient clinics. First and foremost the new CEO wants to implement three new community improvements onto the hospital: convert to EMR, build an additional outpatient and surgery center and hire at least two physicians that are at least 10 miles away from the ER.
The problem that we face first is even though there has been an environmental scan and community needs assessment for the hospital, there has not been one done for the actual outpatient clinics. Considering that one of the major changes is to add an outpatient clinic not would be
The problem that we face first is even though there has been an environmental scan and community needs assessment for the hospital, there has not been one done for the actual outpatient clinics. Considering that one of the major changes is to add an outpatient clinic not would be