{"id":219462,"date":"2018-09-16T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/16\/hcs-451-week-5-discussion-question-1-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:59:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:59:58","slug":"hcs-451-week-5-discussion-question-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/hcs-451-week-5-discussion-question-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HCS 451 Week 5 Discussion Question 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Review the scenario below and answer the questions that follow:\t\u00a0\tABC Hospital is a small, privately owned community hospital. It has been struggling to survive financially, as reimbursement rates have declined and consumers are being drawn to the larger state-of-the-art hospital facilities in urban areas that are perceived to have better quality. ABC Hospital was built in 1960 and has been operating in the same manner for many decades. The hospital meets legal and regulatory requirements but has not kept pace with some of the newer technologies and patient conveniences becoming more prevalent in the health care industry.\t\u00a0\to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What strategies can the organization take to survive, improve its performance, and compete with other hospitals over the next 5 years?\to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What are some advantages or disadvantages of these strategies? Provide specific examples to support your answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review the scenario below and answer the questions that follow: \u00a0 ABC Hospital is a small, privately owned community hospital. It has been struggling to survive financially, as reimbursement rates have declined and consumers are being drawn to the larger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/hcs-451-week-5-discussion-question-1-2\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}