“I will be very soon introducing legislation in the Senate to establish a $20 billion emergency trust fund to help states and local communities purchase hospitals that are in financial distress,” Sanders said. “In my view, any time a hospital is put up for sale in America, the local community or the state must have
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August 18, 2008 Stop the name games. University hospitals and regional medical centers should live up to their billing, By Jonathan Metsch, Modern Healthcare Remember when a hospital was just a hospital, and its reputation spoke for itself? Now we have a plethora of self-named healthcare institutions such as clinics, community hospitals, institutes, medical centers,
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“What does a Chief Happiness Officer actually do?” (A) ASSIGNMENT: Find out which NFP mega-hospital system in your region has the most C-Suite titles and then develop a “reporting relationships” Table of Organization. For example, here are some corporate leadership pages from New York/ New Jersey*: https://www.mountsinai.org/about/leadership ** *Hospital Presidents may or may not be
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ASSIGNMENT: You are the head of the Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso and have been “volunteered” to develop a Rapid Response “shadow” licensing program for the new Carrizo Springs, Texas “emergency” shelter which will house as many as 1,600 teens. “What are the basic rules that determine how
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