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5 Most Dangerous Trends Facing Local Hospitals

HOUSTON, TX---American Art Resources (AAR) today announced they underwrote a Fortune 500 research report for the Hospital CEO Forum. The report entitled “the 5 Most Dangerous Trends Facing Hospitals” has one of the most innovative solutions to the coming acceleration in America’s growing hospital crisis.

The shocking results from this investigation discovered that Americas hospitals are in trouble.
Experts predict an estimated shortage of 150,000-200,000 beds nationwide by 2012 because of profitability issues. (Source: J.D. Powers, JHACO, Hospital & Health Networks, M.T.I.B)

The 5 Most Dangerous Trends are:

1) Bottom line performance is not improving
Efficiency and cost cutting policies are not working. While hospitals have been going out of business at a rate of one hospital every 8 days for the last 30 years, the bankruptcy trend has started to accelerate in 2005.

2) Cutthroat competition to our medical centers include medical tourism.
Medicare and Medicaid recent reimbursement reductions have made it harder for medical centers to survive. Competition from diagnostic testing facilities, ambulatory surgery centers and specialty hospitals are growing at record rates. India has recently become an early threat with two (2) hospitals that have been approved by the JHACO.

3) Public is losing confidence in our hospitals.
35% of patients indicate a likelihood of not returning to the same hospital. 41% wouldn't recommend a hospital to their family.

4) Staff satisfaction is low
Nursing shortage of more than 1 million nurses as well as significant shortages in pharmacists, lab technicians, and other technical employees are expected by 2010. The hospital working environment is a key contributor to the 20% average burnout and staff turnover.

5) Lawsuits are on the rise
Medical malpractice has grown at an annual rate 30% faster than for all U.S. tort cases. The average malpractice settlement more than tripled from $95,000 in 1986 to $320,000 in 2002.

The Hospital CEO Forum was created to improve on the education model that teaches hospital executives how to survive in a tough economy, improve patient outcomes, mitigate staff stress, reduce medical errors and improve bottom lines.

To be a part of the Hospital CEO Forum please call 800-282-0204 or visit www.hospitalCEOforum.org


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Bob, I don't know of any easy way to look at that - 30 years is a long time!

I feel with globalization CEO's Job becomes even more challenging and demanding.
There is a great need for effecient CEO's in India who can work,manage,and function even in a cross cultural environment.

How does one become a hospital ceo? What would you have to study in college?

Nola, I think you could pretty much study anything in college, but economics, business, finance, or any other major that is both people-oriented and analytical in nature would be good. the key really is what you do after college. I would encourage you to consider an MHA or MBA.

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Ok everybody now... Let's do the Quorum shuffle! Oh yea, or is it the QHR shuffle? You want real insight to some of the problems we are facing today - let's play follow the leader and check in on how old Quorum is doing these days.

You might remember Quorum Health Resources - yea they manage about 200 hospitals nationwide - they settled that Medicare Cost report fraud case with the feds in the late 90s for approx. $85M. Nope, they never even broke stride and the deals just keep on coming their way.

What is the Quorum shuffle you ask? Oh, that's a sneaky one. Check the latest newspaper accounts of their managed hospitals in Natchez (MS), Lamar (CO), Montrose (CO) and Almagordo (NM).

The bottom line - they go into hospitals and set-up both a management deal AND a variety of kickback deals from "preferred" vendors. They run the hospital into the ground. They fire their own administrator. They hire one of their own traveling interim administrators as the clean-up guy. They hire their own QHR consulting guys to help clean-up. They ask for tax money and blame the government for cutbacks. The community coughs up a ton of tax money. Quourum keeps deal and starts the cycle all over again.

Don't believe me? Just spend 5 minutes and do the research on your own. Oh and by the way - if you work for Quorum and read this - we will see you soon with another update.... until then - keep shuffling!

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WOW! Quorom sounds just like BRIM management company! They've done the same thing in small communities(20-70,000) all over the U.S. They've received so much money from the tax payers;fired over 150 staff members in one facility alone! They've wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars switching engineering and architecural firms over the course of a hospital renovation that is now into it's 3rd year with little progress, fines, and no end in sight. The interim CEO shuffle is all too familiar. The pick for the CEO position was overridden by a brainwashed board of directors and BRIM.I give you Kevin Hawk. Master of his own special universe and private domain. By the time their work is done in this community, they can certainly afford to retire. RA RA RA!!!! Go BRIM!I forgot to mention that BRIM and the hospital board managed to pick one heck of a guy to be a CEO and role model for a community. Homewrecker X 3!His own, and two other marriages. I give you status quo. Strong work in just 3 short years.