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I can’t be sure that anyone on the medical staff at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Long Beach, California read my 2017 post, What You Need To Know About The Flea That (Metaphorically) Killed The Medical Center CEO, but they appear to be following the same strategy in an attempt to eject a hospital CEO.
Mark discusses how a hospital CEO passes blame to an “aggressive, direct competitor” for the downturn in his facility’s patient volume.
As horrible as a fire is — the danger involved, the risk of loss to the home or business owner — there’s also an inherent opportunity: an opportunity to rebuild, to renovate, and to renew.
In a quote qualitatively similar to “my dog ate my homework,” a hospital CEO blamed an “aggressive, direct competitor” for the downturn in his facility’s patient volume. The drop in business led to a significant financial loss, a staff layoff, and a near scrape with Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
As the shift of surgeries from the hospital setting to the ASC setting accelerates, we’re seeing more fraud at the ASC level. No, I’m not talking about the significant amount of fraud that comes from the “usual suspects,” criminal operators who bill for medically unnecessary procedures, for procedures that never occurred, and so on. Instead, […]
As horrible as a fire is — the danger involved, the risk of loss to the home or business owner — there’s also an inherent opportunity: an opportunity to rebuild, to renovate, and to renew. The stories of the phoenix or of Noah and the flood. Let’s discuss the parallels to your business.
As in a guerrilla war, change within an organization, as well as within a domain in which the organization interacts, can occur as a result of agitation by a vocal minority.
Many say that the world is a tough place. Maybe it is, because it’s not just dog-eat-dog. It’s flea-kills-dog as well.
Just as no vote was required for a dictator like Castro to take over Cuba, no medical staff vote, no survey by Press Ganey, no long and drawn out process among “stakeholders,” is required to topple the status quo.