Over the past few years, 83 rural hospitals have closed. Mark discusses why, although each disrupted employees and the physicians on staff, hospital closures present opportunity for entrepreneurial physicians.
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We usually think of nosocomial infection, one contracted from the environment or staff of a healthcare facility.
We usually think of nosocomial infection, one contracted from the environment or staff of a healthcare facility, in terms of the impact on patients.
f you’ve ever purchased or sold a house, you’re already familiar with the concept of “due diligence” in the sale of a medical group, ASC, or other healthcare business, just on a smaller scale.
What will happen to your hospital contract or to your hospital employment relationship in the event the hospital merges? Will you still be the contract holder? Will you still have a job?
We plan our business ventures to succeed and that’s a good thing. But at the same time, or at least for more than just a few moments, you should also think about planning for failure. Not of your business, but of the hospital to which it’s linked. The idea is to avoid the spread of infection to your business.
I hear that question on a very frequent basis. In fact, you’re probably thinking it right now.
If you are ever to break out of the current paradigm, it will not be by benchmarking to the best practices of other groups headed downward in the same maelstrom.