This addresses if specialty hospitals can be justified.

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• This posting addresses if specialty hospitals are justified.

  This can really be looked at from both sides.

• Entrepreneurial Physician Initiatives

  From a patient perspective one of the advantages of entrepreneurial physician initiatives is that these treatment centers and specialty hospitals can usually treat patients much more expeditiously than traditional hospitals.

• Health Care Delivery Models

  When competing for services, specialty groups may lose focus of the patient care model and strive to achieve financial success by seeing more patients. Hospitals that may not be specialized will lost patients to specialty private group doctors.

• Significant Trends in the Health Care Industry

  In addition, reimbursements from third party payers like Medicare have been found to be decreased for specialty hospitals. This phenomenon is more prevalent in cardiology and surgery centers (Zimmerman, 2006).

• Competitive Strategy in Health Care

  Even if doctors are required, they can be recruited from abroad to keep the costs low. In addition, the assignment and promotion criteria are group contribution.

• Effectively Incorporating Strategy Into Business Operations

  A weakness of this strategy, is the fact that it may be seen by some individuals as a means by which hospitals are trying to profit from the sickness of their patients, in addition to the fees that are charged for medical treatment.

• Key Strategies of Successful Managers

  552918 Key Strategies of Successful Managers With the rapid growth of specialty hospitals, physician-run outpatient surgery centers and diagnostic centers, traditional hospitals are facing increased competition.

• Managed Care and the Impact on Long-term Supply

  If the supply of physicians is not decreased, research suggests that over time physicians will be in shorter and shorter supply. A wise organization will consider this (See "Managed Care and Physician Surplus US" attached).

• Challenges to Acute and Nonacute Care Facilities

  This sort of specialty hospitals can take away patients going to general hospitals. This can take away profits for general hospitals. Physician groups are competing with each other to give specialized care.