Planning, Marketing, and Finance in the HCO
1. Healthcare organizatons often employ multicorporate structure because of their many financial benefits. Use the internet/library of other resources. Specifically, use U.S. sources if at all possible - to find an example of an HCO that uses a Multicorporate structure and explain how it benefits that organization.
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1. Healthcare organizatons often employ multicorporate structure because of their many financial benefits. Use the internet/library of other resources. Specifically, use U.S. sources if at all possible - to find an example of an HCO that uses a Multicorporate structure and explain how it benefits that organization.
The term "multicorporate structure" seems to be a term used rarely in the HCO literature. In fact, an Internet search using the words 'multicorporate structure and HCO' received only one hit and that was an advertisement for the text by Griffith's et al. Next I searched many HCO articles for the use of the word 'multicorporate.' I noted that when the term "multicorporate" was used, although rarely, these sources used the terms 'integrated system' and 'multicorporate structure' interchangeably. So this is the definition on which my response is based.
Saying that, once again, I found this material very interesting. I have attached the response to your question and the article of an HCO with a multicorporate structure. I have highlighted the benefits of such a ...
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This solution provides and expands on an example of a Healthcare Organizaton (HCO) that employs a multicorporate structure, and determines how this structure might benefit that organization.