Solution
While there are significant challenges ahead, Physicians for Healthy Hospitals believes the following framework will be instrumental in helping our hospitals succeed.
- Local physicians must be made a part of any solution to keep our hospitals open. Local physicians have the established practices and patients necessary to increase hospital admissions and reimbursements
- Immediate efforts must be taken to resolve all regulatory issues to keep the hospitals safe and ensure that critical federal funding is not lost
- Partnerships must be developed with healthcare industry leaders to bring specialty services and university clinical programs to our communities
- The new owners of our hospitals must commit to keep them operating as full-service medical facilities and not turn them into nursing homes
- A new financial model must be implemented to ensure the hospitals’ future fiscal solvency
Given the opportunity, we can make the difference in the lives and health of our communities and our hospitals.
As your local physicians, we know that’s what good medicine is all about.