Q&A
Assessment and management of hospital closures' impact
1:15:25
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96 sec
Tricia Taitt discusses the importance of assessing and managing the impact of hospital closures on the healthcare system. She emphasizes the need for a comprehensive evaluation of the effects on remaining hospitals and the role of the board in this process.
- Taitt suggests conducting a full assessment of cost implications, operational efficiency, staffing, and security for affected hospitals
- She recommends looking across the system for additional resources that can be leveraged to support impacted hospitals
- Taitt highlights the board's responsibility in being informed about the impact on costs and operational efficiency
- She emphasizes the importance of maintaining quality patient care and experience throughout the process
Tricia Taitt
1:15:25
I think at this at this moment, it's important to have a conversation with those hospitals that are being affected within the health system as a result of closures and impending closures and do an assessment of you know, what what are the cost implications?
1:15:44
What's the implications to their operational efficiency?
1:15:48
Staffing, security?
1:15:50
So full assessment of what is going on now with the hospitals that are taking on additional patients to continue to ensure quality of experiencing and quality of patient care.
1:16:01
And after doing an assessment of that, looking at and seeing across the system where there are additional resources that can be leveraged, that can be shared with these hospitals that are taking on the additional patients.
1:16:15
And I do see that the board's responsibility in would be to be informed of what's going on in terms of the impact to cost and operational efficient efficiency and to encourage senior leadership and the providers within the system to assess what resources are available to be shared with impacted hospitals, and then, of course, to assess and approve, you know, because I I assume that I would be on a finance committee or audit committee of some sort.
1:16:44
But to assess and approve any potential cost implications or shifts in budgets that that result because of that, so that we can continue to support against hospital leadership, but also that that patients have a great experience, and they continue to receive quality care.
1:17:01
Thank