ABSTRACT
Strategic planning in a rural community is a challenge. Trying to predict the impact of federal health care reforms while undertaking a 30 million dollar capital construction campaign to consolidate two deteriorating hospitals into one new medical center could have been a nightmare. Health Care Strategic Management publisher Donald E.L. Johnson and Eastern New Mexico Medical Center president and chief executive officer James K. Knoble discuss the challenges of federal health care reforms and rural health care administration, and explore potential opportunities for collaboration and integration.
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Community-Institutional Relations , Comprehensive Health Care/organization & administration , Hospitals, Rural/organization & administration , Governing Board , Health Policy , Interprofessional Relations , Medical Staff, Hospital/organization & administration , United StatesABSTRACT
James K. Knoble, president of the 369-bed JFK Medical Center, Atlantis, Fla., and former president of Methodist Medical Center of Illinois, Peoria, is in the midst of his third turnaround situation since he became a hospital CEO in 1965. Knoble is known as a CEO who keeps close track of the business environment, works closely with his board and medical staff and is effective at building a staff and delegating significant operating responsibilities. At JFK, whose previous administrator stole large sums of money and left it with serious financial and operating problems, Knoble is back in the operating mode. He is again a hands-on hospital operator, working closely with department heads as well as with the board and medical staff. In this interview with Health Care Strategic Management's editor and publisher, Donald E.L. Johnson, Knoble discusses his team building and turnaround strategy and JFK's progress during the last 18 months.
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Hospital Administration , Hospital Restructuring , Institutional Management Teams , Organization and Administration , Florida , Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499 , Illinois , Organizational ObjectivesABSTRACT
A hospital's ambulatory surgical center has eased census pressures on inpatient units and has offered patients and third-party payers substantial cost savings for high-quality care.
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Ambulatory Surgical Procedures/statistics & numerical data , Outpatient Clinics, Hospital/organization & administration , Ambulatory Surgical Procedures/economics , Consumer Behavior , Costs and Cost Analysis , Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over , IllinoisABSTRACT
The synthesis and antimicrobial activity of a new semisynthetic penicillin are described. Both in vitro and in vivo, the compound shows promising antibacterial activity when compared with piperacillin and ticarcillin. High activity is shown against Pseudomonas and other Gram-negative bacteria.
