From Competitors to Partners
Just whose responsibility is it anyway to fix the medical system in the US? Is it the AMA? The AHA? How about hospital administrators in the aggregate? What about policymakers; that is, when their work isn't being ignored or used as the reason for not supporting a purportedly necessary change (e.g., the Affordable Care Act). This comes to mind because a hospital client has a terrible problem in the ER; like at 175% capacity and the other charity hospitals in this urban setting have even higher ER capacity rates. The thing is, this is an incredibly cosmopolitan city with lots to do. There's nothing appealing about hanging out in the ER; that is, if you can even get inside. So that's certainly not reason for the big crowds. If you ask the Chief of ER what the solution to the chronic overcrowding is, he'd tell you that there is some kind of discharge problem "upstairs." He thinks that a whole bunch of inpatients tieing up beds should b...