TOPIC/FOCUS: Hospitals and Ambulatory Care Learning Objectives Upon completion of this module, the students will be able to: 1) Explain the challenges with hospitals and ambulatory care. Learning Activities 1) Read Chapters 4 and 5. Assignments: (20 points) Due Week 3 Respond in writing to the following questions: 1) The traditional management style of hospitals have been hierarchical and internally focused. What are the three important challenges that hospitals face to accommodate new payers and consumer expectations? 2) Though physicians believed that only physicians could and should judge the quality of hospital medical care, they found participation in such hospital peer review activities a disagreeable obligation. What were some problems with the peer review process? 3) Almost two-thirds of all surgical procedures are now performed in ambulatory surgery facilities. Discuss the reasons for this shift of surgery from the inpatient setting and its effect on hospitals and consumers. 4) Some people support the role of public health departments in providing preventive and treatment services as necessary to fill gaps for the medically needy. Others believe these services are more efficiently and effectively provided through private organizations. What is your position on this issue and why?

TOPIC/FOCUS: Hospitals and Ambulatory Care Learning Objectives Upon completion of this module, the students will be able to: 1) Explain the challenges with hospitals and ambulatory care. Learning Activities 1) Read Chapters 4 and 5. Assignments: (20 points) Due Week 3 Respond in writing to the following questions: 1) The traditional management style of hospitals have been hierarchical and internally focused. What are the three important challenges that hospitals face to accommodate new payers and consumer expectations? 2) Though physicians believed that only physicians could and should judge the quality of hospital medical care, they found participation in such hospital peer review activities a disagreeable obligation. What were some problems with the peer review process? 3) Almost two-thirds of all surgical procedures are now performed in ambulatory surgery facilities. Discuss the reasons for this shift of surgery from the inpatient setting and its effect on hospitals and consumers. 4) Some people support the role of public health departments in providing preventive and treatment services as necessary to fill gaps for the medically needy. Others believe these services are more efficiently and effectively provided through private organizations. What is your position on this issue and why?