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Hospitals are built to save lives and provide high-quality health care However , to do these things , it is necessary to save the hospital first It has been six months after the mandate was given to Bruce Reid appointed new CEO of the Blake Memorial Hospital , to improve both the quality of healthcare as well as the hospital 's finance department Bruce Reid had to finalize a budget worth 70 million he faces

a dilemma because of several underfunded clinics which were established 5 years ago by the former CEO of the hospital which literally takes most of the hospital 's budget or funds . Somehow , this dilemma brings back a past memory to Bruce Reid . Bruce Reid 's memory back tracks to his first visit of the Lorris housing project , where most of the infrastructures or facilities inside are on their worst condition . In another visit to a clinic , headed by Dr . Renee Dawson for six years already , Bruce Reid faces the same dilemma or condition

Funds were generally needed , especially for new equipments , facilities or technologies to increase competitive advantage . However , to obtain enough funds , then sufficient investments should be made something which seems difficult to attain . To compensate for lack of investments several actions were taken by Bruce Reid including internal cost cuts and fund generation activities . The city was even convinced to contribute 100 ,000 to their program . While others , such as Bryant and Lee , offered advise to Bruce Reid to close down some clinics , because that would help in cutting down expenses . However , Bruce Reid replied you don 't measure the community 's health on an income statement (Rakich , 2004 . Months after the program , the results of the programs or activities made by Bruce Reid , which were reported by Russell , only showed more negative results or questions raised . Russell explains that it is due to prenatal decline . Without supplementary outreach pregnant women are less inclined to visit the clinics (Rakich , 2004 Bruce Reid , on the other hand , concludes that his method of keeping more clinics to improve health care wasn 't enough to bring any difference or positive results . In the end , the status quo of the hospitals or clinics remained , and the dilemma still exists . Though one thing is certain saving the hospital from financial difficulties is as complicated and as significant as saving lives .References

Rakich , Jonathan S , B .B . Longest Jr . and K . Darr (2004 ) Cases in Health Services Management . Health Professions Press , 31-37

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