Question

Provide a brief overview of one rural hospital in your areas and the services it offers. If you live in the city, choose a rural hospital within the U.S. What are the challenges faced in rural health?

are these challenges unique to the rural area and how do they differ from the larger, metropolitan hospitals?

What are some of the reasons rural patients might choose larger hospitals and forgo health services provided by the rural hospital? What can you, as an administrator, do about it?

Answer 1

The place is Jamestown which is situated in Tennessee state in the southeastern region of the United States. The challenges faced by hospital in this area are lack of infrastructure, lack of facilities, inadequate doctors and nurses, instruments and tools are of sub-standard quality etc.Normally these problems are faced by hospitals situated in rural area because of low market opportunity and viability, massive investment in infrastructure and other facilities in hospital are not done.In larger and metropolitan areas, market size is large and people have disposable income to pay and doctors also prefer to live in metro area.These supply factors are less in metropolitan areas due to its locational advantage but in rural areas supply gap is much more.

Everyone want better facilities to get treatment in the hospital and due to availability of cutting edge technology and well trained doctors and nurses, people in rural areas prefer to visit larger hospital. As an administrator, I know that the budget of the hopsital will not be adequte for ther expansion so I will seek help from Federal Govt., state govt and local govt to provide budgetary support and we can give some of the secondary facilities in the hospital. It is difficult to provide tertiary care in that scale in rural hospital, so I will collaborate with hospital where the patients refered by my hospital will charged low fees.