Week #5 Individual Assignment

Week #5 Individual Assignment

Refer to the readings and videos from this week and previous weeks where necessary to answer the following questions:

How efficient are non-profit hospitals at providing uncompensated car vs for-profit hospitals?

What requirements are needed for a hospital to receive non-profit status?

Are a hospital’s financial losses on charity care an adequate measure of its social responsiveness to people’s unmet needs?

• Does requiring hospitals to accept a minimum amount of annual financial loss on uncompensated care promote cost savings throughout the health care system?
• How far does the safety-net provision of charity care in hospital emergency departments and clinics advance the goal of supporting healthy communities?
• What distinguishes the act of giving care to someone who does not pay due to indigence?
• Week #5 PBL Assignment
• Write a paper summarizing your perspective on how health care administrators should decide on spending their limited resources.
• When determining how to allocate resources in a hospital, how can administrators decide how to prioritize funding between employees’ wages and taking care of the poor.  Given that increasing salaries would decrease resources for charity, how should hospitals make these decisions?  Isn’t providing a living wage or more for employees an acceptable social good as well?    What guidelines would you create for Catholic hospitals to follow?