title: Cool, calm, and collected: medical center successfully regroups after financial crisis.
abstract: Declining Medicare payment. Increasing competition from niche players. Rising labor costs. Waning commitment of employed physicians. Taken alone, each of these circumstances can pose a significant challenge for a healthcare organization. Together, however, they can add up to a severe financial crisis. Via Christi Regional Medical Center in Wichita, Kan., learned that surviving such a crisis depends on rapid implementation of a well-conceived action plan, taking into account the multiple perspectives of leadership, physicians, staff, and patients.
authors.affiliation: Via Christi Regional Medical Center, Wichita, Kan., USA.
authors.forename: Randall G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Nyp
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Whetsell
mesh_terms: D004526:Efficiency; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics*; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods*; D006268:Health Facilities / Q000191:economics; D058016:Health Facility Administration; D007615:Kansas; D019982:Organizational Case Studies