Deliverable Descriptions

Week 2: Competing Hospital Business Set-up and Patient Population

• Due by the end of Week 2 at 11:59 pm, ET.

In this section of the project, you will first identify the city in which your organiation is looking to expand, then,identfy and choose the two hospitals that your organization would be competing with in the city that you have chose. In four to five PowerPoint slides with voiceover, address the prompts below. Remember, your slides must contain at least two scholary resources to support your responses.

• Identify and describe each of the hospitals business structure; Are the hospitals not for profit, for profit, HMO, etc? What are the defining characteristics that make their business structure different from each other?
• From a financial perspective, analyze the legal and regulational boundaries that the two hospitals may experience due to the type of business structure.
• Identify and describe the different type of services offered and the customer needs that the two hospitals seek to meet.
• Describe the patient populations that they serve and how their services are tailored to these populations.