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Why become a Global Hospital ?
The challenge for American hospitals is not competing with the hospital across town or with hospitals in the big city down the Interstate highway. The challenge is how American hospitals compete for patients, physicians, nurses and recognition in the global marketplace. Over forty years ago, David Brower, founder of Friends of the Earth, coined the term “Think globally, act locally.” Today, among the most visionary American hospital CEOs, from large and small hospitals, the expression is “Think globally, act globally.” While most major players in American healthcare, including insurance providers, pharmaceutical companies, technology equipment manufacturers, software developers, and others have long had global markets built into their strategic plans, most American hospitals have not.
Today, as the quality of hospitals abroad improve their standards, American hospitals are learning from foreign hospitals – on building design, operations, patient safety, cost reduction, planning, marketing and public relations. A growing number of American healthcare groups, such as International Hospital Corp. and Christus Health, both based in Dallas, are looking at how they can get foreigners to use their hospitals, physicians, and high-tech equipment and, at the same time, how they can collaborate with foreign hospitals and insurance providers. They benefit, coming and going: when their patients choose to go abroad for high quality affordable care or when foreigners come to their facilities in America. Other hospital groups need to be looking for strategic collaboration abroad, so that they won’t be behind as the healthcare market goes global and they’re acting local. Hospitals in the US that want a share in patients from abroad will need collaboration with physicians and health systems abroad. It is clear that health care around the world needs improvement. The ideal would be a standard for health care quality that not only standardizes quality and outcomes among the states in the US but also comparable quality and outcomes among countries.
Global health care is not just limited to patients from one country going to another country to get care. It also involves health care professionals, including surgeons, other physicians, nurses, pharmacists and others, working together to solve health care problems, create new treatments, and improve patient outcomes. One example is the first successful transplantation of a trachea using the patient's stem cells, conducted by Paolo Macchiarini MD and an international team at the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Spain. The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses has incorporated a new feature in its peer-reviewed journal, called Global Perspectives, to report on international involvement with organizations such as the International Council of Nurses and the International Federation of Perioperative Nursing.
Objectives of Global Hospital Initiative are
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