Catalog Number : agn1581
Title : Global Health Care: Medical Tourism & Hospitals Without Borders
Speaker : Emerson Smith

Webplay Recording Date : 3-4-2009
Webplay Price : $ 195 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:

Years ago, hospitals recognized and regretted that their paying patients were bypassing their facility to travel to hospitals in larger urban centers in their state. Then, they saw patients going out-of-state, sometimes all the way across the country, to get medical and surgical care. This “leakage” of paying patients reduced revenues and perceptions of quality at these hospitals.

Today, hospitals are seeing their patients traveling outside of the U.S. to Germany, Ireland, Spain, Turkey, Thailand, Singapore, Mexico, and other countries around the world. These foreign hospitals are often staffed by American hospital administrators and American-trained physicians, are Joint Commission International approved, have quality that meets or exceeds that of many US hospitals, and have costs that are significantly lower than most U.S. hospitals.

Learn how your hospital can mitigate the impact of this leakage on total revenues by improving quality, reducing costs, supporting national political initiatives on universal coverage, working with patients and insurers, and affiliating with foreign hospitals to expand your services to meet the needs of people in your service area.

Target Audience: 

• Management
• Boards of Trustees
• Directors of Quality Improvement
• Hospital Marketing

Webinar Objectives:

• The current status of global health care and medical tourism
• Strategies to become a part of “Hospitals Without Borders”
• How U.S. hospitals can become more competitive with the best foreign hospitals

Contact Hours: 

This course has been approved for 1.8 Iowa Nursing Contact Hours. There is usually a reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If you have any questions, please ask your state association.