Problem

Where are we now? What is the competitive position of your employer, a rural hospital, with regard to rival hospitals: Good? Average? Weak? What problems does your company have that need to be addressed? Support your answers with research from scholarly sources and be cited and referenced using proper APA formatting (6thed).

Our rural hospital struggles with being between two bigger cities with full access. The popping up of the stand alone ER's; offering less services do to being smaller; funding isn't as much for rural hospitals

As a critical access hospital, pros are low wait times in the E.R.; easy access to the ambulatory services with quality care; have won several national awards despite our size; patient to nurse ratio is lower than the bigger hospitals