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Friday, January 12, 2018

A little learning is a dangerous thing

Every generation needs a revolution - an entrepreneurial revolution

Rizal Philippines
January 13, 2018

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The growth area in the economy is health care. The external environment, the PESTEL has favored that:

         1. Growing population;
         2.  More lifestyle diseases because of pollution and modernization
         3.  Philhealth and govt supoort for universal health care
         4.  Open loan windows from govt banks to groups wanting to put up hospital. Thus a group of 30 to 50  doctors can put up a hospital of 100 beds or more to the tune of  P300 to P500 million.

Land Bank finance ACE hospital project in Ilollo


       But this post sees problems dark clouds ahead.  While there are many successful hospital ventures the stories I have been hearing do not forebode well  for the future of many MD hospitals  Even while teaching at MBAH I have heard horror stories about the faults in hospital management by the professionals.

    Such was encountered by Ms. Rose Montenegro - Reyes in turning around  Makati Med. The MDs should be allowed to practice what they know best -  patient care and curing illnesses. About managing.... leave it the professional  managers and other technicians    The MDs as in their case  were responsible for bringing the hospital to the brink.

How Rose turned around Makati Med

    One of her solutions was to divide the management of the hospital between  that  of running the curing side, and administrative side..... MDs cure, managers manage  And thus she  was able to turn around Makati Med.

   Some MDs management run hospital on basis of democracy ie giving management responsibility to those whose expertise are  more or less in the MD side. and infighting or mismanagement allowing to prospper

  Some take up MBAH or even had MBA MD degree.  Let us just see what is going to happen in the long term.

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