Carefully read Edgewood Lake Hospital: Leadership in a Rural Healthcare Facility during Challenging Economic Times, Case # $7,$ in your Cases in Health Services Management $(6$th ed$.)$ book. After reading the case study, please complete the following task:

For this assignment, you will be assuming the persona of Ms$.$ Shannon Johnson, the recently hired CEO of Edgewood Lake Hospital. Given challenging economic times, both inside and outside the nation$$s healthcare system, you must provide strong leadership while determining how to make Edgewood Lake Hospital profitable in $2$ years $($by $2018).$ Having experienced losses from $2013$ to $2016,$ the board gave you the challenge when hiring you. Finally, while solving the current fiscal situation and developing a plan to ensure fiscal health, you must also address the hospital$$s glaring physician recruitment problems, particularly in general surgery and primary care. If successful, the board hopes you can stabilize the hospital$$s executive leadership team and inspire increased staff productivity and performance. You have used the past few months to conduct an internal and external environmental assessment $($scan$),$ which is captured in the case study. Now, you need to identify critical issues adversely affecting the hospital$$s performance, prioritize the issues using supporting rationale, and propose $$next steps$$ with appropriate justification. This information should be included in a business memorandum to Ms$.$ Hernandez, Chairperson of the Board of Edgewood Lake Hospital. It may be necessary to include an attachment to the memo; however, this is something you$$ll need to determine when getting ready to draft your memo.