Carilion Clinic

1. Submit a case study analysis for Case Study #1 (referenced above) in a WORD document. Your analysis can be question driven, in other words, address the following questions correctly, and your case study will be complete:

• Identify the problems that Carilion Clinic faces as it seeks to become a comprehensive, vertically integrated health care provider. Rank these problems in terms of their difficulty of resolution for Carilion.
• Develop arguments to support Carilions efforts to become a comprehensive, vertically integrated health care system.
• Identify reasons why competition is useful and why it is not useful in terms of health care quality, cost, and access.
• Why could the Mayo Clinic develop a comprehensive, vertically integrated health care system, and Carilion Clinic seemingly cannot?
• Identify the advantages and disadvantages of internally developing specialty services to achieve vertical integration as compared with obtaining the same services by acquiring existing providers.