1. What are the primary reasons health care facilities expand or are built?
2. What role does reimbursement for health care services, including ambulatory care, long-term care, and rehabilitative care, play in building new facilities for patients to receive care?
3. What factors should administrators consider before planning to build a new hospital or ambulatory surgical center?
4. How is the baby boomer generation going to impact the construction of new facilities for hospital care or nursing home care?
5. What is the impact of the uninsured population on hospitals and long-term care facilities and their ability to remain profitable?
6. Are wholly owned physician specialty hospitals harmful for the financial health of general community hospitals?
7. What is the impact on community hospitals from increased levels of competition from specialty hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, imaging centers, and physician offices?
8. What is the impact on rural communities from reduction in access to hospitals and physicians due to hospital closure or reduction of services whenever physicians leave a rural community?
9. What has your experience been relative to visiting loved ones in a nursing home? What improvements did you observe that should be made to enhance the care provided to residents in a long-term care environment?
10. What types of improvements in the layout of patient rooms can hospitals make to enhance the patient's stay at a hospital?