FAP1_TASK_2_Trends_in_the_Ecosystem.docx C799 FAP1 - FAP TASK 2: TRENDS IN THE ECOSYSTEM Western Governors University Healthcare Ecosystems – C799 A.Discuss howONE historic, legislative, social, or economic event
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FAP1_TASK_2_Trends_in_the_Ecosystem.docx C799 FAP1 - FAP TASK 2: TRENDS IN THE ECOSYSTEM Western Governors University Healthcare Ecosystems – C799 A.Discuss howONE historic, legislative, social, or economic event impacted the growth of your chosen hospital: Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital of Pensacola has provided healthcare services to children in the communities of Northwest Florida and South Alabama for over 50 years. However, the facility lacked the space to accommodate everyone's needs. For the services it was unable to provide, children were referred to children's hospitals. According to Quint Studer, Pensacola News Journal (2019), children require special needs, and receiving reimbursement for these services is challenging. Subsequently, the number of children's hospitals are predominately located in "large metropolitan areas and on the campus of a teaching hospital because medical students, interns, and residents are readily available." Therefore, reducing the cost of services. This socially presented an unnecessary burden for the families in the local community. With the nearest children's hospital over 250 miles away in Birmingham, "a chronically ill kid that needs to be in a children's hospital bed often means you have to break the family apart" (Ascension Sacred Heart Foundation, 2020b). "In 2015, Susan Davis, the former CEO of Sacred Heart Health System," envisioned a children's hospital built in the Pensacola area. As Quint Studer, Pensacola News Journal (2019) continues, with "over 30 years in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .
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