Today on Inland Journal, we talk with the chief executive of East Adams Healthcare in Ritzville about his facility’s struggle to stay solvent. Todd Nida says the hospital is working to overcome some past fiscal mismanagement, but also factors that challenge most rural hospitals in the Northwest.
“In a small rural community like Ritzville, it makes it very difficult because when you don’t have large volumes, you don’t have the ability to beef up ancillary services, other forms of clinic services, pain clinic, dermatology, cardiology, those type of things. Those are avenues where you can make better money in reimbursement through your payers and bolster your bottom line.”
Last week, medical students around the country learned about their first professional assignments as new physicians. We hear from two Spokane medical students about their future plans…