Health Care, Mobility and Medical Centers
DAVE WHITE: We have a great panel for the afternoon and it is going to be led by Valerie Miller of the CTAA staff. You guys all met Valerie earlier this morning and many of you probably know her for her
Chapters
Introduction by Valerie Miller
Dan Dirks on Detroit Hospital Contracting
Scott Kosky on Hospital Contracting in SW MO
Tracy Walkup on Rural Hospital Contracting
Percentage of Hospital Transportation
Effect of the Economic Downturn
Detroit Hospital Competition
Audience Q&A
Patient Transport Between Care Facilities
Comments
Hospitals are interesting because they have very unique transportation needs. Great video!
That one clinic where they were able to calculate the cost of using the medical transportation versus the financial benefits it provided in terms of preventing cancellations and determine that they broke even provided an interesting sort of statistic. It would be interesting to see whether that cost/benefit, in purely financial terms, was fairly standard. In cases where public officials create budgets for transportation – or don't create those budgets – it could be significant, because the cost of not providing transportation is a much softer cost. This study - http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/tcrp/tcrp_webdoc_29.pdf - also points out that it is much harder to estimate the costs of medical transportation than the benefits.
A hospital took over all aspects of transportation in Marshall? This is really a fascinating idea. Rural transportation could be greatly improved if this were more common!