Business Case Analysis of the Special Care Unit at Moncrief Army Community Hospital

摘要

The goal of this project is to develop and evaluate four courses of action (COA) in order to determine the most efficient and effective method to care for Moncrief Army Community Hospitals Special Care Unit (SCU) inpatients. A common hypothesis shared by the author and many others at Moncrief was that the SCU was inefficient and much costlier than closing it and receiving the SCU care from the TRICARE network hospitals. This project, by analyzing the following options: COA 1- Close the SCU and Transport Future Inpatients to the UCC and Local Hospitals, COA 2- Close the SCU and Integrate Future Inpatients into the Medical Surgical Ward, COA 3- Close the SCU and Transport Future Inpatients to the Dorn VA Medical Center, and COA 4- Maintain the SCU in its Current Configuration, will help determine how Moncrief s SCU patients are seen in the future. A thorough analysis of the data strongly suggests that the hypothesis of this study should be rejected. Maintaining the SCU in its current configuration costs $338,964, versus closing it and receiving the care from TRICARE network hospitals at a cost of $479,471. This $140,507 difference equates to a very significant government cost savings.