Zanesville, Cambridge and Coshocton hospitals continue to contract and falter under poor management actions and reactions to economic conditions. Ealier this year Genesis jettisoned it extended care facilities as they gasped and struggle to stay alive, now Coshocton is reeling from it's extended care debacle and selling it to Autum Healthcare which is able to make it in that tough business. Southeastern Med is now lamenting they don't get a bailout from the taxpayers to pay for upgrades to their hardware and software issues.

The tri-county consortium of hospitals got together to save money last year and that may have worked some but all three were more focused on what to gleen from the relationship in the form of selling services than they were on solving problems. Classic poor management not getting the big picture. What is the big picture you wonder? Simple, trim costs across the board until the company makes enough money to keep the business of caring for people profitable. Stop giving doctors and nurses raises when they are the reason all the big healthcare needs go elsewhere.

The locals are fed up with medical staff that do not want to work. How do patients know medical staff do not want to work?   Answer: They do not want to see the patients when they are sick. Patients do not want to give their big healthcare lifesaving dollars to a local system that won't care for them on a daily basis.

But wait, the title say's poor management! Your right it does, poor managers won't stand up to the lousy medical staff, so your local healthcare suffers because of poor or no management.