The tension in hospital-physician relationships is a long-standing and widely acknowledged concern.

The tension in hospital-physician relationships is a long-standing and widely acknowledged concern. A productive relationship between hospitals and physicians is essential to good patient care and improvement in organizational clinical goals and outcomes. You are completing this assignment to demonstrate your understanding of recommended strategies for improving hospital-physician relations and clinical goals and outcomes. Assume the role of the hospital CEO for this case. The hospital board of directors has reviewed the average length of stay and has asked you to better align physician-hospital clinical goals and outcomes. The board also wishes to improve the existing relationship between the hospital and physicians. The case states, two doctors consistently keep too many of their patients in the hospital longer than the average length of stay for several diagnosis-related groups. They say their patients are older and sicker and that they are practicing higher-quality medicine. What do you say to them? In 500 words or less, prepare a response to the board in memo format that identifies three strategies you would undertake to better align hospital-physician clinical goals and outcomes. Provide supporting rationale for why you believe each strategy would work. Finally, in one paragraph, describe one action you would undertake as CEO to improve hospital-physician relations.