-Location (Bronovo Ziekenhuis)
 -Capacity-Large no. of beds
 - A lot of medical and surgical sub-specialties (US News Ranking)
 - Level 1 trauma center and availability of urgent unit
 - Availability of library and training classrooms and equipment and enable scientific research (affiliated with Northwestern Medical)
 - Skilled and expertise medical staffs
 - On site testing equepments-- CT/MRI/LABS
 - Updated training and skills of medical and non-medical staff
 -Patient centered care
 -high standards of quality, cost-effectiveness and patient satisfaction
 
 
 

things to research on for this portion:
 patient waiting time?
 staffing for departments and workload? i.e.(occasional understaffed departments and high workload on hospital staffs?) we'd have to find out this information
 is there a negative to being an academic hospital?
 
 
 

- Location of hospital serves large population, more available connections, and resources.
 - Ease of the public transportation to the hospital
 - Well known hospital with good relationships and form collaboration with primary care facilities (referrals?)
 - Ability to expand in hospital departments and health care services
 

- Presence of highly qualified competitors near the hospital (Rush, Univ of Chicago, Advocate Healthcare Network)
 -insurance changes and medicaid/Medicare cut (not a large portion of payments, but still substantial at ~20%)
 - law suits and penalties by the Department of Health ( found this online as a general threat for all hospitals, we don't have to use it)