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Howard County General Hospital (HCGH) is a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Howard County General Hospital established in 1973, mission is to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service excellence, diversity and a commitment to patient safety is carried through in all that we do (Howard County General Hospital).
59 bed short stay facility, an independent, not-for-profit hospital
1998, entered into a strategic partnership with Johns Hopkins Medicine
Expenditures total approximately 235 million per year
Salaries and benefits of approximately 112 million
More than 300 volunteers contributed over 23,000 hours of service
Business situation
As a result of the recovery of the market, Howard County Hospital want to procure a leading role in investing in the community it serves with a rewarding lifestyle, professional development. Product by promoting a culture that diversity within the community and the work place changing standing out and showing who we are as an organization. Furthermore, in order to understand the companies need the organization requirement in uphold the market using the dynamic of the four Ps product, price, place and
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Still, over the years the hospital continues to expand and transition while less than six years later, we are expecting another adjusted in the subsequent three years due to the development expansion in the community, and we feel our need to grow as well. Community involvement, Where is the competitive doing and how well are they doing, could make it possible my organization to top what other organizations are doing and how we can take it to the next level and make it a better product for our organization? During the E-Huddles suggesting plans for Compliance rates in providing patient monitoring and documentation updating the staff through a practice
In this case, the reader learns that liquidity is a better than average. The ratio and cash on hand have been better than 2013 from the past years. Moreover, it shows that the hospital has a higher ability to meet its cash obligation because it has more security compared to other hospitals. Funding allows hospitals to control funds and limit investments. Not-for-profit organizations help provide more services and margin of safety. Therefore, creditors look for a margin of safety so that the community that financed a small portion of total financing can be returned to the owners by leveraging. Capitalization ratio measures the funds that were borrowed and the assets that have been used. The coverage ratio measures the number that time they fixed financial charges. The time's interest earned ratio shows the ability of the hospital to meet
CAH needs to add value to be able get more patients that will increase the profits for CAH. One way for CAH to add value would be to focus on disease management. Take diabetes, the patient would see a primary care doctor, got to an optometrist and get their labs done together and the providers would communicate with each other to make sure the patient is getting the care they need. The primary care doctor could make sure that the patients are reminded of when their next appointments are. Using web-based health also would help to add value ("Capturing the Value from Value-Added Services"). The Veterans Affairs Administration uses a web-based health notification system to allow patients to know what their lab results are and to refill prescriptions from their home that would then be mailed to
Given the long duration of patient quality problems, over ten years, at SGH, the communication plan may need to include not only the internal SGH stakeholders such as employees, but also external stakeholders both in the community, shareholders, and third party vendors. SGH is at greater business risk due to their previous attempts at improving quality and now potential lack of stakeholder confidence. Including stakeholders in the change management process allows the stakeholder’s viewpoint to coevolve with SGH to create a shared view of the change plan and how to measure change success (Windsor, 2010). Engaging with the stakeholders in change plan definition and focuses their energy on helping SGH with the change process, rather than undermining it (Windsor, 2010). Identifying all of the stakeholders for SGH, and engaging them in change communications and planning will assist SGH leadership in evolving the hospital towards a high patient quality
General Practices Affiliates is considering an offer from Titus Lake Hospital to join under a provider leasing model. Under a provider leasing model, Titus Lake Hospital is purchasing General Practices Affiliates’ services. The practice will retain control of personnel, management, and practice policies. Titus Lake Hospital submitted financial reports to assure transparency during the lease agreement process. The following analysis will discuss whether Titus Lake hospital is a viable financial partner for General Practice Affiliates, possible implications of the lease, and recommendations.
This paper’s brief intent is to identify the policies and procedures currently being developed at Midwest Hospital. It identifies how the company’s Management Committee was formed and how they problem solved and delegated responsibilities. This paper recognizes the hospital’s greatest attributes and their weakest link. Midwest Hospital hired Dr. Herb Davis to help facilitate the development and implementation of resolutions for each issue.
The cost of Medical equipment plays a significant role in the delivery of health care. The clinical engineering at Victoria Hospital is an important branch of the hospital team management that are working to strategies ways to improve quality of service and lower cost repairs of equipments. The team members from Biomedical and maintenance engineering’s roles are to ensure utilization of quality equipments such as endoscope and minimize length of repair time. All these issues are a major influence in the hospital’s project cost. For example, Victory hospital, which is located in Canada, is in the process of evaluating different options to decrease cost of its endoscope repair. This equipment is use in the endoscopy department for gastroenterological and surgical procedures. In 1993, 2,500 cases where approximately performed and extensive maintenance of the equipment where needed before and after each of those cases. Despite the appropriate care of the scope, repair requirement where still needed. The total cost of repair that year was $60,000 and the repair services where done by an original equipment manufacturers in Ontario.
Henry Ford Hospital (2016) is also affiliated with Wayne State University Medical School. The hospital is recognized for clinical excellence and innovation in several fields including: cardiology and cardiovascular surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics and sports medicine, organ transplants, and treatment for prostate, breast and lung cancers (Henry, 2016). Marketing is a key aspect of any organization. Marketing is defined as the activities and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings for clients, customers, partners, and society as a whole (Rooney, 2009). Specifically, Henry Ford Hospital is a nonprofit organization. Non-profit marketing is defined as a management process of exchanges undertaken by NPOs, and aimed at generating a social benefit to a more or less wider group of society (Garcia & Gonzalez, 2013). Current challenges in marketing that the hospital has will be discussed, as well as how segmentation and target marketing are applied at Henry Ford Hospital. Lastly, how the organization’s services are positioned to meet the demands of the target market will be
“For the 21st consecutive year, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) secured its place on the U.S. News & World Report’s Honor Roll of America’s Best Hospitals, ranking ninth. The Honor Roll highlights just 18 hospitals, out of nearly 5,000 nationwide, for their rare breadth and depth of clinical excellence. In the grading of the best hospitals, BWH ranks among the top 10 in six categories: Cancer, Cardiology and Heart Surgery, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Gynecology, Nephrology and Rheumatology. BWH places in the top 20 in Geriatrics, Orthopedics, Pulmonology and Neurology and Neurosurgery.” (Brigham and Women’s and Faulkner Hospitals, 2013)
Huntsville Hospital (HH), located in Northeast Alabama, part of the Huntsville Hospital Health System, originating in downtown Huntsville, Alabama in the late 1800’s. As the not-for-profit, public hospital system developed, HH became the second largest employer in Madison County, Alabama with an estimated 7000 employees, 2000 nurses and 1000 physicians.
Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). Staff Analysis Statement of Problem HCA, after following a conservative financial policy since its establishment, has entered the new decade preparing to make some changes in order to realign their financial strategy and capital structure. Since its establishment, HCA has often been used as a measure for the entire proprietary hospital industry. Is it now time for the market to realign their expectations for the industry as a whole? HCA has target goals that need to be met in order to accomplish milestones in the future.
An organizational analysis is an important tool to become familiar with how medical businesses and organizations are able to meet standards of care, provide services for the community and provide employment to health care providers. There are many different aspects to evaluate in an organizational analysis. This paper will describe these many aspects and apply the categories to the University Medical Center (UMC) as the organization being analyzed.
The company shows a flat organization in which there are few layers of management but has broad span of control. According to the chart, the company develops a decentralized authority in the level of their management due to which they focus more on adapting to what customer wants based on decision making from the lower level managers who are more familiar in the local conditions. This type of authority allows them to understand customers such as patients’ needs in order to develop strategies to fulfill this requirement According to Figure 1, they primarily focus more on the health care system and invested in about $7.5 billion dollars in research and development to create a strong product portfolio. The culture of this organization demonstrates a formal organization in order to guide the lines of authority as well as the responsibility for the company. According to Johnson and Johnson Credo statement, their main focus is towards the responsibilities of the doctors, nurses, and patients as well as their employees. They also state their growing responsibilities toward the shareholders and to the communities in order to research and develop new innovations in towards civic improvement to the communities. This entails that they fully care for their customers and employees in which its shows in
My current employer, Mayo Clinic, is a world renowned not-for-profit hospital that has been established for 150 years. Mayo Clinic is the first and biggest integrated not-for-profit medical group practice in the world and is a well-known brand name that is recognized world-wide. Working for an organization where the primary value is the needs of the patient come first, the organizations domain is held to a higher standard. The mission statement is to encourage hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to all patients through integrated clinical practice, education and research (Strategic statement of Mayo Clinic, 2012). The vision statement is that Mayo Clinic will offer an unparalleled experience as the most trusted partner for health care (Strategic statement of Mayo Clinic, 2012). In the medical field, innovations, research and technology motivate the business to perform and deliver care in a new standard. Mayo Clinic has a logo of three shields that are interlocked, presenting patient care, research and education.
In this unit, we will be discussing real-life healthcare organizations, the 5 P’s of healthcare marketing, and evaluation strategies that may be used to determine marketing potential.
Organizational change deals with changing from how things were previously done to innovations that are aimed at introducing better results. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the cost reducing changes implemented at HSC pediatric center through electronic supply tagging and the introduction of the Omnicell. This paper will also discuss how communication and education make organization change more efficient.