Healthcare Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning

Strategic planning is when a groups of decision makers for the organization sit down together and develop an agreed upon, step by step plan, which will allow the achievement of the organization’s mission and vision. This requires the group to utilize their critical thinking skills to develop SMART goals. These SMART goals can be used as benchmarks to ensure the plan they have created are meeting the group desired outcomes. This planning requires both an analytic and emergent approach.

Analytical Approach

Analytic approach is when management uses their knowledge of the capacity of their organization and effects of outside forces to develop a plan which follows a sensible progression of stages towards completion

It is composed of strategic thinking, strategic planning and managing strategic momentum. Strategic thinking is an intellectual process to envision where to take the organization. Strategic planning is the process of taking the ideas created using strategic thinking and turning it into reality. The planning process creates a step by step strategy to take the company. Once the plan is implemented, it will require managing strategic momentum. At this point, the plan can be adjusted to overcome any issues that have

The regulatory organization that has the largest impact upon health care is the Joint Commission. Joint Commission conducts assessments on health care organizations to ensure minimal safety standards are met. If a health care organization loses this accreditation, the organization loses its ability to collect money from federally funded health insurance programs, aka Medicare and Medicaid. Primary provider is an umbrella term which includes hospitals, public health organizations, doctor’s offices, and any other organization that actually provides health care/patient care services. These organizations are the first to change how health care is actual practices and delivered to the patients. They implement the policies and regulations that are created and enforced by outside agencies, which fall into the external environment category. Government institutions shape the laws that govern the health care industry. Laws and policies created by all levels of government, local, state, federal, determine how health care organizations operate in their jurisdiction. State and Federal governments also determine reimbursement rates for Medicare and Medicaid patients. When money is involved, health care organizations are quick to