Johns Hopkins Medicine Strengths And Weaknesses

Introduction.

Johns Hopkins Medicine is an array of non-governmental and non-profit making organizations founded as a result of the philanthropic act of Johns Hopkins. They include: The Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins International. Johns Hopkins Medicine has strategic partnerships with Sibley Memorial hospital among others.

The purpose of Johns Hopkins Medicine is to pioneer research in the fields of medicine to help cure, suppress the causative agents as well as come up with new approaches to medicine. Altogether, Johns Hopkins Medicine includes six academic and community hospitals, four suburban health care and surgery centers. They also have more than 30 primary health care outpatient and inpatient centers, and a broad array of international and national patient programs. Johns Hopkins Medicine is situated in Maryland whereby they are the fore runners in the field of medicine, educational research and pioneers of alternatives to medicine. Nationally, the centers are the back bone of American medicine with great emphasis in neurosurgery among other fields.

Strengths and Weaknesses.

For more than a century they have been recognized as world leaders in patient care, medical research and teaching.

These achievements have been achieved due to strategic management by the management. The management is more related to that of any other firm or organization with emphasis being in the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities. The strengths are the propelling force that help the institutions under Johns Hopkins to achieve exemplary success in the fields of inpatient care, educational research and innovation. These strengths include: quality infrastructure, latest medical equipment, large financial resources and reserves to cater for the unseen, high trained medical doctors, nurses and technicians, large floor space that enables them to host extensive research

programs.
Although they have strengths, they have weaknesses such as: internal conflicts that paralyses the running of their activities, poor interpersonal skills among the different workers. Again, due to the size of the staff working there, the organizations have the challenging of managing them to increase their productivity.
Threats and Opportunities.
The success of Johns Hopkins is under the threats of: new medical challenges that test their ability to handle, lack of enough financial resources in the future to cover research and educational needs, lack of enough workforce and human resources to help them deliver to the public and help them achieve their objectives. The influx of other medical facilities and centers globally and nationally is also a threat as they have to prove that they are the best. Changes in regulations and laws governing medical centers are prone to change which may cause a hitch in the operations of the centers. The external environment has numerous opportunities such as: increased grants and donations, availability of new venture areas (areas that can be researched into), increased medical innovations among others.
Future Orientation and Insight.
The position of Johns Hopkins Medicine globally provides unlimited opportunities for the organizations to grow beyond borders into new geographical regions and into new fields of interests. Expansion of the medical industry will altogether propel and motivate Johns Hopkins Medicine to move forward. Research, strategic management are some of the parameters that will define the new face of Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Conclusion.
For any organization to succeed and prove significant in the current dynamic world, measures must be taken to strike a balance between the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The management must also be willing to have quality of their output uncompromised as clients are after quality. Lastly, happy clients will lead to a successful organization.