...Franciscan Alliance Learning Team B HCS/335 Health Care Ethics & Social Responsibility January 13, 2014 Claudia Unrein Introduction The Franciscan Alliance is a health care organization that provides access to the latest technology and offers a variety of health care services such as cancer care, rehabilitation, senior services, hospice, amongst other services. In 1875, a group of Catholic Sisters from Olpe brought St. Francis ministries of health and education to the Midwest United States, which late opened doors to the first hospital known as the Franciscan St. Elizabeth Health (The Franciscan Alliance, 2013). Later the sisters expanded the health system with more hospitals, orphanages, and homes for the elderly, founded by Mother Maria Theresia Bonzel (The Franciscan Alliance, 2013). In 2010, The Franciscan Alliance noticed the evolving changes and the need for healthcare services and decided to reinforce the shared capabilities for hospitals, as well as other health care facilities (The Franciscan Alliance, 2013). This health care organization has been services patients for over 135 years, has over 13 hospitals, and medical practices (The Franciscan Alliance, 2013). There are goals, code of ethics, and mission statements the organization has to adhere by provide the best services to its patients, in addition to, the social responsibility to the community. Goals, Ethical Principles, and Community The Franciscan Alliance is a large organization that is focused...
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...of evaluating an effective system designing.// System Design A systematic approach is very necessary in every organization to deal with business functions, whether the organization is a manufacturing or a service unit. The proper system design of an organization gives many advantages to an organization. The input, process and outputs are the parts of the system design. An evaluation of system design is very important to gain an advantage over the competitors. The system design of an organization can be evaluated by a series of check points. An effective system design supports management decisions. The affordability of the system should be aligned with the company's budget. The system cost should not be high. The time factor is used as a parameter to evaluate the performance of the system design. The system should be designed in such a way that it can reduce the operation time. The employees have to follow the operating system of the company, so the system should be easily understandable by the employees, otherwise it will not get support of the employees. A system design of the company supports the organization to face the contingency situations; it is called an effective system design. The inputs should be included after deep analysis (Wasson, 2005). //The role of the stakeholder is very important in every industry because stakeholder affects the organization and gets affected also. In this part of assignment we will make a discussion about various types of stakeholders...
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...accelerating improvements in the quality and value of health care for all Americans. Policymakers will be challenged to link investments in the health information infrastructure to the objectives of health care reform. The purpose of this paper is to articulate on why it is important to increase the likelihood of achieving high-value health care with the aid of health IT. Although the healthcare community has been clamoring for integration of its IT systems for decades, the industry is still in a rather elementary stage when it comes to useful and practical systems integration. Many think that the systems don’t support shared identities; they’re too focused on structured data, and that they don’t produce enough common output in a security-friendly way. However, by leveraging the Common Security Framework, healthcare organizations can now better manage risk; save time and expense that would be spent in determining their requirements and in auditing business associates; and increase information protection while better managing information security related expenses. Healthcare organizations in 2008 that was eager to develop health information exchanges (HIE) and regional health information networks (RHIO) also developed creative ways to assemble requests for proposals (RFP); clarify vendor expectations, and manage and resolve governance issues. Vendors received RFPs from states that had high hopes for data interchange but minimal funding. Other ventures were stymied by...
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...Bibliographical Entry Stefl, M. E., & Bontempo, C. A. (2008). Common competencies for all healthcare managers: the healthcare leadership alliance model. Journal of Healthcare Management, 53(6), 360. Biographical Sketch of Authors Author Mary E. Stefl, Ph.d received her B.A at Wittenberg University, then proceeded to the University of Cincinnati to complete her M.A and Ph. D. Currently, Stefl teaches quality control management, managerial empidemiology and leadership devlopement at Trinity University. Other than her academic achievements, Stefl also enhances her teaching with her experience as former chair of Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Services Administration (ACEHSA) and former chair member of the Board of Directors of the...
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...employment development and increased overall performance in the workplace.360 relates to Human Resources because it teaches the basic components of leadership. One can learn a great deal from the Alliance Unichem group such as how to handle conflict management, negotiation while understanding diverse perspectives of interpersonal communication. Human Resource Management is the function within an organization that handles the recruitment of, management of, and giving direction for the people who work in the organization. It also deals with issues related to people such as compensation, hiring, performance management, organization development, safety, wellness, benefits, employee motivation, communication, administration, and training. (Susan M. Heathfield). In the field of Human resource it is important to develop cost efficiency spending in the workplace. Furthermore, 360 sought to break the most common barriers found in the workplace lack of cost efficiency by designing a curriculum that would impede on leadership and yield great collaboration in the workplace. Human resources relates to Alliance Unichem because they both uphold the same tangible goal of improving on the strategic plans for the Healthcare Industry and expounding on innovativeness. In the Healthcare Organization Human Resource Management has a key role in helping with the costs involved in replacement, lost productivity, and temporary staffing. The pressures to increase workers pay, job benefits and to...
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...Costs Of Healthcare Christine Amargo HCA305 The U.S. Health Care System Sherry Grover June 9, 2014 Everyone wants to have access to health care and in order to access it they need insurance, but unfortunately not everyone can afford health insurance. The United States spends more money on health care than any other country, but raise the cost of health insurance to the citizens. Health care should be affordable if the government is willing to spend as much money as they are on it. Health insurance should be able to affordable to all classes lower, middle, and higher. The citizens of the United States has the right to know why their insurances cost are going up and if they are going to get more bang for their buck. The reason why healthcare cost is rising each year is because no one is managing the spending. Money is being spent between all accounts of healthcare and shared amongst each other. There needs to be a line where companies stop spending and try to manage the money they have if they don’t the cost of healthcare will just keep rising. The primary issues of healthcare cost are access to healthcare, and affordability of healthcare. The United States health care spending has been growing rapidly for many years, but many citizens are without appropriate health care. This is affecting the two governments major health insurance Medicaid and Medicare and the private insurance companies. As the health care spending rises, the citizens will be faced with difficult choices...
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...Mary’s has joined Stratus Healthcare, the largest alliance of healthcare providers in the southeastern United States. St. Mary’s Health Care System and Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. As a mission-driven, innovative health organization, we will become the national leader in improving the health of our communities and each person we serve. We will be the most trusted health partner for life (St. Mary's Health Care System, 2015). The agreement includes St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens and St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital in Greensboro. “By affiliating with Stratus Healthcare, St. Mary’s will be able to work closely with other member hospitals and physicians in central and South Georgia to improve the health of the communities we serve and efficiencies and quality improvements this alliance will create. St. Mary’s, like all Stratus partners, shares a common goal of providing patients with the right access to the right care, at the right cost. The collaborative partnership sets the stage for innovation while providing an alternative to mergers and acquisitions in a changing healthcare climate. Stratus Healthcare serves as a vehicle to keep healthcare local with the goal to improve outcomes, enhance the patient experience and increase efficiency as required by healthcare reform (St. Mary's Joins Stratus Health, 2015). Since its inception, Stratus Healthcare workgroups have developed...
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...education, and healthcare, which has put a positive impact on the Middle East. Although, a challenger could say that oil has impacted the Middle East negatively because it has started wars, but, in...
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...managers utilize to carry out process in the health care industry: planning, organizing, staffing, controlling, directing, and decision making (Chapter Chapter 1: An Overview of Healthcare Management). Planning, which means setting priorities and determining performance targets, is needed to be able to ascertain which direction and end goals are needed to meet the overall spectrum of the organization. Organizing involves knowledge of the overall design of the organization and designating reporting relationships and intentional patterns of interaction (Thompson, Buchbinder, & Shanks, 2012, Chapter Chapter 1: An Overview of Healthcare Management). This would apply in the workplace as determining positions, assignments, and the distribution of authority and responsibility within the scope of the managerial role. Staffing, controlling and directing all involve identifying characteristics of the workforce and applying those toward the overall need of the organization. Developing and maintaining the workforce, assessing and correcting the workforce to obtain optimal performance, and the ability to communicate, lead, and motivate subordinates are all necessary criteria of management functions such as staffing, controlling, and directing (Thompson, Buchbinder, & Shanks, 2012, Chapter Chapter 1: An Overview of Healthcare Management). Critical to all the other functions of management...
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...Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) When some doctors, healthcare providers and hospitals get together to give their patients a high quality and well coordinated care, forms an organization. This organization is known as Accountable care organizations. ACOs are based on integrated systems of delivery and posses a range of doctors and physicians, virtually connected. The aims of this organization is to look after the patient and deliver them right treatment at the right time and also coordinate all the efforts so not to overlap or repeat anything. This results in reduction of the medical errors. This procedure saves the cost of medical treatment. Another important aim is to stop spread of diseases through preventive measures and spreading education. The most important objective is to bring reduction in costs and reduce the waste of money in healthcare system. The conditions which will result in ACOs,if physicians and other related professionals are practicing in a group, or they have form a network or there exists a collaborations between physicians, hospitals and professionals. If these conditions exist anywhere it will be called as ACOs. The requirements any ACOs need to fulfill are, it must have a formal legal framework to distribute the savings, it should possess a minimum of 5,000 numbers of beneficiaries, it should agree to take part for three years or so. An organization must fulfill these requirements to form a ACOs. (American Hospital Association, 2010) This new treatment...
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...Accountable Care Organizations: Key to Transforming Healthcare? The Talia Goldsmith, MHA Candidate 2011 Suffolk University Sawyer Business School HLTH 890AE: Healthcare Strategic Management Professor Richard H. Gregg, M.A., M.B.A. April 28, 2011 Table of Contents Objective .....................................................................................................................................3 Introduction ..............................................................................................................................3 Overview of ACOs as a Mandate and an Opportunity for Healthcare Organizations............................................................................................................................4 Examples of Missions, Visions, Values and Goals for ACOs........................................6 Mission ................................................................................................................................................. 6 Vision ....................
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...B Bailey Health Reform Plan The Clinton Healthcare Plan of 1993 also known as the Health Security Act was a package presented under the direction of President Bill Clinton. His presidency started on January 20, 1993 and lasted until January 20, 2001. During his 1992 presidential election, Clinton pushed for this bill to be passed by Congress. “After nine months of brainstorming and politicking, President Clinton delivered to Congress today a 240,000-word proposal for universal health insurance” (Pear, 1993). This manifesto was the most multiplex, comprehensive plan conveyed by any President. Under the Clinton plan, most Americans would get health insurance coverage only in regional alliances. “ A company with more than 5,000 full-time employees could operate its own health insurance program outside the alliances. People working at company headquarters would be in the corporate health plan” (Pear, 1993). If there were employees of a large company that worked in another state with 100 or less than they were able to join the local alliance there. The Clinton Healthcare Plan of 1993 would supply additional treatment of helping. “Mr. Clinton said his proposal would provide much more coverage of preventive services than is usually found in private health insurance plans” (Pear, 1993). The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 also known as Obamacare is a United States federal law signed in by President Obama on March 23, 2010. This law, jointly with the...
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...[pic] Table of Contents Executive Summary 2-6 External Analysis 7-13 Internal A ,mnalysis 14-17 Functional Analysis 18-21 Business-Level Strategy 22-24 Corporate Level Strategy 25-27 Strategy Implementation 28-30 References 31 Executive Summary A Customer’s Hope Eli Lilly and Company is on a mission that benefits millions of people every day by helping them live longer and fuller lives. They provide their customers with answers that matter—life saving and enhancing medicines. They carry out this mission by discovering, developing, and marketing pharmaceutical therapies. Many of the pharmaceutical products Lilly brings to market are first-in-class, providing customers a therapeutic relief that did not exist. An example of this is their newly FDA-cleared drug, Xigris™, which helps thousands of people every day by treating the potentially fatal condition of sepsis. The Lilly research team persevered over two decades to bring Xigris™ to fruition, even when over ten other companies failed to produce a viable drug remedy for sepsis (Eli Lilly Annual Report 2001). This dedication truly exemplifies Lilly’s commitment to their customers and transcends into all their efforts. Eli Lilly continues to be a successful pharmaceutical company, while other pharmaceutical companies have seen their success erode, because of the strategies they employ. Lilly has focused on building partnerships rather than acquisitions...
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...program because there is continual difficulty in recruiting well qualified instructors. Discussion: In order for Middlefield Hospital to remain in business, we must offer cost effective quality care to our customers. We must also change our operational strategy to develop a new strategic marketing plan for offering services in our community. This will require us to think out of the box when it comes to investing in our employees in order to retain the best and brightest for the future of our company. In addition, we must improve our community relations and form a strategic alliance with the local university to ensure the pipeline of new recruits continues to come through our doors for careers in the nursing and healthcare fields. Finally, we need to develop a strategic alliance with our competition to ensure we close the gap on market share for reimbursement and inpatient and outpatient healthcare cost. Analysis: Middlefield Hospital (MFH) is not performing because it has neglected its operation strategy and failed to take advantage of its...
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...HMA1: Trends in Healthcare Western Governors University Healthcare Management Case Study HMA1 Linda Gunn August 21, 2010 HMA1: Trends in Healthcare The American healthcare system is in the midst of change. No other time in history has the call for healthcare reform been so strong. It is the emergence of expensive new technologies with an aging population and a new call for equitable quality access of health services for all citizens that have pushed for the impending change. Successful managers will need to understand the impetus for this change. The challenges will provide many opportunities for a manager that is properly prepared to lead and guide their organization. Model trends in the United States. Historically, the United State’s healthcare system has been provider dominated. Physicians ordered and directed care without concern for cost or resources. While complex and ever-changing, the focus was on treatment of infectious diseases such as polio, influenza, small pox. (Shortell & Kaluzny, 2006) Our current model of healthcare places much of the responsibility and burden of the cost of medical care on the individual. American healthcare spending approaches 17% of our gross domestic product (GDP), the highest of any member of the World Health Organization. Our performance consistently underperforms in comparison to our peer nations in such measures as life expectancy, infant mortality and overall level of health. (World Health Organization [WHO], 2000) ...
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