The vision of Banner Healthcare is “We will be a national leader recognized for clinical excellence and innovation, preferred for a highly coordinated patient experience, and distinguished by the quality of our people” (Our Non-Profit Mission, 2015). Banner spans over seven different states including Arizona, Alaska, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming. This healthcare system is a non-profit organization that aims to service its communities in returning all profit made into regenerating the community. According to the Banner Health this reinvestment goes towards new hospital beds, expanding patient care services, new physician services, new technology, maintaining existing equipment and facilities and paying employees’ salaries. By giving back to the community in such a large capacity, it enables both patients and physicians the incentive to continue utilizing the system that ultimately saves billions in healthcare revenue costs annually.
Addressing the health care needs of citizens of the United States in the next decade is no small task. Like many hospitals and health care systems, Banner compiles data to highlight the ingenuity behind the machine that it banner and Medicare. The Care Management program that banner deploys gathers data from each of their twenty-five hospitals and measures the performance against national standards to improve how patient care is executed. Through finding strengths and weaknesses the health care is then reengineered and the weakness exemplified to provide for further improvement. “The $5 billion nonprofit system achieved this (net savings) by embracing the following four tenets in a cost reduction approach that is aligned with core values in healthcare—enlisting the empathy, collaboration, and engagement that characterize the best care delivery”(Dahlen & Bailey, 2013). Generally cutting corners and transformations