Medical Associates-Middleboro
Case Study Assignment
Case Overview:
Founded in 1951 and led by Dr. James R. Fairchild, a board-certified internist, Medical Associates is a physician group practice that expanded slowly and added other specialties in 1963. It has continued to expand over the years, and began to provide specialty and sub-specialty medical and surgical care in 1972. Medical Associates has also grown into a large tax paying medical group of forty physicians and two separate location in Middleboro and the eastern edge of Jasper which opened in 1972 and 1985 respectively. The practice was originally a single specialty practice but now has several specialties and sub-specialties in addition to ambulatory surgical services due to Dr. Fairchild advocating on behalf of multi-specialty medical care. Medical Associates provides services in cardiology, ENT, gastroenterology, general surgery, internal medicine, OB/GYN, orthopedic surgery, pediatrics, thoracic surgery, and urology. However, the practice struggles to provide an adequate amount of lab and imaging services. The board is battling many issues that are time sensitive and need to be fixed as quickly as possible such as staffing and insurances for example. They will need to remedy the situations before they become too hard to control and manage. A SWOT analysis of the organization, chart is attached at the end of this document, will be conducted to determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the Medical Associates practice in the hopes of fixing the problems. Next, the organization’s stakeholders must be identified in addition to identifying all of the problems within the organization. Finally, recommendations on the best solutions for the organization will be given after an analysis of alternative solution is conducted.

Much like many other organizations, Medical Associates