...Memo To: New Health Medical Systems management From: Date: Re: Evaluation of the staffing strategy Section 1- Introduction The following memo will evaluate New Health Medical Systems staffing strategy to determine how well it aligns with the new strategic goal and the requirement to fill 35 new positions. An innovative staffing strategy is to be generated by the director of staffing which involves: • Placement of ads in the local dailies • Approach staffing agencies specializing in placing technicians in hospitals • Organize job fairs and encourage local talent to attend • Offer a signing bonus of $1,000 to any person who joins the company and works for a minimum of 6 months I will also address any changes or additional recommendations that should be done to the staffing strategy in order to meet the organizations goals. Section 2 - Staffing Strategy Alignment New Health Medical Systems should decide on procedure that will work efficiently and align with the company's new strategic direction so as to obtain the technicians needed for their new cardiovascular unit. “This is an ideal time to evaluate how the work may have changed since the employees were initially hired and how you might enhance your talent mix by redefining job requirements.” (Messmer, 1999) New Health Medical Systems needs to focus on staffing strategically in order to meet the company’s objective of becoming a regional center for critically...
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...University of Phoenix Material Week One Individual Assignment: New Health Medical Systems Memo As an HR Consultant to New Health Medical Systems, you have been asked to evaluate the company’s staffing strategy to determine how well it aligns with the new strategic goal and the requirement to fill 35 new positions. Scenario New Health Medical Systems is a large hospital and healthcare system in the southwestern part of the United States. The Board of Directors recently announced a new strategic direction to become a regional center for critically ill patients. As a part of that strategy, the organization has opened a new cardiovascular unit, where patients can receive care for heart attacks, strokes and other types of cardiovascular disease. The organization was quickly able to recruit a quality physician to head the unit. Additional professional staff was also relatively easy to find; however, finding qualified technicians has become much more difficult than originally anticipated. The problem doesn't seem to be so much in terms of being attractive to candidates, but rather a lack of skilled technicians in the immediate region. Most of the skilled technicians are already employed, and are not actively seeking jobs with other organizations. The director of staffing for the organization has been asked to create a new staffing strategy to fill the 35 new positions in this department. After considering alternatives, she is recommending the following. 1. Place advertisements...
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...ways of communicating such as; face to face meetings, overhead announcements, letters, emails and memos. These are just a few ways companies communicate within their organization. The inventory of various communication channels used within an organization includes e-mails, and face-to-face meetings. These channels are among two of the most effective ways of communicating within an organization. E-mail is a fast and efficient channel most frequently utilized. This channel is used because most employees in my organization work in the field, and emails allow them to respond to their colleagues in a timely manner. Computerized communication has several advantages, according to the book Health Promotion and Interactive Technology (Street, Gold, & Manning, 1997): Most organizations in the health field use this type of communication to obtain messages throughout the organization more rapidly. The messages sent out, are based on updates, events, information about the job, Job openings, and request of medical information. This information is delivered from one department to another. This channel of communication also can be used to send medical information to other doctor’s office. This is a good source of communication when it is disseminating health information of patients or self. The opportunity for feedback and response improves the chances for effective communication. Electronic systems are an effective way to communicate, based on the delivery, and the response. Face-to Face meetings...
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...New Health Medical Systems Memo HRM 548 March 9, 2015 New Health Medical Systems Memo Memorandum To: New Health Medical Systems Management From: Human Resources Date: March 10, 2015 Re: Staffing Strategy A thorough review and evaluation has been taken over the new staffing strategy presented in regards to changes to the New Health Medical Systems Corporation. The company is seeking to strategize a plan that will take the company in a new strategic direction. Rivenbark, (2004) stated that the human resources employee’s role includes, acquisition, assessment, development and retention within the organization. (p. 1). Since recruitment has presented a challenge within the local area, we may need to consider a wider and very diverse demographic in order to fill those positions. There is the option of utilizing social media outlets and radio outlets. Social media and radio outlets have a farther marketing reach. In addition to the media outlets, one may need to consider the outlying areas where there may be talent that fits our criteria. Once the ad goes viral on social media and the media plays the ads on the air; this will open the door for employee referrals. One important thing to consider is that if the audience that the media reaches does not have a need for the position, he or she may know someone who does. If this is the case then we can pay employee referrals. The referral amount should be large enough to entice the referrals to apply, which will assist...
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...New Health Medical Systems Memo Alicia Wilson HRM/548 April 29,2013 Sharon Merrill New Health Medical Systems Memo Memorandum To: New Health Medical Systems From: HR Consultants Date: April 29, 2013 RE: New Staffing Strategy Evaluation To align with the new strategy of becoming a regional center for critically ill patients New Health must effectively staff the center. Staffing is the process of acquiring, deploying, and retaining a workforce of sufficient quantity and quality to positively impact an organization’s effectiveness (Henenman & Judge, 2009). Recruitment of a qualified department head and professional support staff has been completed successfully. Additional technical staff is needed and required to align with the strategy. This has not been an easy task. The director of staffing has made four recommendations in staffing the technical team. These four recommendations include: advertising locally, reaching out to staffing agencies that specialize in placing health care technicians, hosting a job fair to local professionals, and offering a $1,000 signing bonus to recruits who remain with New Health for at least 180 days. Local Advertising Choosing to only advertise locally offers a significant disadvantage to New Health. Local skilled technicians are currently employed, and are not searching for employment with another organization. Response to local advertising would not yield many applicants, if any. Expanding the advertisement regionally may warrant...
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...hundreds of technical issues and outages. The Electronic Medical Records system of Kaiser Permente has been nothing short of an IT project gone awry. Questions began to rise when Cliff Dodd, the company’s CIO, resigned. Dodd stepped down January 14, 2010 after another Kaiser employee, Justin Deal, sent a memo to every company worker warning of technological and financial repercussions related to the rollout of the nearly $4 billion system from Epic Systems Corp. Deal said he also sent letters to Kaiser management expressing his concerns. But in internal memos, officials said they investigated those concerns and denied that the implementation of the Health Connect system has been a failure. The system is suppose to give more than 100,000 of Kaiser’s physicians and employees instant access to the medical records of some 8.6 million patients, along with e-messaging capability, computerized order entry and electronic prescribing. In addition, the system is suppose to integrate appointment scheduling, registration and billing functions and will offer various features to Kaiser members through KP.org. A power outage on May 9, 2009 at Kaiser’s data center in Corona, California, lasted for 55 hours and 7 minutes and affected the ability of numerous health care facilities to access the Health Connect system. This outage affected every Kaiser Permente region. Providers/clinicians across KP would not have access to medical information to treat members, process lab and pharmacy requests...
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...The goal of healthcare, above all, is to provide medical assistance to those who need it. A good healthcare system invests in a patient’s long-term health, provides necessary treatments for all patients, allows patients to have autonomy over who provides them with healthcare, and transparently conducts all monetary transactions. Currently, the US healthcare system hardly achieves any of these goals. We face a trilemma of healthcare: lack of universal coverage, high health care spending, and low-quality care. Additionally, the US healthcare system is too complicated for users to understand, severely lacks in terms of preventative care, and is overly influenced by big private investors and for-profit insurance providers who lobby in Congress....
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...Conflicting Federal and State Medical Marijuana Policies: A Threat to Cooperative Federalism Todd Grabarsky* Abstract The legal status of medical marijuana in the United States is something of a paradox. On one hand, federal government has placed a ban on the drug with no exceptions. On the other hand, over one-third of the states have that legalizes the cultivation, distribution, and consumption of the drug for medical purposes. As such, the usage of medical marijuana is an activity that is at the same time proscribed (by the federal government) and encouraged (by state governments through their systems of regulation and taxation). This Article seeks to shed light on this unprecedented nebulous zone of legality in which an activity is both legal and illegal, an issue that one scholar on the subject has deemed “one of the most important federalism disputes in a generation.” The issue has become heightened as two states have legalized marijuana for recreational (non-medical) purposes as a result of recent 2012 Election. This Article examines the issue from a federalism perspective. It begins by arguing that unpredictable enforcement by federal authorities in states that have legalized medical marijuana not only threatens state drug policy, but also the efficacy of federal enforcement. This argument is based on the premise that the federal drug ban exists as a cooperation between the states and the federal government. That the federal government relies on the assistance...
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...New Medical Systems Memo "Staffing is a critical organizational function concerned with the acquisition, deployment and retention of the organization's workforce" (Heneman & Judge, 2009, pg 1, pp 1). Staffing should involve certain basic principles, which help in managing the human resources of an organization. An organization should have a strong staffing strategy, which helps it in achieving its goals and objectives (Renckly, 2003). Alignment of Staffing Strategy with Company’s Strategic Direction To fill the 35 new positions in the hospital, the director of staffing of New Health Medical Systems proposed the following staffing alternatives: * Placing the advertisement for the candidates in the local newspaper * Contacts with the staffing and placement agencies for the technicians into health care facilities * Organizing a job fair to invite local professionals * Offering bonus of $1000 to the candidate at the time of joining the organization for at least for 180 days The strategic options of placing the advertisement in the local newspaper and contacting to the placement and staffing agencies are very effective for the health care system (From Given Scenario). This way the health care system would be able to create awareness among the skilled technicians. The next option of organizing a job fair is also one of the most important tools for the health care system. This job fair will allow the organization to scrutinize skilled technicians among the common...
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...Health Care Communication Methods HCS/320 Health Care Communication Strategies May 18, 2015 Kelly Hernandez Health Care Communication Methods Option 1: Nursing Home Administrator As the Nursing home administrator it is my responsibility to ensure that communication between all staff members’ residents, and family members regarding the new policies of this facility which are in effect immediately. With the purchase of the national group, I will have to make sure that I understand the new policies and determine the best way to communicate it to the entire staff. In addition, I will have to make sure that they are in compliance with the HIPAA rules and regulations which states that all physicians and covered entity know that patient health information is covered. A meeting would have to be set up with the all employees of the facility to explain to them how the new policies and procedures will be implemented, and what they will have to do to ensure they are followed so that the patients can continue to receive quality care. As I meet with the medical staff to discuss the change in ownership, as well as the new policies and how they will be implemented, I will be reminding them that before any information can be given out about a patient a notice of privacy has to be communicated to the patient explaining how we will be giving out this information. We will then submit to each staff member in the form of a memo, and for those who were not able to attend the meeting,...
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...Organizational Structure and Function Project NUR/587 November 18, 2013 Anna Rivera Organizational Structure and Function Project DATE: November 18, 2013 * TO: The Administrative Board FROM: Human Resource Department SUBJECT: New position request for Nurse Manager The information provided in this memo is for the new Nurse Manager position on the sub- acute unit of the Alaris Health is Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center. The purpose of this memo is to provide the Nursing Administration department the necessary information to be communicated with the incumbent Nurse Manager. The Alaris Health is a 222-bed facility providing long term care to senior citizens, sub-acute services such as intravenous therapy, diabetic teaching, pain management, wound care, and comprehensive rehabilitation services to the patients recovering from surgery. The Alaris Health at is dedicated to our patients and embraces innovative nursing methods based on evidence in practice to improve the health care we provide. We believe in self-governance in our nursing staff. The Alaris Health nursing administration supports self-governance to foster excellence in nursing professionalism. The nursing administration includes a Director of Nursing, Chief Medical Officer, Assistant Director of Nursing, and an Administrator. The Director of Nursing Services serves as a guidance-mentor and provides support as needed to ensure accountability of nursing professionalism. We recognize all our nursing...
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...Merger Memo Learning Team B: Kathryn Alvino, Nadia Ge, Delores Jones, Wanda Soderberg-Beck University of Phoenix Author Note: This paper is being submitted on January 30, 2015, for Dr. Kale Kruger’s HCS/514 Managing in Today’s Health Care Organizations course. Merger Memo MEMORANDUM TO: All Employees FROM: Management Team DATE: January 30, 2015 SUBJECT: Healthcare International Organization Merger CC: Leadership Team In response to the recent merging of Healthcare International and Care Alliance Health Systems, the management teams of both medical facilities has come together to write a memo on the merger and the effect that it will have within our new organization. Our organization will now be called Care Alliance International Systems. This memo will discuss how the merger will affect our organizational culture (on products and services), how organizational behavior affects overall quality, and how organizational behavior affects competition and human relations. In addition to that, this memo will review how job design, work processes, and performance expectations effect our organization. Lastly, this memo will discuss how the management team will ensure the success of the new Care Alliance International systems. Organizational Culture: Care Alliance Health Systems is dedicated to providing a healthy culture within our facilities so that we may maintain...
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...MII INVESTMENT MEMO TO: FROM: SUBJECT: DATE: McIntire Investment Institute Michael Nugent, COMM 2010 Election Memo – BDX December 1, 2008 Becton, Dickinson and Company Sector: Healthcare | Industry: Medical Equipment and Supplies | NYSE: BDX Thesis: A global leader in medical devices, Becton, Dickinson and Company presents a long-term investment opportunity for the McIntire Investment Institute because of the resilience of the firm’s sales in economic downturns, the solid performance of the company driven by innovation, the boon that healthcare reform in the United States should provide, and strategic acquisitions. I. Financial Summary Share Price 11/28/08 Shares Outstanding Market Cap LT Debt P/E (forward) 52 Week Range Float Short Interest Avg Daily Volume (3m) Beta $63.53 243.57 million $15.47 billion $955.7 million 11.74 $58.14 - $93.24 241.22 million 1.12 million 1,963,240 0.73 II. Business Overview Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) manufactures and sells a host of medical devices, diagnostic equipment, and cell analysis products to healthcare institutions, clinical laboratories, and private consumers. Incorporated in New Jersey in 1906, the company is divided into the BD Medical, BD Diagnostic, and BD Bioscience product segments. BD Medical comprises the majority of the firm’s revenues and includes Medical Surgical Systems, Diabetes Care, Ophthalmic Systems, and Pharmaceutical Systems. As the secondary sales-generating division of the company, BD...
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...in the medical, aircraft, beverage and appliance markets, the organization is always seeking innovative ways to improve and expand its operation. It leadership team understands the importance of focusing such energies on both internal and external excellence. In this descriptive framework, I will outline the internal and external mechanisms including marketing and communication systems, which contribute to its ongoing success. People Employees. One of Riordan’s most valued assets is its workforce. The company boasts highly diverse, committed, and talented personnel who take pride in their representation of Riordan to clients, stockholders, and the public at large. The staff of over 500 works in an open and supportive work environment where team participation and information adequacy and flow are strongly emphasized. Clients. Riordan serves some of the biggest names in the automotive, aircraft beverage, and appliance manufacturing fields. The organization maintains influential and positive relationships with clients through the implementation of rigorous quality controls, innovative solutions, and responsive business attitude and reasonable pricing” (University of Phoenix, 2013). General Public. Riordan leadership takes environmental health and safety regulation and performance very serious as well as its commitment to optimal corporate citizenship. It is the company’s policy to manage the impact its products have on environmental and health conditions...
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...| New Health Medical Systems | Memo To: NHMS Management From: Shakeia Cork CC: Date: 12/12/2011 Re: Staffing Strategy New Health Medical Systems is a large hospital and healthcare system in the southwestern part of the United States. The Board of Directors recently announced a new strategic direction to become a regional center for critically ill patients. As a part of that strategy, the organization has opened a new cardiovascular unit, where patients can receive care for heart attacks, strokes and other types of cardiovascular disease. It was quite easy for the unit to recruit quality physicians but there is a problem finding qualified technicians. The technicians in the immediate region are already employed and aren’t actively seeking jobs with other organizations. The director of staffing for the organization has been asked to create a new staffing strategy to fill the 35 new positions in this department. After considering alternatives, she is recommending the following. 1. Place advertisements in the local newspapers. 2. Contact staffing agencies that specialize in placing technicians into health care facilities. 3. Organize a job fair and invite local professionals to attend. 4. Offer a $1,000 signing bonus to anyone who joins the organization and stays for at least 180 days. After I evaluated the current staffing strategy, I don’t believe the adequate enough to fill the 35 new positions that are being offered. The strategy is still only focusing locally...
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