...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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...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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...New Health Medical System Memo The director of staffing for a New Health Medical Systems has been required to create a new staffing strategy that will fill the 35 new positions opening up in the cardiovascular unit. She has recommended four strategies to help accomplish this goal: advertisement in local newspapers, staffing agencies, job fair for local professionals, and a signing bonus for contracts signed to complete 180 days. Below is a researched evaluation of the staffing strategies, including changes, or additional recommendations to the management. INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM TO: NEW HEALTH MEDICAL SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT FROM: After careful review, the staffing strategy presented does not fully align with the company's new strategic direction. Staffing is the process of acquiring, deploying, and retaining a workforce of sufficient quantity and quality to create positive impacts on the organization’s effectiveness (Henenman & Judge, 2009). In this case, the staffing strategy cannot be solely based on hiring local candidates, but on creating incentives and branching out to candidates in other areas. Based on the needs of the organization, the following four recommendations were given for evaluation: 1. Place advertisements in the local newspapers. 2. Contact staffing agencies that specialize in place 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...
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...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 in the local newspapers. 2. Contact staffing agencies...
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...New Health Medical Systems Shari Gifford HRM/548 Jennifer Familant March 10, 2014 New Health Medical Systems TO: New Health Medical Systems, Board of Directors FROM: Shari Gifford, HR Consultant CC: Jennifer Familant DATE: March 10, 2014 SUBJECT: Staffing Strategy It is my understanding that you, the Board of Directors of New Health Medical Systems, recently announced a new strategic direction to become a regional center for critically ill patients. As a part of that strategy, New Health Medical Systems (NHMS) has opened a new cardiovascular unit where patients can receive care for heart attacks, strokes, and other types of cardiovascular diseases. NHMS was quickly able to recruit a quality physician to head the unit as well as additional professional staff, however finding qualified technicians have become much more difficult than originally anticipated. The problem does not seem to be so much in terms of the position 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. In order to fill the 35 technician positions, the director of staffing has created a new staffing strategy that includes the following: 1. Place advertisement in the local newspapers 2. Contact staffing agencies that specializes in placing technicians into health care facilities 3. Organize a job fair and invite local...
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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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...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 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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...Current Issues in Health Care University of Phoenix Health Law and Ethics HCS 545 Professor: Dr. Michael Grossman February 14, 2015 Current Issues in Health Care Medical errors persist despite modern technology. Although, this is not a new issue it remains in the forefront of the health care community. Health care is a decade or more behind many other high-risk industries in its attention to ensuring basic safety (Institute of Medicine, 1999). Medical errors have been in the spotlight since the 1990's when government studied the sudden increase in the number of hospital deaths. According to Lester and Tritter (2001) "Medical error is an actual or potentially serious lapse in the standard of care provided to a patient or harm caused to a patient through the performance of a health service or health care professional". A study in the Journal of Health Care Finance from Wolters Kluwer finds medical errors in the U.S. may cost up to $1 trillion per year (Goedert, 2012). Medical errors can occur in many ways including but not limited to wrong site surgery, surgical errors, medication errors, adverse drug reactions, medical equipment failure, diagnostic error and communication errors. The Journal of Patient Safety estimates that the numbers of deaths in 2014 that are directly related to medical errors top 210,00 and may reach 440,00 (Allen, 2013). The statistics indicate that to ensure patient safety the reduction of medical errors must become a priority of...
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...Table of Contents Introduction Page 3 Risk Scenario Related to Patient Care and Safety Page 5 Risk Scenario Related to the Physical Plant Page 9 Risk Scenario Related to Staffing Page 13 Best Practices in 4 Hospitals Page 15 Tenet Healthcare Page 16 Cleveland Clinic Stroke Improvement Plan Page 17 Conclusion Page 18 References Page 19 Introduction The issue of risk scenario carries immense importance for most of the hospitals that are part of the healthcare setting. However, there is not only one scenario that can affect the hospitals but there are several scenarios that can create an impact on the functions of the hospital. There are three scenarios that would be highlighted in the current topic. These three scenarios have a tendency to put a hospital at risk for financial stability. The first scenario that can produce a negative impact on the hospital risk is related to patient care and safety. The second scenario is related to the physical plant. The third and last scenario is related to staffing. The role of HIM practitioner in this regard would be very important. They would serve as a clinical quality assessment resource and as a team member to perform their tasks related to healthcare work. Therefore, all the issues related to three scenarios will be discussed in detail. The impetus for quality improvement has been driven in recent years by three main factors: 1. The amount of money that the US spends on healthcare per capita and as...
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...Safe Staffing Examine Nurse-to-Patient Ratios Primary health care organizations such as New York Presbyterian (NYP) are impacted by low nurse-to-patient ratios. The recent implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) has required organizations such as NYP to explore many approaches to improve quality and patient outcomes that contain costs. “Numerous studies reveal an association between higher levels of experienced RN staffing and lower rates of adverse patient outcomes” (www.nursingworld.org, 2015, para. 1). For this reason, nurse-to-patient ratios is an issue that needs to be addressed at NYP in order to improve quality healthcare within their organization. The acuity of the unit in which patient care is being provided, should determine the acceptable nurse-to-patient ratio. According to the American Nurses Association (ANA), factors that influence the nurse staffing needs include: patient complexity, acuity, or stability; number of admissions, discharges, and transfers; professional nursing and other staff skill level and expertise; physical space and layout of the nursing unit; availability of or proximity to technological support or other resources ("Optimal Nurse Staffing," 2015). Currently, New York is one of only fourteen states that addresses the nurse staffing issue in hospitals. New York State requires organizations such as NYP to disclose their nurse-to-patient staffing ratios to the public; however the state does not require a minimum...
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...Nurse Burnout and Its Impact on Patient Safety Georgetown University Foundations of Health Systems and Policy NURO-624 September 12, 2013 Nurse Burnout and Its Impact on Patient Safety Patient safety encompasses the application of best practices that are geared towards achieving positive outcomes and promoting safety, and can serve as an indicator of quality in healthcare institutions; sustainable nursing workloads improve the quality of health care by reducing unsafe conditions, as well as reducing mortality and morbidity. Several literature reviews have clearly identified the consequences for patients when nurses are overtaxed or over utilized to bridge the gap of nursing shortages. According to Mckee et al, each patient added to nurses’ workloads (beyond four patients) is associated with a seven percent increase in mortality following common surgical procedures (McKee, M. 1999). Recent health reform legislation has further stimulated increased awareness and focuses on patient centered care, and emphasizes on the importance of the patients’ experience. Moreover, patients’ expectations of their caregivers to be positively engaged in their work and performing efficiently and effectively in a supportive environment are prudent. However, several challenges are being encountered by nurses, as they strive to meet the mandates of the aforementioned health care reform. Challenges resulting from unfavorable working conditions that are not conducive to the provision of patient...
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...efficient use of staff. For health care managers who are responsible for a variable expense cost center or department, maintaining appropriate levels of productivity is one of the greatest and ongoing challenges of the management process and requires constant research and advice regarding relevant productivity standards. Comparing one’s departmental operations with other successful operations of another organization is a useful source of benchmarking data and many health care managers depend on associates or outside consultants to provide data to assist in implementing new and effective strategies to improve staff productivity. There are three sources of productivity standards. The first source is internally developed historical standards where standards are based on past performances but do not provide information about relative efficiency. The second source is engineered standards where internal staff or outside consultants conduct a study of the work environment and define normal standards of productivity. The third source is a comparative group standard where associations or private firms that represent the health care firm provide comparative group standards from collected survey data. Most health care managers today rely on outside consultant firms such as the American Hospital Association (AHA), the Healthcare Financial Management Association (hfma), the American Productivity and Quality Center (APQC), or the Applied Management Systems...
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...(RNs) constitute an integral part of the patient care and recovery process. To many patients, nurses are the health care professionals they see most often. Additionally, patients seeking care in outpatient clinics may not be aware of the number of hours nurses work. However, short stay and long stay patients see the same nurses over many shifts. What they may not realize is how many hours RNs work in a given 24-hour period to provide continuous patient care. According to Bae (2012a), a 2004 research study found that “43% of U.S. RNs worked more than 40 hours per week and about 9% worked more than 60 hours per week” (p. 205). In most instances RNs work overtime to alleviate staff shortages in their units. According to Bae (2012b), staff shortage in hospitals is not a new phenomenon and many researchers in health care system contend that such chronic shortage of nurses has a direct and negative impact on patient care (Bae, 2010; Bae, 2012b, Bae, Brewer, & Faan, 2012). For example, in several of her research articles, Bae (2010, 2012a, & 2012b) cited several research articles where researchers have found that the long hours worked by RNs are at the root of many adverse patient outcomes. Anecdotal evidence should suggest that anyone working long hours over an extended period of time will experience fatigue and decreased working performance. However, the health care system, as a whole, has not adopted the recommended standards from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of “no more than...
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...Alignment of HRM and Business Strategies John Marsh Dr. Ronald Harrison DeVry University: HRM 530 Winter Quarter 2015 Propose how you would ensure the HR strategy is in alignment with the business strategy. First and foremost a company is run by the vision and mission of its founders. Typically, the main focus of many companies is to provide a good or service and gain a profit. I would ensure that even though HR is important, the business strategy comes first. Therefore, I would press the fact that HR needs to know and adhere to the business strategy of the company when making all of its decisions. Let the business strategy be the outline for success. HR should be trained on the business strategies of the company and keep them in mind while conducting all of its decisions. The company that I chose to review is Ford Motor Company. In review of the Ford website, it appears that the alignment of business and HR is on the forefront of their thinking as well. The website states that the HR department “Strategically partners with operations to diagnose the needs of salaried employees and deliver solutions that align with business goals. We also facilitate implementation of Ford’s people cycle plan.” (Human Resources, 2015) This statement is a direct response to ensuring that goals and strategies are on par. Describe the HR job positions and the responsibilities listed for that HR department. The Ford Motor Company HR department has many different responsibilities...
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