...Change and Culture Case Study I Mergers occur almost every day in the business world for one reason or another. In health care two or more facilities may merge because of lack of staff, budget cuts, or poor administration that causes pending closures of one or more facilities. When mergers of two healthcare facilities occur, top line management and administration are normally always the first to get the axe from the healthcare facility that needed the bailout. This leaves middle management with the task of effectively aligning the staff of the healthcare facilities without causing conflict that would undermine the good nature of the newly formed health care facility. The scenario calls for acting as a middle manager in a healthcare facility that has just merged with a previous competitor. Each facility will come with their own set of flaws and flourishes. This paper will address how middle management can form a bond with employees of both facilities. It will also give best practices on how to jointly implement inpatient and outpatient services and correct flaws and continue to flourish as one health care facility that provides the best service to their patients. The usual reason for two health care facilities merging is because one facility is not doing well and is in danger of being shut down. The not doing so well can be attributed to budget, quality of service, employee retention, training, space, or a takeover in board members. There are other reasons for mergers...
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...Proposal Introduction In today's health care facilities the materials and operations managers are a crucial part in the successful health care facility. One major roles for both managers to understand his or her function of the whole entity of his or her hospital. Operation managers and material managers must work side-by-side to ensure that his or her medical facility runs efficiently and profitable. Also needs to understand the effects of collaborative planning process and why said process is crucial to his or her medical facility. Material managers will also have to manage the supply chain in any type of situation and prove successful. Materials and Operations Manager Duties The material managers play an important part within the health care facility. The material managers will handle over half of the health care facility bottom line. The material managers are responsible for areas throughout the hospital. The important role that a materials manager must be able to handle is control and direct the flow of the supplies from the distributors; receiving; waste; inventory, and when supplies come to medical facility. The operation managers also has an important part within the health care facility. With the operation manager he or she needs to make sure that the goals and the day-to-day operations are running smoothly. The major duty that the operation manager has to maintain daily is staffing; quality; quantity; layout of facility; management, and communication. ...
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...Facility Planning Part 1 HCS/446 Elizabeth Theodorides February 09 2015 Laura Vilardi Description The facility I have chosen is an outpatient facility in Miami, Florida at Jackson Health system. The renovations will cost the public around 101 million dollars (The Miami Herald). The renovation’s will be for the Outpatient services and also for the main hospital as well, which is now part of the new outpatient facility that wil be added to this hospital. The organization is also looking to refurbish existing space, as well as build new wing to the hospital the space is essential. Community Jackson Health System will include patient room renovations, a new rehabilitation hospital and a new pediatric outpatient center, plus equipment and software the finance committee chair, expressed concern about the transparency of the expenditures, noting that no itemized list of projects was included with the resolution. Instead the resolution described four “groups” of projects: hospital facility renovations and upgrades, infrastructure projects, medical and technology equipment and software, and new facilities. (The Miami Herald). These renovations will also include an outpatient facility for pediatrics as well. It will also cater to children as well. The type of community Jackson health and The Public health trust has all types of people in the community who come to this hospital to get treatment, Jackson is said to be one of the best trauma centers in United States, and have...
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...the improvement of patient care. When using evidence based practices you always want to utilize the patients experiences while in the health care facility because they are the consumer and need to be satisfied with the care given (UNC, 2015). When utilizing evidence based practices in a clinical setting can be hard and cause rifts in the employee satisfaction but utilizing evidence based practices can improve the results for patient outcomes, ensure the care given to patients are standard across the health care industry and lower costs of the care being provided to the patients. Utilizing evidence based evidence to improve patient care and decide what new practices can be utilized within the health care facility can make it possible for your facility to participate in a very competitive market in health care services (Spruce, 2015). Health care is going from ensuring...
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...Facility Planning – Facility Selection: Part 1 & 2 In health care there are many different facility types; one in particular is an outpatient clinic. Outpatient clinics are facilities which provide medical care and treatments that do not require an overnight stay in a medical facility or hospital. An outpatient care can be managed in a medical office or even in a hospital, but mostly services are provided in a medical office or in an outpatient surgery center (About Careers, 2014). One facility in particular is the Clarksville Community Based Outpatient Clinic located in Clarksville, Tennessee. The Clarksville outpatient clinic first opened up in the year 2000 and started providing services for all veterans in the Kentucky and also Tennessee areas. This is a most active clinic, with close proximity to the Fort Campbell base, for the Operation Iraqi freedom/ Operation Enduring freedom returnees (Department of V.A., 2014). The Clarksville Community Based Outpatient Clinic provides primary care as well as mental health services to all veterans of the area. Also provided in the facility are laboratories for blood drawings and prescription services are provided as well. This particular outpatient clinic has recently undergone a new renovation this year to add on more patient rooms to recruit new patients as well as more employees to serve all of the individuals of the clinic (Department of V.A., 2014). The Clarksville veteran’s population had been served by the Department of Veterans...
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...merging facilities to exist as one. The new organization mission and vision must be defined and communicated. There will also be a need to redesign and redirect nuisances, task, and job performance measures. The merger between Health care Facility A and Health Care Facility B was initiated six months ago. The merger created the Open Health Care Facility. This facility was forced to eliminate jobs because of duplicate positions and job responsibilities. Each health care facility contributed their own area experts in all fields and to align the staff with the budget allocations, staffing was reduced tremendously. There have been changes in the organizational structure, changes and enhancements in processes and production, and changes in the quantity of staff members. The newly structured administration sees a need for a redesign of patient care delivery because of all the changes and enhancements implemented. A suggestion was made to use the universal worker concept. Consider the words universal worker in a health care facility. This could mean that one person is capable of doing all task in every position and department. Can you say “burn out”? Burn out of employees could be one reason why the universal worker model often failed in other organizations. This paper will address an effective method of job redesign, why universal workers will not be effective, and what other work processes and performances must be considered when electing to redesign patient care delivery...
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... Regulations, Requirements, and Standards A health facility should be safe for staff and patients in the facility. When planning the setup of the health facility the management should provide key safety measure that will make the facility safe to both the staff and the patients thus enabling a peaceful environment (Guenther & Vittori, 2008). The setup should include exit route in case of fire, fire extinguishers, adequate spacing of pathways to enable people to escape from the venue without causing a stampede. With high level safety measures the facility will be secure and safe for effective performance of tasks by medical staff. It will also be conducive for the patients and clients of the institution who come on daily basis for checkup. A safe environment for a health care facility is favorable as it enhances the safety standards of the institution. The facility should be on secure location for the sake of both the client and all staff working in it, as the institution is highly labor based the security of all people to use the facility should be put on consideration (Guenther & Vittori, 2008). In January of last year, the emergency room of Doctors’ Hospital of Michigan (DHM) closed and was later converted it into a 24-hour Urgent Care. This paper will discuss regulations, requirements, and standards that will affect facility design and renovation of DHM’s urgent care department. A health care should incorporate operational functions and sustainability...
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...Facility Planning Part 1 HCS/446 June 24, 2013 Royann Schmidgall Facility Planning Part 1 There are numerous stages involved when stakeholders think about remodeling or building a new facility. There are three specific stages when deciding to remodel or build. Stage one is the planning and defining the hospital project. This includes a strategic plan, needs assessment, and concept design. Stage two is the design development, schematic design, construction documentation, and building permits. Stage three involves the financial aspect of planning. During this phase bidding, licensing, construction, and evaluation are taking place (California Healthcare Foundation, n.d.). According to Tradition Medical Center (2013), “Martin Health System is a not-for-profit, community-based health care organization that has served the region for more than 70 years” (para. 6). This paper will outline the need for a new building, the population it is serving, a description of the new building, and a URL link for the floor plan for review. Community and Facility Needs Martin Health System has served the local community for more than 70 years. According to Martin Health System (2013) their “mission is to provide exceptional health care, hope, and compassion to every patient, every time” (para. 6). It offers variety of care to include acute and primary care, preventative services, cardiac care, cancer care, and rehabilitation services. Currently Martin Health System has two hospitals...
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...they happen. Every facility should have a department that focuses on risk management that focuses on reducing injuries, lawsuits, and to make sure safety is number one in a facility. The facility’s risk managements department should be successful in early detection of any risks as well as maintaining safety. The reason early detection is important is that it’s less costly, which means there is less changes to be made when it comes to adjusting to any type of disruption. To properly address a risk there are a few steps that need to be taken which are; The risks need to be identified, the risk needs to be analyzed, the risk need to be handled, and lastly a plan needs to be made if need be for the risk not to occur in the future. A facilities Risk Management department is dedicated to the safety of the employee’s as well as their patients. By the facility assigning personnel who trained to oversee the hospital allows for information to be up dated and polices to be trained on, which keeps staff up to date and identify any new risks. Risk Management Every organization needs to have a risk management policy and procedure in place according to Dartmouth- Hitchcock Medical Center (Dartmouth-Hitchcock-Medical Center, 2009). It is also important to have a risk management policy and procedure plan in place when it comes to the health care field in general because in the health care field you are taking care of people and they as patients are trusting health care professionals with...
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...Terms Comparison Paper Raven Childers HCS/552 February 27, 2012 James Brown Terms Comparison Paper Economics is basically the management of an administration. The focus of economics is to determine the primary behavior of supply and demand. In health care the demand is made through technology, cures, and needs. Although the supplies are available to the consumers not all consumers receive the same amount or type of supplies. That depends upon the economic status and if he or she can afford the supply or service. In health care demands develop because of economic growth, knowledge, social factors, and inexpensive public health care. With insurance and government programs health care becomes available to people no matter what socioeconomic differences. Still economic factors do persist with socioeconomic differences even with government programs. According to Getzen (20074) economics is the trade, or “making a buck” in the marketplace where buyers and sellers exchange dollars for goods and services. Economics is the study of the forces between supply and demand and the impact they have on allocation of scarce resources. Demand is the wants or needs of a product by a buyer and what he or she is buying at a specific price. Supply is the amount of a product for sale for a specific price. Then variability...
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...Health Care Utilization Paper Wendy Witt HCS/235 8/13/2012 Delores Usea Healthcare Utilization Paper For many individuals acquiring and using a regular source of medical care is often influenced by many factors. Perceived and evaluated need, and potential access are connected with both predisposing (immutable) and enabling (mutable) factors. Predisposing factors determining the use of health services include demographics, age, gender, race, ethnicity, education, occupation, location, health and cultural beliefs. Immutable factors cannot be changes. Immutable factors are connected with mutable beliefs regarding health values, beliefs, and knowledge. Mutable factors are enabling factors that can be changed. Enabling factors consist of personal and community factors. For example, a personal factor would be an individual s income changed, or the individual gained health insurance or lost health insurance. Community factors include health services resources, health facilities, and transportation. Location has an effect on John’s ability to utilize health care because John recently has moved to a rural community and the nearest physician is 40 minutes away. Providing a healthcare facility within John’s community he would be able to utilize healthcare on a regular basis will help John to live a healthier longer life. Factors that may affect John’s utilization of health care include transportation. Transportation has a large impact on the ability for individuals who are...
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...Facility Planning - Part 2 HCS/455 January 12, 2014 Michael Leger Facility Planning - Part 2 The community of Hillsboro Oregon will be getting a new family health care facility. The city of Hillsboro has grown in numbers over the past few years and it is expected to continue to grow. This new facility will be a great asset to the community. It is thought it would be more beneficial to build a new family clinic verses remodeling an already existing building. It was found to be more cost effective starting from scratch when compared to the expense of a remodel. There are many details that go into the facility planning process, this paper will go into why this community is in need of a new family health care facility, and the type of population the facility will be serving. Community Need The community of Hillsboro Oregon is continuing to grow at a fast rate. This is believed to be the case because of the employment opportunities offered by the major industries that have taken residence in the area (Kearns Moore, 2014). A recent study done at Portland State University believes Hillsboro could rival Gresham for the title of the fourth largest city in Oregon by the late 2020s (Kearns Moore, 2014). This increased growth is why there is a need to add a new family health care clinic in order to provide the community with quality health care in a timely manner. Adding a new family health care clinic in the city of Hillsboro Oregon will also benefit those who live in...
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...Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) Analysis CPT Christopher F. Drum, CPT Scott Stokoe, LTJG Ann-Marie Noad U.S. Army-Baylor University Graduate Program In Health Care Administration A paper submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for HCA 5325 Strategic Management of Health Care Organizations 12 December 2003 Executive Summary Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) is a well-established, international health care industry leader that provides patient services on two continents. Ranked number one in both sales and profit rankings, HCA continues to provide quality health care as it expands into new markets. HCA provides its primary services through a variety of venues. In addition to its patient care mission, HCA has joined with the Federal government to provide education and scholarship programs. A strategic assessment of HCA was conducted to examine its current business strategies. A strengths, weakness, threats, and opportunities (SWOT) analysis indicated that HCA’s internal strengths outweighed its weaknesses and the external threats outweighed the opportunities. HCA’s current mission and values statements are sufficient to support its success, but improvements can be made in each. Primary strategic emphasis is through an application of expansion and maintenance of scope adaptive strategies. Secondary efforts include a limited application of market entry and competitive strategies. Applying a threat, opportunity, weakness, and strength (TOWS)...
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...extended, usually a minimum two years, sometimes longer (Cleverley & Cameron, 2007). Client Health and Rehabilitation Center a skilled nursing facility in Anywhere, NY has determined that a capital expenditure of an installation of electronic medical records (EMR) will help their facility compete with surrounding facilities. The cost will be roughly $50,000, and will consist of the hardware, labor, software, service, and education for facility staff. This paper will confer that attainment of electronic medical record hardware and software will facilitate organizational and management with facility goals based on the necessity of the facility to compete with other facilities in the area that are technically advanced. In the long run the facility will reap the rewards of the installation of this new technology. Management Goals Productivity The chief goals of the administration group at Client Health and Rehabilitation Center is that of productivity. With the organization becoming further advanced technologically owing to the use of the EMR system, responsibilities that consist of procuring doctors orders for updating, filing, and charting additional redundancies, and use many paper charts will not be necessary, thereby doing away this outdated responsibility. Acquiring information for chart audits to determine code status, new doctor orders, and accurateness of assessments will be completed with simplicity. The management...
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...Health Care Communication Methods HCS / 320 To successfully manage a local nursing home, one requires ample amounts of time investment and patience towards the residing members and employees. The staff must be given extensive training to understand state law, HIPAA regulations, along with the organization’s protocol and procedures in order to deliver the best quality of medical care. Still, there are many unavoidable changes and revolutions that will take place within health care organizations which will push for unpredicted deliberation and strategic implementations of a “plan B”. In such a situation, health care management must make selections based on effectiveness, while still keeping in consideration the various factors which make up the health care organization. With the preceding noted, we will explore a scenario which calls for unforeseen critical thinking and application. (Cheesebro, T., O’Connor, L., & Rios, F. (2010).) Recently, a development regarding a nursing facility is required to relocate a number of their patients to safe and clean housing due to being bought over by a national corporation. With the new purchaser in office, new policies have taken effect leaving a percentage of the residents displaced and with no nearby relatives to assist them. As a responsible head administrator, one must adhere to state regulations while still pursuing quality alternative measures for the individuals in need. In addition to the lack of housing resources, these patients...
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