...This SWOT analysis evaluates Robertwood Johnson University Hospital’s strength, weakness, opportunities, and threats internally and externally to determine whether strategic objectives in its environment can be met. Strength • Robertwood Johnson University Hospital is nationally recognized among the most wired hospital for it excellence in information technology (Newswise, Inc., July 11, 2012). • Robertwood Johnson University Hospital uses the most advanced, innovated technology to care for its patients. • Robertwood Johnson University Hospital, compared to most hospital's, had an increase of revenue due to the growth of inpatient volume in FY2013 which enhanced their financial performance (Moody’s Investor Service, August 7,...
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...| University Hospital | Memo To: Pat Rowe, Vice President From: Cynthia Bonavia CC: Jon M. Werner Date: 13-Oct-14 Re: Technology Training Recommendations It has come to my attention that our new software training has not been completed by all employees. This is extremely important that all employees complete the training to make the use of this software an easy transition as easy as possible and as your training consultant these are my recommendations. Prior to the training a needs assessment will be sent out to all employees including what technology difficulties the staff are having with the software and what training methods are best so we can better understand each employees business needs. We will also offer a couple of different choices to the training to fit everyone’s schedules. The reason the training may have failed is that employees didn’t take it seriously. If you seriously want everyone using this software then it must be mandatory that they all train for this transition. This software has been installed and should be used daily. Unfortunately, I believe that it needs to be a forced training otherwise they will not want to learn a new system, because that takes time and energy. We will do an assessment of their knowledge, skills and abilities so they can all be properly trained. Secondly, I don’t believe that coffee and doughnuts are enough of an inspiration to want to do a training. They are nice to have for the training and a nice gesture, but...
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...3. Were staff members motivated for the training? Did they have high self-efficacy before and after the training? Clearly staff members were not motivated for the training once they do not think it’s important to learn how to use the new system on their jobs. And because of that, they did not have a high self-efficacy either before or after the training. There are few points that they have to restructure so they can guarantee better results for the training, and for the hospital itself. Having a motivational atmosphere creates multiple benefits for both employee and employer. In addition to the employee feeling more engaged and thus more motivated, that employee also gains new skills. At the same time, the employer benefits not just from a more motivated employee but also from one who is now better equipped to perform their duties. Before the training begins: First of all, managers should identify employee strengths. Training can be a terrific opportunity for an employee whose manager has identified specific skills that can be enhanced. For example, an employee who is particularly good at written communication or with numbers might be given the opportunity to develop those skills further in training. The corollary to this is that employees should be offered training that is interesting and relevant to their work. Managers have to set some learning points. Those points have to be the ones managers thinks are the most essential for employees know. Doing that, when the training...
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...CMGT 554 Week 3-It Infrastructure- Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Project University of Phoenix Get Tutorial by Clicking on the link below or Copy Paste Link in Your Browser https://hwguiders.com/downloads/cmgt-554-week-3-infrastructure-patton-fuller-community-hospital-networking-project-university-phoenix/ For More Courses and Exams use this form ( http://hwguiders.com/contact-us/ ) Feel Free to Search your Class through Our Product Categories or From Our Search Bar (http://hwguiders.com/ ) CMGT 554 Week 3-It Infrastructure- Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Project University of Phoenix Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Project (Week 3) University of Phoenix CMGT 554/IT INFRASTRUCTURE Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Project Today most new building construction is built with new technology and is not as much concerned with the type of budgets that a hospital muse consider in order to redesign a whole new network structure for the purpose of being more optimal and maintaining standards that keep up with advances in new technology. In most cases, a hospital’s network can transition over time with new technology and evolve into meeting the demands it requires to perform effectively. However, upgrading a hospital’s entire network can often be very expensive to implement and sustain. There may be a case where components or parts are no longer being produced to meet current and future demands. In the last several...
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...Steps 1-3 – The Problem Identification Stage Step 1 – Review the case and identify the relevant facts Problem situations or cases often include extraneous information or irrelevant ‘stuff’. Therefore, when you are trying to find a solution to a situation or to answer a case question, the first step is to identify the key facts so that you can figure out what is going on before deciding how to answer or solve the problem. In advanced courses, this usually involves extensive research but in an introductory or foundation level course, you will typically only use the information in the case. However, to do well in any case study assignment, it is important to read the case carefully and also to make sure you fully understand what the assignment and/or case questions are asking for. As you review the case, this will help you to identify what you need to pay attention to and what to ignore. That’s what relevance means – eliminating ‘stuff’ and identifying the important facts in a situation. Let us assume that you have just read a case entitled XYZ company and are trying to answer the following question: What are the current challenges facing XYZ company? You must identify and list the key facts which, for the purposes of our example, are those listed below: * The government has recently deregulated the industry to stimulate competition. * Telecommunications advances have led to increasing internet use. * More and more users are comparison shopping on the...
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...This case study ([38] Yin, 2003) concerns the introduction and application of organization-wide process management between 1997 and 2001 at Huddinge University Hospital, an 800-bed tertiary care centre with salaried staff in the Stockholm County Council healthcare system, Sweden (which subsequently merged to form the Karolinska University Hospital). The QI program involved identifying hospital processes and assembling multi-professional and management teams to conduct QI projects - aimed, typically, at reducing waiting times for patients or otherwise streamlining clinical operations - to enhance organizational performance ( Thor 2010) Statement of problem In the health care field in the United States there are going to be major health care reform issues that come in the coming years. The government will be putting certain mandates down and health care will have to try to hold it together at all costs. During the uncertain times in health care there will need to be some improvement programs put in place. In a study in Swedish hospital they went thru change and had a quality improvement program enduring uncertainty regarding the effectiveness of such programs and how evaluate it. They were able to use design, methodology and approach.( Thor 2010) Literatuare Review Goal achievement was assessed based on baseline levels, the goal set at the start of each QI project and the QI indicator level at project conclusion. Goal achievement was (arbitrarily) categorized into more or...
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...Investigating my First Variable Variance Report: Beginning the Road to Precision in Variable Planning Oh, bemusing variance report! However will I explain to Bob Schuler, Hahnemann Hospitals’ vice president, the ineffectiveness of my plan, how my supplies came in under budget and salaries were overextended during my first thirty days in the department?! I had hoped the variance percentages would be consistent with the unexpected revenue created by the increased patient volumes we experienced last month - but that could only explain the salary end of things because supplies and procedures didn’t increase. Furthermore, since patient volumes increased, it would make sense that more supplies would be used and more staff would be on-site, prepared for higher volumes - just as the busy times of the hospital were predicted in prior flexible budgets and analyses. (But supplies were reported as lower than expected which doesn’t match up) If I know Mr. Schuler, he is going to be very angry about quality control if I cannot figure out why my supplies were less than estimated and even more livid if we were detrimentally overstaffed; my job may even be in jeopardy! Calm down! Breathe. As I type, I am beginning to believe these variances are not my fault at all. But, I had never imagined switching from the fixed to variable expense department would include such a string of headaches. I must rise to this challenge and pull out every stop in my detection-correction plan while investigating...
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...effective management are indicators of a quality hospital. The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is amongst the top 100 hospitals in the world. At this medical facility, the staff puts its patients first. Penn Medicine is dedicated to high-quality patient care and service, advancing medical science through research, and educating the next generation of leaders in medicine. It includes three hospitals in Philadelphia and outpatient centers throughout the region (The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, 2012). A leader in medicine for more than 240 years, Penn opened its School of Medicine, the nation's first, in 1765. The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania was established in 1874 as the nation's first teaching hospital. Since its founding days, Penn has expanded medical frontiers by creating some of the nation's earliest programs in areas ranging from dermatology, neurosurgery, ophthalmology and radiology, to the Philadelphia region's only program to transplantation of five major organs (The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, 2012). Over the past 30 years, Penn physicians and scientists have participated in many important discoveries, including: the first general vaccine against pneumonia. The introduction of total intravenous feeding. The development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and other imaging technologies. The discovery of the Philadelphia chromosome (The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, 2012), which revolutionized cancer...
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...meet the requirements of the role. In these working environments, medical error can easily occur. For this reason, it is critical that upper management fully understands all department roles and functionality and implement polices and protocols to limit risk while keep patients and staff safe. Health care news situation that affects hospitals In February 2015, ten California hospitals were penalized a total of $700,000 after a state health inspector found deficiencies in care that resulted from Medical errors. In one case, a Kaiser Permanente Hospital was fined $50,000 due to a patient receiving 19 doses of three types of narcotic medications within a few hours, then died nine days later. The investigation concluded that the device that administered the medication was too accessible to the patient’s family, which is against the hospital policy (Abra, S., 2015). Another incident occurred at Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC). Loma Linda was penalized $50,000 after a resident physician inserted a feeding tube into the patient’s lung instead of the stomach. While it is acknowledge that LLUMC is a teaching hospital, in a statement the...
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...University of Maryland Medical Center The University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) is one of the biggest medical institutions in Baltimore, Maryland. Its biggest competition is John Hopkins Medical Center, which is famous for the work of Heart Surgeon Ben Carson. Much of UMMC’s external organizational structure revolves around competitive factors. UMMC originated in 1823 and over the years has changed its name from the Baltimore Infirmary formed by the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and in 1998 to what is now known as University of Maryland Medical Center (University Of Maryland Medical Center, 2012). UMMC provides patient care, education, and research. UMMC offers patient care for emergency visits, pediatric, geriatric care, obstetrics, shock trauma, and all other health and medical related issues. University of Maryland Medical Center also houses the University of Maryland School of Medicine. This school offers career in different medical fields and all of the teachers at the school are the practicing residents in the hospital. Some 656 beds are maintained by the Center, which includes the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center; the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center; and the University of Maryland Hospital for Children. The hospital and the school’s organizational design are run as a corporation and answers to a Board of Directors, Shareholders, and Stakeholders (University Of Maryland Medical Center, 2012). With UMMC being in constant...
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...program assessments are different from business program assessments. According to "Basic Economy" (207-2012), in typical business, “the demand for a product is the amount that buyers are willing and able to purchase” (Quantity demanded and Supplied). In healthcare, everyone at some point will require medical care. Some will need more than others. Some will need inexpensive versus expensive treatment modalities. But other issues will play into cost. Insurance premiums, co-pays, government restrictions on healthcare, restrictions on what insurance will pay for all factor into the costs of the treatment received. Physicians typically treat patients for what their needs are, not what the cost is or how the patient is going to pay it (Getzen/University of Phoenix, 2007). They want their organization to provide the most up-to-date in medicines and equipment. They do not want to risk...
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...includes hospitals, clinics, specialized care centers, and outpatient care centers. Health care facilities range from relatively simple and small clinics to complex larger and costly research hospitals. A healthcare facility should communicate messages to patients, volunteers, visitors, and staff as an establishment of kind, comfort and welcoming compassion. Health care facilities commitment to patient’s and families’ is their well-being and safety, a health care facility should also influence employee behaviors and attitudes. Health care facilities evoke change and the advancement of a better delivery of healthcare. Very often healthcare facilities must be renovated to improve healthcare delivery. This paper will discuss Emory University Hospital’s in Atlanta, GA emergency room and surgical center new for renovations Regulatory requirement, color selection, equipment and electronic needed budget planning and cost estimate, and the role of stakeholders in facility planning and development Facility Planning Regulatory requirements and their effect on the design and equipment * * * Hospitals are the most complex of building types. Each hospital consist of of a wide series of services and functional units such as clinical lab, imaging, emergency rooms, diagnostic and treatment functions, surgical hospitality functions, and the basic inpatient care. These ranges of functions are mirror with specific regulations, codes, and supervision that oversee hospital operations...
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...Middlefield Hospital has been a great healthcare facility to the Middlefield area. Middlefield Hospital consists of a 450-bed tertiary facility in a major urban area in the Northeast. The hospital is an integrated health system that provides the full array of inpatient and outpatient services. The hospital enjoys a reputation of quality care in the area. In recent years, there are areas of concern that need to be addressed. As I have been assigned the position as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Middlefield Hospital, I will provide strategies and recommendations needed for implementation to turnaround the hospital into a more positive experience not only for the patients but for the employees as well. My approach will implement a triad of care – access, cost, and quality. Middlefield Hospital has been a key staple within our market area of Middlefield. The hospital was able to build another facility on the other side of town. The new hospital offers much better facilities and the technology is state of the art. While visiting the new hospital, I noticed that the staff appeared much more invested in the quality of patient care and the patients also seem happier. As with new facilities, there comes lots of excitement. The quality of our old facility needs to be upgraded and needs some new type of organization. There needs to be a balance of power so that the new hospital is able to start performing better. This lies within the hospital medical staff, hospital administration...
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...The Medical Center at Bowling Green, mcbg.org, is a not-for-profit hospital that is under the operation of Commonwealth Health Corporation (CHC). It is one of six sister hospitals under the management of CHC, serving the southern KY areas. It is the largest hospital of that corporation. TriStar Greenview Regional Hospital, tristargreenviewregional.com, is a for-profit hospital that’s a part of the TriStar Health organization, which serves southcentral Kentucky and middle Tennessee areas. Both facilities are located in Bowling Green, KY. Between my two examples of for-profit and not-for-profit, both organizations had mission statements that stated they want to serve their communities through high quality care, and both claim to appreciate the staff members "with respect". TriStar goes on to say that because they are a part of a large network of hospitals, patients have more access to services whatever the need may be. Although Greenview does not provide a vision statement, they do go into more detail about what they value. I liked how they said "We recognize and affirm the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual". This is a very nice and different way to say that they want to give individualized care to each person who walks through their doors, which I find very appealing. I also liked that they made their all their value statements about people, patients and employees. This makes them seem personable. I do like the vision statement provided by Medical Center because it...
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...service line in the market area defined in the case study. Trinity Community Hospital is in need of a new orthopedic center. The need for an orthopedic unit is expect to increase to 46%, and spine procedures are expected to increase 30%. Outpatient spine and joint procedures are expected to go up by 350%. The five year projection plan for orthopedic unit is as follows: each orthopedic surgical gross charges is projected to be $25,000, physical therapy has a gross charge of $275 per unit. Collections are projected to be around 35%, and the ratio of cost to charges is 31% (Western Governors University, n.d.). The current research indicates the current area is in need of an orthopedic center. The other two hospitals that are close to Trinity represent the biggest competition and have a good orthopedic program. The other hospitals are private, and this increases the demand for Trinity developing a good orthopedic program. Trinity is centrally located within the community, and the population is expected to grow four percent a year, the need for a good orthopedic unit at Trinity will continue to grow. Trinity has performed a needs assessment, and determined Trinity could provide orthopedic services many people within the community. The current resources that Trinity has are not enough to keep up with the rising demand, and would benefit Trinity to develop an orthopedic unit now (Western Governors University, n.d.). 2. Analyze how current international healthcare trends could be...
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