Case Study : Blake Memorial Hospital

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For 13 years, from 1968 to 1981General Hospital grew as a nonprofit hospital in their community by 100 beds, from 175 to 275 beds, and still maintained 90% occupancy. It was able to

In mid-April 2000, Sherri Worth was faced with some very unsettling news about Pate Memorial Clinic’s future with a competitor potentially moving into the area. Worth was the assistant administrator at Pate Memorial Hospital (PMH) and was also responsible for the Pate Health Clinic (PHC). A study by the competitor was being done to see whether sufficient demand existed to establish a clinic 5 blocks north of PHC. The two biggest concerns in regards to the new competition were:

The North Texas State Hospital (NTSH) is part of the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) administration. NTSH is a mental healthcare facility that has two campuses: one department is located in Wichita Falls, TX and the other in Vernon, TX. Including both campuses DSHS is the largest mental hospital in the state of Texas, which provides psychiatric services for the mentally ill. NTSH is the only facility in the entire state of Texas that provides forensic psychiatric care. Forensic psychiatric care is a specialized service for prisoners who have mental disorders. NTSH offers a 284-bed maximum security program for adults and a 78-bed adolescent Forensic Program (DSHS Center, 2017). NTSH aims to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of individuals by providing the right stewardship, reducing health care problems, improving public health awareness, and preventing diseases. In order to improve health and safety, NTSH is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The Joint Commission is an independent, not for profit association that set standards to evaluate

Jones Regional Medical Center is a huge academic health center with 900 beds and are known for its research and teaching hospitals. Additionally, the IT staff at Jones supports 300 applications and 12,000 workstations. The center uses Technology Med (TechMed) for their admitting system. The system includes registration, inpatient charge, payment entry, master patient index, admission, hospital billing, and more. The TechMed system has been accessible since 1998; Jones is beginning to plan a replacement of this systems because of the fragility of the software (Wager, 2013).

While Carson is developing a financial plan, she should also look to develop a completely new strategic plan for the company that sets the tone for how the company is going to direct itself for the next 3-5 years. This is another good opportunity to get the board involved and to make them a part of the conversation of what direction they want to move the company toward in the coming years. Carson should stress the companies market position with them and what they could do to improve on that position. Barclay Memorial is licensed for 400 beds but last year operated only 275 beds with an average daily census of 249 patients. Despite these low numbers, the number of deliveries last year was at an all time high with 3,216 and this number is likely to increase the following year. Surgeries also totaled 6,201, which has the potential to increase, if Carson can get the hospital on board with expanding the number of surgeons at the hospital to handle increasing patient volumes. Orthopedics should also be a topic of conversation as it is in a position to grow in the future. By looking to improve on these services, Barclay Memorial can expect to improve on their position in the market.

In the healthcare field, there are forces that drive practice and develop change within an organization. There are both internal and external forces in which not one organization is immune to (Kotter, 1996). By establishing a vision of the company, a sense of purpose and direction is created, working towards change within the forces (Huyer, 2014). When people participate in a vision, they work towards a common goal and identify what needs to be changed in order to reach that vision. In this paper, a presentation of Banner Health will be discussed, along with its mission and stakeholders, driving forces, viability, as well as an analysis of forces, a response to change, a vision for change, and an evaluation of change.

My role is of a CEO in Trinity Community Hospital, and I am tasked with the development of a new service line, i.e. an orthopedic center. For approval and buy-in purposes, I will present the findings to the board of directors. For all those in need of assistance, to provide quality healthcare is the mission of Trinity Community Hospital. Profitability and growth, service excellence, staff achievement, safety and quality are the four basic principles of success at the Community Hospital. The medical staff members and outstanding employees and emphasis on providing exceptional services and care to the patients are the features that distinguish the Community Hospital from other healthcare facilities. To consider for the community and the facility, the most valuable service determined for Trinity

St. Mary’s Regional Health Center have restructured the way health care services are fulfilled. We exist to improve the efficiency of healthcare services, by simply, focusing on the needs of our society. By redefining the way healthcare is delivered, we can better serve our community by offering a variety of services We intend to provide treatment options that are cost-effective, treatment that is relevant, and consistent with our objective and vision for this healthcare facility. Thank you for allowing St. Mary’s Regional Center to continue to serve you.

Patients need to see that the hospital offers high quality care in addition to the best possibility care and treatment options. For the patient diagnosed with rare forms of cancer and highly aggressive forms of cancer, the concern is for the quality of care and comfort for the patients who are ultimate dying. This is why the center needs to continue to raise the bar and focus on improving the overall quality of life for there patients.

I have been given the opportunity to create a new healthcare facility, and I have chosen to

when compared to the thousands of people in the United States but the number of 1,960 is not

When it comes down getting a clinic back up and running, appropriate and necessary changes must be implemented into the system that would steer the project towards a positive outcome. In order for Reid to keep Blake Memorial clinic up and running, he has to take a couple of incentives into consideration such as whether or not to cut staff and personnel, freeze wages and salaries, eliminate weekly in-clinics, or to eliminate the site as a whole.

Columbus Regional Health (n.d.) serves 10 counties in Southeast Indiana. The demographics include a predominantly Caucasian population of approximately 300,000 people (Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015, n.d.). In southeastern Indiana, about 140,000 individuals have employment, and 15% of them, who are over the age of 24, have a bachelor’s degree (Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015, n.d.). Approximately 30% of the high-school students drop out in this mainly rural area with a flat population growth (Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015, n.d.).

Background - The Arnold Palmer Hospital is 1 158-bed paediatric hospital located in Orlando, Florida; part of the Arnold Palmer Medical Foundation and rated as one of the nation's Top paediatric hospitals by U.S. News and World Report. It is the only hospital in all of central Florida with an emergency/trauma center dedicated specifically to pediatric patients. It opened in 1989, and in 2006 became a children's hospital focused solely on