Case Study: Florida Hospital Altamonte

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

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

hospital’s leadership and physicians total asset control. Customization of the facility and control of the facility is a definite advantage. Appeal While renovating existing facilities should be more cost effective, it is still a short-term solution. A newly designed facility is a long-term initiative. New facilities bring in future concepts and all kinds of opportunities for new services. One of the other primary advantages to a new facility is that it has appeal to physicians, future recruits, current employees, and potential hospital donors. New facilities appeal to community investors as well. Financial According to one commercial real estate acquisitions and marketing manager, the assumption that leasing real estate costs less than building or buying real estate assets is completely fallacious. Because hospitals use different

Rio Grande Medical Center is a full service not-for-profit acute care hospital with 325 beds. Most of the hospital’s facilities are devoted to inpatient care and emergency services, but a 100,000-square-foot section of the hospital is devoted to outpatient (OP) services. Of the 100,000-square-foot OP section, the OP Clinic uses 80%/80,000-square-feet, and the remaining 20%/20,000-square-feet are used by the Dialysis Center. Increased patient volume at the OP Clinic has created a need for 25% more space than it is currently assigned. Due to its large size and patients’ need to access other departments the decision has been made to move the Dialysis Center to another location, and allow the OP Clinic to

WE CARE Community Hospital was setup in 2015 in Tallahassee, Florida. It has facilities that accommodates 50 beds and provides acute care 24*7 to the patients. The land of the hospital is spread in 21acres. It has the 5 main units along with additional wings.

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).

The facility, although a new one has a few problems, some can fix in not time others are not. The customer service area is one needing improvement in addition to the emergency services. In the area of customer the facility is not alone, there other VA’s, for example, the Phoenix, Virginia that is in worse shape than Orlando’s facility. Some patients come for appointments and a reduced

During the 1950s, Florida Hospital transformed its two story farm house to a structure that was able to care for 160 patients. They were able to make improvements to the facility, such as air conditioning, that allowed for year round care to patients. With each purchase of new facilities in the decades to follow, Florida Hospital has grown to over 20 hospitals large, providing services to many people who live in Central Florida and the surrounding areas. This has allowed the network to include many leaders in their respective fields to offer care to patients in many different specialized areas.

Campus is experiencing some "struggles" since the last Monitoring visit that took place six weeks ago. The facility stated that between April, May, June 2015 the overall resident admission and release number is between 210-250, with the average daily population number increasing. As a result, the increase is having a direct affected on campus safety and staff morale. The facility has also hired a large number of direct care staff with minimal experience within the last year and the high resident turnover rate and the increase in population numbers has cause some distress among

Tulsa Memorial Hospital (TMH) is one of the nine acute care hospitals that serves in the general population area. Historically, it has been highly profitable due to its well-appointed facilities, excellent medical staff, good-standing reputation for quality care and its ability to give individual attention for each of its patients. The hospital, in addition to its inpatient services, operates an emergency department and an urgent care center located two miles from the hospital across the street from a major shopping mall.

Founded in 1905, Emory is one of the largest Hospitals in the Georgia with 200 provider locations and 1,800 physicians in more than 70 specialties, including 220 primary care physicians. The report presented evaluates major internal and external factors affecting Emory using an analytical technique. Based on Emory’s’ Services in Georgia, it identifies strategies that have been beneficial for Emory Hospital. Emory gives high-quality care using innovative techniques, with caring personnel, a variety of healing options, and a selection of first-class skilled professionals primarily at all of their many Hospital-operated clinics. This report aims to evaluate major internal and external factors affecting Emory using an environmental analysis called SWOT. It will be based on the Emory’s Services in Georgia, and will identify suitable strategies for Emory to continue giving great service.

West Florida Regional Medical Center (WFRMC) located on the north side of Pensacola, Florida competed strongly with sacred heart and Baptist hospitals for patients. WFRMC’s CEO John Kausch was an active member of the Total Quality Council of the Pensacola Area Chamber of Commerce (PATQC) (McLaughlin, C.P., Johnson, J.K., & Sollecito, 2012).. PATQC’s vision was to develop the Pensacola, Florida area into a total quality community by promoting productivity, quality and economic developments in all area organizations both public and private (McLaughlin, et, al., 2012). John

The Florida Hospital name consists of nine campuses within Central Florida. AHS has an additional twenty-eight total campuses throughout Florida that also bear the Florida Hospital name. The nine campuses within central Florida total 2,247 beds and make it the largest single provider of Medicare services in the United States.

The Holy Name of Jesus Hospital was founded by an order of Catholic nuns in Gadsden, Etowah County in northwestern Alabama. Upon purchase of the hospital by the Hospital Management Associates (HMA) the name was revamped to Riverview Medical Center (RRMC). Hospitals acquired by HMA became a state of art facility and were improved with efficiency to ensure high quality care. Though this hospital was not the dominant health care provider in the area, it was a 281 bed acute care facility accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The hospitalists of the RRMC operated private practices throughout the city. This organization shared common medical staff with one of their competitors, Gadsden Regional Medical Center. Common medical staff not shared was those from the Emergency and Radiology Department. RRMC faced challenges in lacking clinical services offered in the areas of neurosurgery, psychiatry, obstetrics, rehabilitation and surgical outpatients that was provided by area healthcare centers/organizations competitors.

With its 1,107 beds, Florida Hospital Orlando is recognized for its cardiovascular, gastroenterology, and other departments. They want to provide a world class care services to patients and family members. At Florida Hospital they believe there is an association