Challenges Faced By The Hospital

The healthcare sector is one where all key players should strive to ensure that they do not commit any errors in their operations; because it mostly involves the decision of life and death to a human being. Hospitals, therefore, have to ensure that they work towards ensuring that their patients feel satisfied with the service that they receive upon visiting the hospital. Hospitals remain assured to improve their satisfaction scores by creating a conducive working environment that allows their employees to undergo career growth. They also align their behavior and set their minds towards the achieving the hospital’s goals and objectives. Hospital management needs to communicate with their staff and put into place measures that give priority to meeting of all the patients’ needs; so that they can successfully attain and maintain a respectable satisfaction

The cost of Medical equipment plays a significant role in the delivery of health care. The clinical engineering at Victoria Hospital is an important branch of the hospital team management that are working to strategies ways to improve quality of service and lower cost repairs of equipments. The team members from Biomedical and maintenance engineering’s roles are to ensure utilization of quality equipments such as endoscope and minimize length of repair time. All these issues are a major influence in the hospital’s project cost. For example, Victory hospital, which is located in Canada, is in the process of evaluating different options to decrease cost of its endoscope repair. This equipment is use in the endoscopy department for

Data can be collected on multiple ways, from the point of medical care and patient satisfaction. The scenario points to pressure ulcers and the use of restraints, in both situations I believe that there was a fundamental lack of knowledge by the staff and disconnect by management.

Also, the supplies cost was lower than what was budgeted. The budget was estimated around 45,000 with supplies left over at the end of the month. At the end of the month there was way less supplies left over then there was expected to be. A lot more patient’s needed to stay in the hospital for longer periods of time due to observation. This meant that we were using more supplies to help with the health of these patients. These patients were a priority to the hospital even though some of them did not have insurance. They were already going through a lot emotional toll, we made sure that they were comfortable. With more patients in the emergency room more supplies were needed. We also had to make more room for these patients and beds were borrowed. For example, the need for needles double in this month. Even though this may seemed like it might not be a lot everything adds up. When they patients were kept for observation more supplies and equipment were used. One thing that also made our budget not be successful is because a lot of our medical machines weren’t

They failed to want to work together to help the whole community. Each manager, is either bias to all indigents, or indigents not of their race. They needed to work collaboratively to meet the patients’ needs.

Crittenden Health Systems used to be a decent healthcare facility till employee’s hours started getting cut, staffing started dwindling down and important components of the hospital were done away with causing patient’s lives to be in danger.

They did not have robust systems to assess and monitor the quality of services given

The 1st Lesson: Hospital values must be in line with what patients want. The key driver for patient satisfaction is the courtesy, not efficiency of the hospital. Patients judge the service received by courtesy, but employees are managed according to efficiency and safety. Although provide safe care is paramount, the hospitals do not learn any credit for providing safe clinical practice and environmental safety.

In the article, The Case of the Unhealthy Hospital, written by Anthony R. Kovner, a through description of a struggling hospital, Blake Memorial Hospital, is given. This paper is a SWOT analysis, and addresses the strengths and weaknesses within the hospital, as well as opportunities and threats outside of the hospital and in the surrounding community.

Additionally, the unwillingness of the business office employees to accept onsite help from the hospital financial analyst team. They appear to be content with the status quo, which has resulted in their current financially precarious situation. They do not have the foundation needed, which should be as described by Weiss, Hassell, and Parks (2013) “…fertile enough to accept the seeds of change and to nurture them to grow” (p. 492).

However, the recommendation concluded for the president was “it would be very important to keep everyone on their toes about quality control”. When leaders of the hospital do not solve root causes of issues and subscribes to superficial remedy that only covers up the real problems. The problems will not be solved and similar mistakes and errors will continue to occur.

Although the analysis is limited and subjective it can offer great insight to the separate factors of the SWOT analysis. This insight can open the door to making positive changes in the organization. It is important to use the SWOT analysis correctly and it can provide effect results. For the Community Hospital, they have a great amount of strengths and opportunities, however, like all strengths and opportunities there are weaknesses and threats that impact both. It is important to look at the strengths and opportunities and find ways to overcome the weaknesses and

In April of 2000, the Downtown Health Clinic (DHC), which is run and overseen by Perpetual Mercy Hospital (PHC), found out some troubling news and was very concerned about it. Perpetual Mercy Hospital was concerned about the possibility of a establishing a similar clinic five blocks north of their facility. The main concerned are that the new and upcoming clinic may take away DHC’s current patients and that such a similar clinic so close could put a damper the DHC’s profitability and financial

Blake Memorial Hospital was already in a huge debt and Reid could only borrow a certain amount since the hospital had to pay its previous debt, so Reid thought of cutting down the costs. He also thought closing down the clinics would give a great boost to the financial condition of Blake Memorial leading to provide better quality of care for the patients. But there was a debate about closing the clinics because the director of clinics of Blake Dr. Susan Russell didn’t want the clinics to shut down. She argued that the patients that visit the clinics they wouldn’t visit the hospital even if they were getting free transportation provided. Reid was confused about how he should improve the quality of care and manage the financial records of his hospital that was in charge of. He asked Dr. Russells to send him the report of clinics records to see what kind of patients come in and for what services.

Modern society has developed formal institutions for patient care. The hospital a major institution offers considerable advantages to both patient and society. Number of health problems requires intensive medical treatment and personal care which normally can’t be available in patients home or in the clinic of a doctor. This is possible only where a large number or professionally and technically skilled people apply their knowledge & skill with the world class expertise advanced sophisticated equipment and appliances. The excellence of hospital services depend on how well the human and material resources are utilized to promote patient care.