HRET Healthcare

Globally, the United States has one of the largest and most convoluted healthcare systems, whereas universal healthcare coverage seems extremely farfetched. Annually, the US spends over $3 trillion on healthcare. Nevertheless, we have the worst health outcomes when compared to other industrialized countries. As stated by Anja Rudiger (2008), “Recent data suggest that around 101,000 deaths a year can be attributed to the underperformance of the US healthcare system.” Thus, the United States’ healthcare system greatly relies on revenue. Both funding and the distribution of services are commercially structured and held accountable by investors to increase financial gains. According to Andrew Jameton and Jessica Pierce (1997), “the US healthcare system increasing appears to have

Impact to Healthcare organizations - These increases in cost raise questions of health care expenses at the hospital level. As higher profits are sought, the cost will become unstable for all, thus causing many to postpone going to the doctor. However, there are many complicated problems associated with our healthcare system. We will focus on main issues that can correct many related problems within the current structure. More importantly, we need to find ways to ensure all Americans have access to health care; and we need to hone in on how we can get the best value for the $2 trillion dollars we spend annually on healthcare.

HRSA – Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The mission of HRSA is “to improve health and achieve health equity through access to quality services, a skilled health workforce and innovative programs” (About HRSA, 2017). HRSA programs provide high-quality primary healthcare to pregnant women, people with HIV/AIDS and to those who are geographically isolated or medically vulnerable. Also, it provides training to the healthcare professionals and maintains databases that protect against healthcare malpractice, waste and fraud. In addition, to assist an organization with its quality improvement (QI) efforts, HRSA apprehends the need for a toolkit of objective educational tools and resources” (“HRSA Clinical…”, n.d.). This toolkit consists of practical and convenient tools which support an organization’s new or existing QI program by implementing proven strategies and performance measurement techniques. The major goals of HRSA include “improving access to quality care and services, strengthening the health workforce, building

As discussed previously, the Affordable Care Act of 2010 passed by the legislature, drastically changed the entire healthcare economy. In fact, ever since the ACA was passed it was required by law for hospitals to increase the amount of attention given to the individuals of the community in order to meet their needs. Also, the ACA allowed close to 10 million individuals to have health insurance through Medicaid and private health insurances, which has a high impact on all the hospitals, such as Yale New Haven. For example, since millions of Americans can now afford health insurance, there is a large influx of patients who can go to hospitals and actually afford the overall cost. The non-profit hospital of Yale New Haven is benefiting in two ways. First, they are achieving their mission by caring for the individuals of their community who now have insurance and secondly, they are being compensated in terms of revenue to improve their organization in regards to hiring the greatest physicians and having the best technology and supplies to treat their large influx of patients (Cunningham, 2015). The rise in health insurances increases the total amount of money earned by that non-profit organization and the amount of patients receiving great quality of care.

The healthcare system in America started as a predominantly volunteer system where patients were required to pay little to nothing for treatment. Since it began, the healthcare industry has seen tremendous changes that have transformed it into a business entity which has operations like financial management, strategic planning and functional specialties to keep the industry viable. The industry is one of the largest in the country employing 15 million people with a projected increase of jobs with 3 million jobs annually. As the healthcare industry continues growing, services and personnel are changing, and various dynamics are coming into play to accommodate changes (Smith, Saunders, Stuckhardt, & McGinnis, 2013).

Following on from this we can see from government level down to localized trusts, social policy is important. In economic sense the financial decisions effect all aspects of healthcare. As indeed do the frameworks and benchmarks set by the Department of Health. These can effect the clinical treatment of a patient/client. Benchmarking can change the way healthcare workers approach their work. While financial restraints effect what resources can be offered.

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 experience in both my previous career in nursing and human resources has dealt with approaches in quality improvement in patient safety and different metrics in the turning up organizational behavior as well as up swinging the operations of the organizations respectively. We live in a rapidly changing world, and healthcare industry is not exempted from it. Because I will be playing an indispensable role in the future, I am very interested on the concept of quality improvement and what not and identify possible future challenges and draw lessons from healthcare organizations that has spearhead innovative changes to providing healthcare by pursuing the triple dimensions of the improvement of healthcare in general that is Improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction); Enriching the health of populations; and Reducing the per capita cost of health care.

Analyzing a complex health system is necessary to understand the various leadership roles and how that can affect a dynamic system. In this paper, the Cypress Regional Health Authority will be analyzed with a focus on a subsystem in Leader Saskatchewan. A critique of the system and its strengths and areas for improvement will follow. Finally, a discussion into how that system relates to the LEADS framework will occur.

Health care systems are very complex, working best through constructive interconnections and interrelationships among their many stakeholders such as providers, employers and payers. To meet the needs of this complex systems, new ways of leading are required. Tackling the leadership potential of health care professionals through collaborative interrelationships which requires knowledge, skills, vision, and innovation are suggested to be a more effective method for creating new dynamics that share and support complex processes. With this in mind, Deep River and District Hospital (DRDH), a rural health care leader that provides a broad range of high-quality services to the Upper Ottawa Valley currently has an advertisement seeking for a Chief

According to Kaplan, et al (2014) and Howieson & Thiagarajah (2011), the following actions are few of the major tasks of value-driven healthcare leader:

The health care industry is diversely complex. The health care industry is a set of connections between people and technology; physicians, pharmacies, medical clinics, health insurance, hospitals, school health programs, and voluntary health agencies all make up a huge, diverse system. Within the stock market, the health care industry is very prominent, however, its stability is weighed; many different variables determine the stability or instability of health care markets. Many take into consideration the determinants that affect health care, when investing in this sector, while many others don 't fully acknowledge how these variables affect the health care industry. Variables like the cost of health care, access, and the quality of health care play an important role in whether investing in health care or not, and determines the financial numbers of many health care providers and health care biotech providers, as well. For example, if the quality of health care in a hospice facility is very high, they must be acquiring very high-quality technology and equipment, resulting, in majority of the cases, in high-price cost of services, resulting in a negative variable for the biotech provider and manufacturer because not many people want to pay a high service, and may not pay for the cost of equipment. This is an example of how variables, such as the ones already mentioned, can affect the health care sector and health care investors.

The healthcare system plays a key role in the economic stability of our country, as every year trillions are spent in attempt to combat disease and health issues that plaque humanity. As it makes up a significant amount of the expenditures in the economy, so the costs associated with health care of those in pain from illness and injury, including lost productivity, increased need of assistance in living and also the cost of death in some cases, is important to the economic stability and over all standard of living in our country. The key to economic prosperity is balancing the need for care with the costs of illness to keep as many people healthy and well without breaking the bank of collective society. The costs of healthcare have been increasingly problematic in recent years with so many issues surrounding the current system. With the “total health care spending in the United States expected to reach $4.8 trillion in 2021, up from $2.6 trillion in 2010 and $75 billion in 1970, meaning that health care spending will account for nearly 20 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), or one-fifth of the U.S. economy, by 2021” (Aetna). With this in mind it is apparent that as we look at the trillion-dollar industry of the medical community it seems that it needs to be a major focus of our nation as a whole and with the many issues come many creative solutions. First let us analyze the reasons behind the current cost and the major problems facing this industry and than discus what

The concept of governance within a health care organization must be well design and welcome cooperation (Berger, S. (2011). When those that make policies can understand how to apply cooperative regulatory structure in healthcare setting it is noted that self-interest is not the only way of motivating positive behavior. The concept of governance spells out who is responsible for ensuring and providing support and services to all members needing health resources (Berger, S. (2011).

A country’s economy and well-being depends upon how strong its healthcare system is. A country would grow into a stronger nation if the people are mentally and physically stronger. Moreover, healthcare systems are usually complex and complicated systems and thus, they need a lot of attention. As Donley (2005) states, “[t]he changing patterns of health care delivery have increased complexity in all practice environments” (p. 314). By a complicated system, it means how different healthcare organizations together play a pivotal role in measuring success of a country’s healthcare system. These healthcare organizations further rely on various departments within the system which are in turn led by various leaders. Thus, it is evident how leaders are the key link in deciding the fate