Increasing Capacity While Maintaining Quality

They can commit to excellence by creating a great working environment for physicians; through efforts such as having plenty of medical supplies in the hospital and offering reasonable pay. When there are available equipment physicians, and other hospital staff remain motivated to carry out their duties and, therefore, will put effort to excel in all their duties; to promise patient satisfaction. Again, medical facilities can create excellence by having a suitable environment for continued learning; seeing as the medical world is full of new discoveries and research findings. Continued learning ensures that the practices that physicians undertake remain important; thereby ensuring that patients feel that they receive high quality services when they visit a hospital (Marley, 2004,

According to Porter-O’Grady, 2016 et al p 324, our healthcare systems today are at the center of what is considered major change. Much of the change today is directly related to the foundational principles, concepts and associated with complexity in systems and relationships, and an understanding by nurse leader and follower; of what it takes to make meaningful change. Nurse Leaders, registered nurses, advance practice nurses, and other followers, at every level of our organizations must be increasingly aware of meaningful and sustainable changes that improves our healthcare systems (Porter-O’Grady, 2016 et al p 324).

The entire hospital holds a total of 90 beds, 5 operating rooms, 6 examination rooms, and a laboratory. Despite the size of the hospital, they average 150 operations per week and 7000 to 7500 operations annually. Also, it is important to note that there are only 12 full-time surgeons and 7 assistant part-time surgeons that handle all operations in 5 day a week period. The last thing to take into consideration is that each patient stays 3 days out of a week starting the day they arrive. Although Shouldice’s operations seems to be functioning just fine, there is a debate of effectiveness of whether or not they are fully utilizing their full potential in relation to surgeries performed and beds being

Many healthcare organizations set goals and objections and write mission statements that reflect the way they want the public to see how healthcare is provided. This is done to guide how their healthcare providers practice daily. In order to meet these goals and objects it is necessary to have in place processes and procedures to ensure the results will be what is expected which is a positive patient experience and outcome. In order for our organization to reach this goal there is a coaching and execution package that will provide step-by-step processes and procedures to ensure that everyone is doing the same thing at the same time

The sector, health, that I have chosen includes a variety of people from ranging from elderly too adult too teenagers, children and baby’s. A hospital is a health care institution which provide treatment for many diseases and conditions.

Throughout this course I have learned about the various challenges that impede productivity and efficiency at today’s hospitals. These issues facing the modern healthcare organization come in varying forms from technological, staffing, and financial to name a few. There are no limits to what hospitals can face in these modern technologically savvy times. Below are the major issues that today’s hospitals are facing, though there are many facets to these topics it will be described as best as possible to meet overall challenges:

Service improvement is arguably one of the most important challenges facing the National Health Service (NHS) today, as both patients and service users search for a ‘good quality’ service, and expect services to be both efficient and effectual. All staff within the health service need to be educated and competent in their roles, in order to be able to offer a service that is beneficial to the patients that make use of it.

Reading and understanding the information that was given in our text book about transforming the healthcare system for improved quality, rely on enhancing the value on healthcare. Their ideas is to improve healthcare in both financial and clinical aspect that could adjust the quality of healthcare. Meanwhile, if hospitals, doctors, and medical team. improve the value base care, it can or may provide better care, better health and lower cost. According to the Aetna the solution is to provide and deliver better health and more

In part A of the assignment a discussion has been carried out to critique the written project relating to leading organization change to improve hospital performance. Tracey Burns, the executive director of nursing came up with the named project to diagnose and tackle this issue of waiting list problems and a 30 million pound financial deficit which had gotten a lot of media coverage after realizing that the major problem was the

Assume that you are a quality officer who is responsible for one (1) of the state’s largest healthcare organizations. You have been told that the quality of patient care has decreased, and you have been assigned a project that is geared toward increasing quality of care for the patients. Your Chief Executive Officer has requested a six to eight page (6-8) summary of your recommended initiatives.

Despite the challenges, this facilitating experice has instilled me a degree of appreciation of many staff who work hard behind the scene to ahcieve the common goal of providing the best care possible to patients within the scarce resources. It was possible to see how good working relationship with other disciplines can improve overall efficiency.

Shouldice Hospital had an excellent well-developed, focused service delivery system. The business strategy was to not only provide its patients with a quick, quality and low cost surgery but also providing an unforgettable experience and comfortable environment in the facility.

Dr. David Torchiana (Cardiac Surgeon) and Dr. Richard Bohmer (Quality Improvement Administrator) want to improve the process in the hospital by

I found your mention of the quadruple aim to be interesting since I had just recently seen an article discussing this additional principle. There has been a lot of emphasis in healthcare on improving the patient experience, population health, and reducing costs. However, this comes at the cost of staff having to work more with less time and fewer resources. This might be due to the transition of healthcare from being a service industry aimed at taking care of patients to focusing more on the business of providing care (Sikka, Morath, & Leape, 2015). This shift in priorities from providing safe, high quality care to increased productivity and efficiency in order to cut costs is resulting in poor morale and decreased engagement from staff.

There are many operational level improvements like governance, process, policy & procedure even technology can be addressed. However, none of these tactical solutions can help Memorial Hospital to gain and sustain long term success without solving a few major problems. These problems are listed below: