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Name of Organization: - Northern Medical Center (NMC), Nuclear Medicine Department

Background of Organization:
Northern Medical Center (NMC) is the North Shore’s largest healthcare provider and one of its largest employers. With multiple hospitals, outpatient ambulatory care sites, and physician offices, they offer comprehensive care and a commitment to exceptional quality, safety and kindness. As a member of Partners Healthcare, founded by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, NMC provides patients with access to some of the most talented specialists in the world through much clinical collaboration. NMC is a community teaching hospital and provides comprehensive medical and surgical services to its community residents. …show more content…

NMC has a large group of leadership including twenty members of the board of trustees, President, senior management, and medical leadership including individual department chairs. The leadership oversees operations and budgets within the hospital. The radiology department has a director and five different modality (CT, NucMed, XRay, MRI, Interventional) managers. NMC has a large diverse employee population with 3800 employees, 75% female and 25% male. Nuclear Medicine is different from the norm and has an additional leader, a supervisor to oversee five staff members (a small department). Nuclear medicine has 3 female employees between the ages of 42 and 30 and 2 male the ages of 55 and …show more content…

Strategic decisions require careful and purposeful skills of analysis, creativity, and informed problem solving. The best practice for decision making is identification, inventory, and intervention (Davenport, 2009). Identify the decision to be made for the organization, identify the factors that influence that decision (who, what, etc), and apply purposeful action to implement that decision. Decision-making tools can assist with the decision making process. Tools such as, Case-Based Decision Analysis, Information Aggregation Tools, cost-benefit analysis, gap analysis, or SWOT analysis. can help to evaluate the current state of the company and how to proceed with a decision for the future. Case-Based Decision Analysis tool focuses on data collection of past experiences, situations, and solutions. By tracking past results it can help to make more informed decisions in the future. Information Aggregation Tools uses external data that relates to a specific issue at hand, evaluates data that has served as solutions to such issues, selects supported alternatives, and, lastly, rates the compatibility of such proposed solutions to the issue at hand. A cost-benefit analysis is a type of strategic decision-making tool that assesses the cost and potential benefit associated with different courses of action and choosing

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