Organizational Assessment : A Non Profit Health Care System

Peace Memorial Hospital is a 600-bed, independent, not-for-profit, general hospital located on the southern periphery of a major western city. It is one of six general hospitals in the city and twenty in the county. After doing much research, the Board of Directors has decided that they should open an ambulatory location in the downtown area, to be known as the Downtown Health Clinic (DHC). The clinic will have 4 major objectives: “1. To expand the hospital’s referral base, 2. To increase referrals of privately insured patients, 3. To establish a liaison with the business community by addressing employers’ specific health needs, and 4. To become self-supporting three years after opening” (Kerin

With the increasing violence throughout the world, an increase in healthcare workers has also increased. Providing care to people that have come from war torn areas need their beliefs and values to be respected like any other culture. It should also be considered that these particular groups may need specialized care dealing with trauma. With the increase in the need for providers, traveling healthcare providers need to consider the environments they are entering into and the differences in culture (Andrews & Boyle,

The organization selected is a governmental agency operated by the City of Phoenix. The specific department is HOPE VI and it is a part of the housing department. This department is funded by the HOPE VI grant through HUD’s Office of Public Housing Investments (OPHI) and is comprised of two programs: Community and Supportive Services, Family Self Sufficiency and Senior Service Coordination. The Family Self Sufficiency program focuses on self-sufficiency of residents living in public housing. This program creates a gateway for residents to save money for a down payment towards their own home. The Community and Supportive Services program comprise case management services for residents living in public housing and senior living sites. Senior service coordination focuses on meeting the needs of elderly residents within the senior housing facilities.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) introduced five core competencies for healthcare professionals, to improve the United States healthcare system: provide patient-centered care, work in interdisciplinary teams, employ evidence-based practice, apply quality improvement, and utilize informatics (Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2003). IOM insists that should all five competencies are met, quality patient care can be achieved. Thus, healthcare organizations need to continually seek quality improvement in order to enhance patient care. The organization need to revamp their current charting system, in order to improve patient care.

The NCAA is a non-profit organization that organizes and executes college sports, which includes football, basketball, etc. Key word from the previous sentence would be “non-profit organization”. What kind of “non-profit organization” makes as much money as they do? The NCAA players bring in great revenue with their outstanding efforts in bringing their team up to the top, because that is what the fans like to watch. Now does it seem fair that the NCAA does not give the players back any money at all to the players that actually bring the money in? In simple terms the NCAA makes large amounts of profits and needs to start distributing some of the money to the players (History of College Basketball, 2013). According to another article, the

Accountable Care Organizations, more commonly known as ACOs, create a new set of incentives in healthcare and drives the healthcare delivery system to change. ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers, who come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to their Medicare patients. Coordinated care helps ensure that patients, especially the chronically ill, get the right care at the right time, with the goal of avoiding unnecessary duplication of services and preventing medical errors. When an ACO succeeds in delivering high-quality care and spending health care dollars wisely, it shares in the savings it achieves for the Medicare program. There are several ACO programs: Medicare Shared Savings Program is a program that helps a Medicare fee-for-service program providers become an ACO; Advance Payment ACO Model is a supplementary incentive program for selected participants in the Shared Savings Program; Pioneer ACO Model is a program designed for early adopters of coordinated care.

In examining the most important characteristics of various types of provider organizations, in terms of mission, goals, objectives, staffing requirements, policies and procedures, I first needed to determine; what is considered an organization health care provider? I found a fact sheet present by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which identify organization health care providers as “hospitals, home health agencies, clinics, nursing homes, ambulance companies, and health care companies formed by individuals,” as organization providers (National Provider Identifier, 2007). One common thread that all of these organizations have is the identifier standards, developed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and followed under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA). This standards dictates that: “all covered entities under HIPPA are required by regulation to use NPI’s (National Provider Identifier), to identify health care providers in standard HIPPA transactions” (National Provider Identifier, 2007). These organizations may contain sub-units, such as laboratory, pharmacy, or rehab services, and these units may require their own NPI for standards related to those units (National Provider Identifier, 2007). However there are other characteristics and external interventions in which these providers rely on in contemporary healthcare, in order to obtain accountability and value in their delivery of healthcare.

As an assignment for a public radio station I volunteered at, my partner and I were assigned to get sound bites. The Ralph’s in Downtown L.A. was featuring Homegirl Industries mango salsa in their deli section (Hirsch, 2009). At the event, most of the news outlets there focused on getting quotes from mayor Villaraigosa. This made it easier for my partner and I to get quotes from young adults that were part of Homeboy Industries. Through this assignment, I learned about the non-profit group and its goal to transform the lives of former gang members. This paper focuses on the non-profit organization Homeboy Industries and its contributions to the cultural region. The beginning focuses on the brief history of gang activity in Los Angeles, and

Health care is one of the furthermost significant services today that allocates with the problem of life of countless Americans throughout the period of urgent situation and vigour. Health care service chooses the natural life, natal and bereavement of an individual. The development in education, medicines and understanding of people has knowingly improved the supply of care and analysis for retrieval from sicknesses. American bazaars viewpoint for the improvements relating to medicines and health strategies. The health inventions by the Americans have prepared wonders in the

The nonprofit health organization for this week is called Elwyn. Elwyn is a human service organization, serving disabled and disadvantaged individuals.

There are different avenues an effective health care organization can improve their HRM department within that specific health care organization. One of the main roles of a HR management is the hiring and selection process of a new employees. These trends for the community in the health care organization needs to be examine. There has to be a way for a strategic planning for the HR department to become a partner in their perspective organization. This means there should be ways to develop relationships between the executives, other department and the HR department. This can then be carry into the different employment rules that are needed to be follow for a fair and unbiased hiring and selection process. There are trends that

The finest healthcare organizations cooperate a combination of technology and training to accomplish their healthcare guidelines and policies with procedures. Technology solutions turn into serious enablers to smooth this method. This approach can aid in offering a structured outline for informing, approving, and collaborating to the establishment, as well as, safeguarding that older guidelines are accurately filed and not scattered in a manner that can result in a patient not receiving proper care within a proper timeframe.

Bay State Medical Center’s mission statement is to improve the health of the people in our communities every day with quality and compassion. This mission statement is very clear and I am sure that every hospital has this very same mission in mind for just being in the system of health care. Bay State Medical Center also has forecasts for the future of Health Care and look at themselves with a vision for the Hospital of the Future. This vision is named “Vision 2025” according to their online website and they look to the future of the hospital with goals of having surgical precision, robotics and patient simulation and how medical students will be trained. Currently every health system is looking at a

There used to be a time when zoos used to be full of animals. A time when extinction was not a problem. That was the past. Today, zoos all around the world are missing many animals such as the African elephant or the dodo bird. All of these wonderful animals became extinct because we were careless enough to let them all die. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is an organization that is trying to prevent extinction from happening. WWF is an environmental organization dedicated to “protecting the world’s wildlife and wetlands” ("World Wildlife Fund"). It is one of the largest private supported conservation organizations in the world, with support from one million members in just the United States. WWF was formed on September 11, 1961 in Morges,

Organizations that strive to excel in aspects of innovation, competitiveness, and performance must have clearly defined core values that are executed by specific learning disciplines (Senge, 2010). Giesecke and McNeil (2004) stated, "A learning organization is an organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights" (p. 55). In the pursuit of defining specific practices that would produce an ideal learning organization, Senge (2008) proposes five disciplines that include, "...systems thinking, mental models, personal mastery, shared vision, and dialogue" (p. 1). In this application paper I will analyze each of the five disciplines discussed by Senge (2008) and discuss how they can be applied in an organization such as the high school where I am currently teaching to address specific areas in need of improvement.