1 Model Shouldice Hospital as a processing operation with products, attributes and resources.
2 What are its competitive priorities?
3 What kind of market has it chosen to focus on?
Shouldice Hospital follows the business model of focus on a single standardized service for a narrow target of consumers, rather than to provide customized solution (as in a general clinic or hospital). It focuses on providing quick, convenient, and reliable cure for external types of abdominal hernias. The Hospital uses its own technique, called the Shouldice Method and claims to provide relatively short post-operative recovery period.
Shouldice Hospital focus on hernia repair surgery which is mostly performed on males. Shouldice operation strategy
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4 How does its operations strategy support its business strategy?
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.
Operations Keys for successful business strategy:
Warm and friendly environment
1) Hospital is carpeted to get rid of the feel and helps in reduce disinfecting smell. The objective is to have friendly environment that will help patient recuperate faster.
2) Patients are given rooms that they share with a roommate generally from a similar professional background or shares similar hobbies. This encourages building of partnerships and sharing of medical notes.
3) Patients are encouraged to enjoy their meals in the common cafeteria, so that they get a chance to interact not only with other patients but also with other doctors.
Appropriate market segment to keep cost low.
1) Healthy people who are perceived to heal and recover faster are admitted to hospital to keep the duration of the patient stays down. New patients are admitted with a higher frequency rate.
2) Hospital is a non-profit organization; cutting down on patient stays reduces costs substantially.
3) If patient is healthy enough to walk around the place, his linen need not be washed regularly (after he leaves) and he does not need bed
Meeting requirements meaning maintaining a sanitary, orderly, and comfortable interior with clean bed and bath linens that are in good condition. The facility will be equipped and maintained to protect the health and safety of residents, personnel, and the public. However, meeting resident’s wishes would be something that allows the resident to have maximum control over future medical decisions by expressing his or her wishes about medical care and the resident requests that a friend or family member remain present during the conversation, the ombudsman representative should honor that wish.
Patient has no problems on how the hospital operates their services. Patient only received service at GRH and love the way GRH provide services to his illness.
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Shouldice hospital is a leader in treating patients who suffer from Hernia. Shouldice achieved outstanding performance and reputation through its distinguished services to customers in terms of cost, quality, delivery and flexibility
Develop an innovative facility by improving the work space with state of the art facility. Thus making sure the patients
This assignment will discuss and explore the implementation of a proposal service improvement within an NHS trust. It will explore the reasoning for the change and the leadership style needed to utilise the change. The proposed change is to raise awareness of isolation room within the hospital setting in the NHS trust to help improve quality of care for patients and implementing a checklist to improve the proposed change. The advantage of isolation rooms is to increase privacy and dignity, reduce noise, less disruption from other patient and it offered a restful sleep (Maben, 2009). However, the question is whether patients in isolation rooms are being frequently monitored by staff and are receiving the same quality care other patients in bays are receiving and also whether patients psychosocial, psychological and physical well being are being met. Evans et al (2003) states that healthcare professional spent less time with isolated patient versus non-isolated patients. According
The Shouldice Hospital contains two facilities in one building—the hospital and the clinic. On the first level, the hospital contains the kitchen and dining rooms. The second level contains a large, open lounge area, the admissions offices, patient rooms, and a spacious glass-covered Florida room. The third level has additional patient rooms and recreational areas. The recreational rooms range simply from pool tables to an exercise gym. All patients’ rooms have no telephone or television, which is to promote exercising. Patients will then be forced to walk in and out of their rooms if they would like to use other facilities, with the added bonus of exercising to help with a quick recovery. The whole hospital is also floored with carpet to offer a comfortable environment, compared to a hospital where there is a disinfectant tile smell.
It is a preferred procedure amongst most surgeons mainly because it facilitates a tension-free mesh repair. The Lichtenstein hernioplasty procedure is currently the most modernistic approach in inguinal hernia repair techniques. It intersects the anatomy of the inguinal canal most efficiently without creating tension or negatively affecting the pressure of the abdomen. The use of Inguinal Hernia repair using Mesh is justified by the presentation of an inguinal hernia (Bittner & Schwarz, 2011). I choose to focus on this care approach because of the patient problems that match the conditions for this type of medical involvement. The patient has complications similar to the conditions given in the mainstream practice of Inguinal Hernia Repair using mesh, as the intrusion of the femoral space by the protrusion of the hernia after the initial laparoscopic repair, the presentation of suspect symptoms around the inguinal region and observable incarceration of the hernia and a reducible
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After analyzing this information and reading through the case thoroughly, it would be quite difficult for Shouldice to perform 45 operations a day. They have limitations due to their operating rooms and the number of surgeons at their facility. According to the case, they have 12 full-time surgeons and only 5 operating rooms. Each surgeon operates on 4 patients per day so at most, the 12 surgeons can perform 48 total operations on a daily basis. Additionally, each operation takes 1 hour and since they only have 5 operating rooms, the maximum number of operations they can perform is 5 operations per hour. Operation time
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