Shriner's Hospital Case Study

In mid-April 2000, Sherri Worth was faced with some very unsettling news about Pate Memorial Clinic’s future with a competitor potentially moving into the area. Worth was the assistant administrator at Pate Memorial Hospital (PMH) and was also responsible for the Pate Health Clinic (PHC). A study by the competitor was being done to see whether sufficient demand existed to establish a clinic 5 blocks north of PHC. The two biggest concerns in regards to the new competition were:

The North Texas State Hospital (NTSH) is part of the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) administration. NTSH is a mental healthcare facility that has two campuses: one department is located in Wichita Falls, TX and the other in Vernon, TX. Including both campuses DSHS is the largest mental hospital in the state of Texas, which provides psychiatric services for the mentally ill. NTSH is the only facility in the entire state of Texas that provides forensic psychiatric care. Forensic psychiatric care is a specialized service for prisoners who have mental disorders. NTSH offers a 284-bed maximum security program for adults and a 78-bed adolescent Forensic Program (DSHS Center, 2017). NTSH aims to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of individuals by providing the right stewardship, reducing health care problems, improving public health awareness, and preventing diseases. In order to improve health and safety, NTSH is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The Joint Commission is an independent, not for profit association that set standards to evaluate

Jones Regional Medical Center is a huge academic health center with 900 beds and are known for its research and teaching hospitals. Additionally, the IT staff at Jones supports 300 applications and 12,000 workstations. The center uses Technology Med (TechMed) for their admitting system. The system includes registration, inpatient charge, payment entry, master patient index, admission, hospital billing, and more. The TechMed system has been accessible since 1998; Jones is beginning to plan a replacement of this systems because of the fragility of the software (Wager, 2013).

Tulsa Memorial Hospital (TMH) is one of the nine acute care hospitals that serves in the general population area. Historically, it has been highly profitable due to its well-appointed facilities, excellent medical staff, good-standing reputation for quality care and its ability to give individual attention for each of its patients. The hospital, in addition to its inpatient services, operates an emergency department and an urgent care center located two miles from the hospital across the street from a major shopping mall.

Shriner’s Hospital for Children provides services and care to pediatric patients with orthopedic, burns, spinal cord injuries and other concerns in an ambulatory setting. And, I had the opportunity to observe how specialized care was delivered to pediatric patients and how the team prioritize and collaborate the individualized to each patient.

Often times in life, people have derived strength from their family and loved ones to help them endure tough times. When facing an obstacle, people have thought about the people they cared about to overcome whatever stood in their way. People have withstood hardship knowing that when it was over, they would have people who loved them to come back to. Memories of special friends or family members have helped individuals find bravery in grim situations. Sometimes, even if people did not wish to go through hard times for their own sake, they would face hard times for their family’s sake. In All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr proved family and relationships built with people bring about strength that helps people prevail even through the toughest of times.

CM spoke to Kiara Gelin (youth) regarding a follow-up on services. Youth reported she continues to attend the Partial Hospitalization program at the Jersey City Medical Center. CM was informed that youth stopped attending the TASC program due to time conflict and youth will resume the program in September. CM and youth disused employment; youth had a job interview at Wendy’s, Fast food restaurant. CM encouraged youth to apply at local jobs in the mall, CM verbally provided youth with a list of jobs that are hiring in the community. CM inquired about the Cook, Eat and Talk program. Youth reported the family will follow-up with the program once the family phone is working. CM agreed. CM and youth discussed mentor

Supporting Point-According to the author Culp-Ressler (2014), the new government data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one quarter of American families have trouble paying their health care expeneses (Culp-Ressler 2014).

St. Mary’s Regional Health Center have restructured the way health care services are fulfilled. We exist to improve the efficiency of healthcare services, by simply, focusing on the needs of our society. By redefining the way healthcare is delivered, we can better serve our community by offering a variety of services We intend to provide treatment options that are cost-effective, treatment that is relevant, and consistent with our objective and vision for this healthcare facility. Thank you for allowing St. Mary’s Regional Center to continue to serve you.

This paper will analyze Shriners Hospital for children, a non-profit hospital system owned by Shriners International, through the theoretical lens of Bolman and Deals Leadership Frameworks (1997). This paper will define structural and symbolic aspects of the organization, analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats through structural assessment to identify growth and risk potential, and propose possible solutions for identified issues.

The placement of the service will be in Madera, CA because it is in the same area of Madera Valley Children’s Hospital. This also lessens the travel time and gas used by these patients’ families when they are directed by the hospital to Early Miracles.

People we don’t know or may never know can have a tremendous positive effect on our lives. Sometimes we discount the emotional support family and friends can provide. The effects of a single moment in time could lead to a lifelong physical ailment, if not for the help of family and strangers. Having a strong bond with family and our community can make the difference that is needed to make it through a tumultuous time. Having to face a life-altering accident on our own can be scary, but can be turned around in some of the most unexpected ways. Sometimes from people we never expected help to come from.

Today in our lives, we are surrounded by many people. Some of these people we are surrounded by are either people we do not care for, or they are the people that we cannot spend enough time with. These people we enjoy the most of, are either our family or our closest friends. You may think that friends and family are just a like, but they do differ from each other, and without either of them our life would feel incomplete.

Columbus Regional Health (n.d.) serves 10 counties in Southeast Indiana. The demographics include a predominantly Caucasian population of approximately 300,000 people (Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015, n.d.). In southeastern Indiana, about 140,000 individuals have employment, and 15% of them, who are over the age of 24, have a bachelor’s degree (Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015, n.d.). Approximately 30% of the high-school students drop out in this mainly rural area with a flat population growth (Economic Opportunities through Education by 2015, n.d.).

Background - The Arnold Palmer Hospital is 1 158-bed paediatric hospital located in Orlando, Florida; part of the Arnold Palmer Medical Foundation and rated as one of the nation's Top paediatric hospitals by U.S. News and World Report. It is the only hospital in all of central Florida with an emergency/trauma center dedicated specifically to pediatric patients. It opened in 1989, and in 2006 became a children's hospital focused solely on