Strategic Planning Process: Reducing Wait Times In A Community Hospital

Lengthy time wait can result in an individual becoming more sick, due to the lack of attention they are receiving. In the province of Alberta, a women says “her life is wasting away after a series of miss communication.” Its been almost 10 years, and she still hasn’t received her treatment. As a country viewed as one of the best countries in terms of healthcare, the government fails to provide the citizens with proper care. However, analyzing Canadian wait time from a decade ago to the present day, Canada is ranked number 11 on the lowest wait time according to First minister accord. Canada advance to the top of the ranking by improving on some steps, such as diagnosing problems fast. By diagnosing the problem first, health care worker are able to aid patients to get the best and most efficient health services. Also, the main foundation to a a shorter wait time is the a strong and cooperative staff. With a great staff that are communicating, its easier to get through many patients in a day. (https://secure.cihi.ca/free_products/HCIC2012-FullReport-ENweb.pdf) If majority of our taxes is contributing into healthcare, we should be provided with fast and efficient service. Another alteration with having a lengthy wait is it affects individual who are in need of a

In order to eliminate the inefficiencies witnessed in many public and private hospitals that serve a number of patients, an integrated approach to handling the daily workload is necessary. There is need for all departments within the hospital to work closely together in ensuring more effective and efficient service deliveries. In this paper, a planned change is going to be carried out involving designing a new system that incorporates all the departments within the hospital. This includes the surgery department, pediatrics department, dentistry department, nursing department, pharmacy departments, laboratory and testing department, X-ray and Physiotherapy departments, Equipment maintenance and Engineering department, Information Technology

Strategic Planning is an essential first step in the development of a result-base accountability system,” (Schilder, 2013, p. 1). In strategic planning an organization must know their goals, missions, and how to reach them. Health care facilities are in huge demand for the elderly and for people who lives in low-income communities. A person who receives good quality health care services can prevent the spread of contagious diseases. This paper will describe the need of the community, population it is serving, and a brief description of the facility.

Without strategic planning, several things can go wrong including missing out on great opportunities. Strategic planning is an organization’s outline to help achieve its purpose. Although strategic planning begins at the top of the pyramid, it is more effective when it is carry out as a whole among other in the organization. Having a good internal control system in place protects an organization from high risk, fraud, and more. Jackson Memorial Hospital has several weaknesses which are similar to its competitors and other health care organizations. For instance, Mount Sinai Medical Center one of Jackson Memorial’s competitors, encountered lack of strategic planning that led to many issues such as with readmissions, surgical complications,

With so many cases of unfilled position in the hospital patients is not obtaining great services. Patient not receiving proper cares leads to closures, because of prolonged postponements that have led to deaths. Patient complaints at the emergency room have increased in recent years. Numerous patients that were admitted to the hospital’s emergency room are at high risk of dying. Six percent of emergency rooms in the U.S. have closed. These closings took place in the inner-city and low-income areas, but with an emergency room visit increasing by nearly 51%, the overwhelming amount of closures.

(CITE) Despite its success the Canadian health care system has some concerns associated with it and It is important for policy makers, and the health management sector to address these issues and provide solutions for them. Health management is a complex social goal, and a major initiative in Canada, which is heavily relied on the public sector. One of the major issues the health care system is currently facing the over crowded emergency departments and extremely long waiting times. . In this paper I will discuss the issue of overcrowded hospitals as a results of the rising population of the elderly. Many of our hospitals are over crowned, there are long waiting time, and the elderly are not provided with sufficient care. Overcrowding will place an increasing amount of burden on the hospital by delaying testing and diagnosis times, creating a shortage of nurses and doctors, and it may also have a negative impact on the financial state of the hospital.

They will be able to interpret and utilize this data to continually improve their customer service and continue to reach their goal of becoming the department to work for within CHKD. The project, with continuous improvement, will also cause an increase in revenue that would be generated from the heart center and distributed among CHKD. The cardiology department or heart center, which includes all locations, generates a large portion of the revenue that the hospital receives and this project can continue in those

There are several strengths for starting a chest pain program at this particular facility. One is the location of the hospital. The hospital is located 45 minutes south of the nearest certified chest pain center. For our patient that lives in one of the rural counties it can be almost 90 minutes before they reach that facility. If the patient is having a true cardiac event, a quicker facility to get to may prevent irreversible damage to the heart. Second strength is the newly cardiac expanded services in 2011 the cardiac cath lab started performing percutaneous interventions. Cardiologists from surrounding hospitals have started performing procedures and referring patients to the facility. Third strength is the newly renovated cardiac cath lab. The cath lab has expanded to two more cardiac catherization room and electrophyics lab. Fourth strength is the redesign of the emergency room with new emergency room physicians and new leadership willing to incorporate change. The fifth strength it will have a strong community and military community support. The board and military community has always supported the facilities new

This research is trying to answer the question of how to reduce overcrowding in emergency rooms? Would people would want to access published wait times provided on the internet, and would this guide a patient make decisions on where they receive their care. The hypothesis being one, crowding maybe reduced with having upfront information, and therefore also provide increased patient satisfaction due to waiting less. Patients would have more choices available to them such as

To organize and present my strategic plan, I plan on going through the information that has been developed over the course. I will introduce myself, the team members, and review the Grinnell Regional Medical Center mission statement. I will then move into the SWOT analysis and the strategic SMART goal that has been developed. I will review the important stakeholders who were identified. Next, the action plan will be reviewed and describe the business functions that will be impacted during the implementation of the plan. I will give an overview of the evaluation process including the metrics to be utilized, along side of an explanation of the control method that will be utilized to ensure that the plan is successful.

The first step of inventory and visioning is accrued out objectively to gather and absorb date of the market in addition to indicators and capital resources. This stage will ensure that the strategic plan and the current program are deliberated. The analysis of the current hospital facilities will be carried out in this stage.

Queueing analysis has been used in hospitals and other healthcare settings, but not fully utilized. There has been no proper approach in dealing with queues theory and models and accompanying risks, some of which will be still contentious. Due to the myriad of health risks that come with patients taking long on queues, there is need to investigate and unravel untold sufferings among the patients, The results of this study will be used to a larger extent by the medical practitioners in the Ministry of Health, County Governments and Iten County Referral Hospital management to ensure that queuing theory is properly

In this era of technology, focus on increasing rate of change in the healthcare industries become vital. As the step to ensure the growth, few steps taken by the organizations such as developing process, restructuring continously, mange the outcome of changes made. Strategic planning is a well-developed approach that give lead to the organization in developing forward-looking, feasible strategies or encounter potential demise. For the past 50 years strategic planning has been used in the industries. In healthcare industries, they start adopt to strategic planning since the 1970s which focus on providing services and meeting the needs of populations. Since then, health care industries were become independent and not-for profit. The planning

Environmental analysis should, in theory, be part of a health organization 's strategic planning process. Case studies of Wow Hospital (WH) facilities, a community hospital are presented to determine empirically how environmental analysis was actually incorporated into the strategic planning process. It is

The six sigma quality improvement plan for the Wishmewell Hospital is being designed so that waiting times at the emergency department of the hospital can be reduced. The waiting times at hthe emergency departments of hospitals across the United Sates have been increasing in recent times because of the reduction in the public health services because of the financial and economic crisis facing the country. As a result, large numbers of people have to do without adequate health insurance coverage that is needed to avail the health care services of private hospitals. They have to use the emergency department as a source of primary health care.