The Five Case Studies : A Pre Knowledge And Skills Needs Assessment At The Newport, California Hospital

Today, health care is one of the most the important subjects in United States. There are many Private and nonprofitmaking organization dedicated to health care. This paper discusses the readiness of Kaiser Permanente as a health care organization to respond the future health care needs of citizens. This paper also contains its strategic plan that addresses issues relating to network growth, nurse staffing, resource management and patient satisfaction.

The Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) six aims of quality provide an advantageous framework to progress the quality of care in the U.S.A. health care system. IOM developed six aims for improving to provide safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable patient care (Institute of Medicine, 2001). Organizations need to strategically plan to evolve in meeting IOM’s six aims and to remain a financially sound entity. Strategic planning involves defining the future and stipulating the measurement of achievement (Sare & Ogilvie, 2010). The purpose of this paper is to start the initial steps for creating a strategic plan in a healthcare organization, through describing and evaluating an unmet need, considering the mission, vision, and values, providing the background context, vision, strategic goal, and consider the broader issues.

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.

The ever-changing environment in healthcare requires strategic planning teams to address a handful of specific critical issues that will lead to success in the long term. In an industry as diverse and large as health care, Scripps Mercy will face many challenges but will need to avoid the temptation during the environmental assessment phase of its strategic plan. Zuckerman (2012) states, "Failure to produce a limited number of issues to address in subsequent planning activities almost always dooms the strategic planning process" (p. 43), too often healthcare is riddled with issues; an effective environmental assessment will condense these concerns in a solid and clear way. All the new upcoming changes in healthcare reform and technology will have Scripps Mercy face many challenges in information management, their demographic served, and staff recruitment and development.

Primarily deductive process used to test pre-specified concepts, constructs, and hypotheses that make up a theory

The society we reside in has evolved to the point of no return. Most of our health care system consist of technology, implementation, goals, scanning, monitoring, forecasting and assessing. However, critical strategies and resource priorities involve ensuring that all the essential elements are currently met within the organization. Also, prioritizing strategies are as follows strategic thinking, strategic planning and managing strategic momentum. Each facet acknowledges and identifies what is important in hospitals and health care. Therefore, the delivery of each process allows the organization to recognize the need for the patient and population. THE LITTLE BOOK “the plan sets direction for the organization and through a common understanding

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,

Selecting the most appropriate strategic plan is essential for an organizations continuous growth and development. Specifically, looking at the health care industry, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a world renowned medical facility, that provides high quality health care services to their patients. This consists of everything from direct patient care to research studies. As a non-profit organization, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is still a revenue generating business. With that being said, as a business they are required to analyze various tendencies in order to make the best decision that is most beneficial for the organization, the patients and all other stakeholder’s. By identifying Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s

This paper will present the first part of the course project outline for the Southeast region needs assessment. The focus is a large medical/healthcare center in Tampa, Florida known as Tampa General Hospital (TGH). This paper will outline a brief description of the selected region and settings needs assessment. It will present a proposal for an educational program designed for TGH nurses focusing on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, and will conclude with summary statement.

This strategic management case study plan for Cardinal Health Inc. was developed by the student using course learning resources, outside sources, and other relevant miscellaneous data and facts. The materials

In business there are strategies that need to be fulfilled. Starting a business or health care organization we need to use strategy planning. In the strategy planning of our business or health care organization we need to map out the mission, vision and goals that we want our business or health care organization to meet. My paper is going to be on the Veterans Health Administration strategy planning. This paper will review their internal and external assessments, competitive marketing analysis, identification of stakeholders, an overview and assessments of services provided, competencies and

Case studies are a research method that seeks to derive an in-depth understanding of a single or small number of real world cases (Yin, 2012). The process by which this specialized research is performed is briefly outlined in this paper.

This report is on developing organizational vision and strategic direction. For this purpose a healthcare organization is taken for analyzing the given learning outcomes of the assignment. The first section of this report assesses the development of an organizational vision involving environmental assessment and stakeholders. Second section of this report will discuss about communication of the vision so developed to the stakeholders and finally the last section of this report makes an assessment of the implementation of the organizational vision and strategic direction.

Data Collection is a vital aspect of any type of research study. Erroneous data collection can impact the results of a study and ultimately lead to invalid results. Data collection methods for impact evaluation vary along a scale. At the one end of this scale are quantitative methods and at the other end of the scale are Qualitative methods for data collection. Choosing a particular data collection method will depend on the accuracy of information they will yield and the practical considerations, such as, the need for personnel, time, equipment and other facilities, in relation to what is available

This section will start with a comparison of three possible methodologies for data collection: ethnography, survey (or interview) and real time experience tracking. And then sampling and data collection methods will be examined followed by a description of data analysis.