The Progress of Stem Cells Use in Healthcare: Strategic Planning. Strategic Planning of the Blood Center (BC)as status quo example: A Long-Term Care Model. The Healthcare Organization Clarity of the Mission and Vision of the Organization: Description of the Program’s Goals and Objectives (Long Term Care). The mission of Lifesouth is supported by the fact that everyone can benefit from blood and blood components in their lifetime, either as a donor and or a recipient patient with a disease condition that requires blood-related therapeutic procedures. The blood center is a good example for the status quo concerning the need for human tissue. The Community Blood Center (CBC) is a nonprofit, volunteer blood center, founded in 1974 in Gainesville, Florida (Baker, 2003). The strategic plan is to analyze blood center performance and to determine if it is feasible to add a LTC facility.
The main goal of the blood drive is to increase access and opportunity so the community can increase the rate and number of donations (Baker, 2003). Increasing access is done in order to meet the area hospital demand. The objective is to be the link between one who is willing to give life and those who depends on donated blood for their life (Baker, 2003). The recovery period can be prolonged for some procedures. Changes have resulted from growth (Baker, 2003).
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Patients and donor must visit the blood center many times throughout the condition or life.
There are several current issues in the blood banking industry (Kastl, 2005). The current issues are: stem cells research, blood loss measurement technology (Clinical trial, 1994-2005), platelet preservation (Lifesouth, 2004), and human immuno-deficiency virus HIV/AIDES (Handbook, 2000). This research is top news today (Top news,