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Organizations are establishing themselves in a new market to provide a needed service, increase customers and expand brand awareness. An organization’s growth strategy plays a vital role in the long-term sustainability of its healthcare system. Market penetration comes with the benefit of reaching additional customers in a business’s primary market and the potential to increase revenue. A marketing plan enables an organization to apply its values, mission, and capabilities to increase its sales, reach its objectives and sustain a competitive advantage with the purpose of improving its market shares (Cellucci, Wiggins & Farnsworth,2013). A company’s strategic plan will support and maintain its long-term growth objectives by building a solid
Comparison of the Transformational Model and Accountable Care Organizations Tiresia Kliegl National University HCA 402 Healthcare Administration COMPARISON OF THE TRANSFORMATIONAL MODEL 2 Abstract Healthcare organizations are not only going through technological changes but changes in management practices as well. These changes will challenge healthcare organizations practices, policies, and patient attitude. Comparing the transformational model (TM) with accountable care organizations (ACO’s), this paper will explore how each model improves quality of care, access to care, and reduce cost while discussing their differences. The transformational model focuses on healthcare establishments becoming “learning organizations (Sollecito & Johnson,
Introduction The healthcare industry is facing many challenges today such as aging populations, increases in healthcare expenses, labor shortages, new diseases, greater ethnic diversity, and new technologies. All of these changes make it necessary for (Barzdine,2012) a competent manager to play a significant role in making decisions that affect the success of the healthcare organization. This paper will examine the key leadership and financial management competencies for health care managers in the MENA region and discuss the competencies that other studies from different countries recommended healthcare managers in order to establish good examples for healthcare managers in the MENA region. Healthcare organizations nowadays are changed by shifting healthcare and focus more on value-based rather than volume-based delivery of healthcare (Madden,
The organization used the management improvement plan to target goals and take action that results in meaningful improvements to the healthcare system. Success and progress of company goals can be monitored through the development of an organizational performance management system (OPMS) as implemented by Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Hamilton NJ (Nelsen, 2005). Robert Wood Johnson utilized a five pillar approach that included quality, service, finance, people and growth. Sharp HealthCare added a sixth pillar to their approach and focused on service, quality, and people (Burns, Bradley, & Weiner, 2011). For quality Sharp HealthCare focused on patient safety, measuring infection control, and score on licensing and accreditation.
There are several challenges that a CEO will face with the changes and pressures in healthcare. Where in the past quantity was important, quality is now the new face of healthcare. Patients do not want to be treated as a number, but as a person. This means that there should be proper training in place for staff members. A company that has a staff that stands out, will always come above a mediocre staff.
There are many stakeholders involved with health care administrations. Those stakeholders can be patients, health care physician, insurance providers, pharmaceutical manufactures, hospital organizations, community clinics and government. Each different stakeholder has their own individual vision of health care administration. This causes conflict due to the nature and differences in vision. which then can cause conflicts among each stakeholder involved.
My background is in the retail industry, with that said, I’ve held management positions throughout my 27year career. I could easily relate the management style of healthcare to that of retail. I directed a team of 400 men on one shift to received, put away, select, and ship merchandise from a 2.2 million so. Ft. warehouse to our stores, controlling the inventory and reduced the shrink to 0.1%, as Manager of Inventory Control and Quality Assurance for Sears Holdings Inc.
If developing an effective healthcare system is merely to invest more money, build many hospitals, or to hire more workforce into healthcare sector, it would be very easy for many nations. Governments have great motivation to improve healthcare system evidenced by huge government spending and the concentration of public policy toward healthcare system. Public policy can be seen as one influence upon community health and all other factors what would impact overall health. Government, by using public policy, is trying to reduce or eliminate unhealthy condition and promoting activities that improve overall health. Unfortunately, public policy has been experiencing many issues regarding improving healthcare system.
Total quality implementation is a goal that is highly contingent on desire primarily and ability secondly. Any organization that desires to implement tactics that will overall yield a higher level of quality can be positioned to achieve their desire after coordinating their resources to accommodate their strategy. Unfortunately, however, as is the case for many organizations, the strategy is sometimes implemented without the necessary regard for various organizational factors. Oftentimes in situations such as this, an organizations desire to achieve total quality related more to a mere “idea” than a well-planned strategy. Total quality is for healthcare organizations the hinge on which success hangs and in many ways may be the deciding factor
Across the United States, it is common to find nurse-managed health centers that offer accessible health care services to the people. Nurse-managed health centers are a basic necessity in healthcare because they provide affordable and deserved care to the unprivileged population, while at the same time educating and training nurse practitioners. Usually, such health care institutions are led by an advanced practice nurse and as a result, need careful and efficient management and leadership skills and models. With the role that these centers serve, there is a need for an advocacy strategy for the nurse-managed health centers as a way of overseeing their effectiveness in service delivery grow. One of the factors that can improve management delivery
Any characteristics or capability that gives the organization a competitive advantage is an organizational strength (Goetsch & Davis, 2013). When a health care organization can deliver a high-quality product or service, it is an organizational strength that can give them a competitive advantage over others in the market. Value is one way to present the quality of service that an organization offers. Value is added to health care when additional services of quality, that patient desires, can be given with at the same cost or lower cost when compared to others in the market (Margolis, Mackey, Sarwar, & Fintelmann, 2015). Organizations should not only look to their strengths when building a strategic plan, but also ways that can exploit these
Previously, majority of healthcare systems were driven by other goals such as ensuring enhanced care access, containing the costs of healthcare delivery, and promoting patient convenience/customer service in a bid to improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare. However, the financial collapse had far-reaching consequences for the healthcare systems as it
United States has many strengths and weaknesses within the health care system. I am going to focus on the strengths of the health care system in the United States and how they measure up to the health care system in Japan. The life expectancy of individuals within Japan is eighty three years, which is on average four years longer than in the United States. America now ranks 54th in the world for life expectancy (who).
Healthcare organizations’ goals includes provide quality, value priced, safe health care services and ultimately, improve health outcomes. In addition to this primary goal, healthcare organizations also seek financial stability, community value, ethics and employee engagement. In this context, leaders are asked to efficiently use the available resources to optimize the managerial approaches to direct their teams towards more productive environment and positive interactions with patients. Healthcare setting-unlike business setting-is a more complicated system that consists of different professional teams and departments that usually don’t share the same objectives or planning strategies due to the diversity in the services provided.
Healthcare is becoming more dependent on technology. From advancements in hardware that help to save lives and cure disease, to software that allows for the transferring and storage of private patient data. Healthcare systems also rely on technology to control costs and ensure an optimal patient experience. The drawback to these innovations is that hospitals have seen a marked increase in the use of electronic information and a resulting increase in the level of exposure to cyberattacks, which target an organization's use of cyberspace to steal information or disrupt, disable, or destroy related information resources. These cyber threats have made most of healthcare's trusted technology less reliable and there is a race to find solutions.