Pleasant Bluffs: Launching A Home-Base Hospital Program While analyzing the case on Pleasants Bluffs, the main problem is how will they come up with a proposal for the pilot program for Pleasant Bluffs home-base hospital care and how to manage it. According to the case, it stated that Graff Salot, the director of Performance Improvement (PI), at Pleasant Bluffs Health System, is tasked with making these changes. (Erskine,2016) Therefore some potential solution might be to complete this task, he must first hired more people for administrative, and clinical. By doing this, will help to better manage the PI department and patients.
Introduction Capstone Consulting Group has been approached by the Medical Associates to perform an executive summary regarding a land option and the changes in the Swift Health Plan. Medical Associates needs a recommendation concerning a 225-acre land on whether to sell only 25 acres closest to an anticipated highway or if they should sell all 225-acres. Swift Health Plan is announcing changes and Medical Associates need a recommendation on how to get in the best position for their developing managed care markets. Land Option In 1980, Medical Associates acquired a 30- year option for the 225-acre of land by the facility that established a purchase price not to exceed ‘the average prevailing rate plus 10 percent for undeveloped farm land in Hillsboro County’ (Seidel and Lewis 2014).
The article describes the events that happened at Memorial Medical Center during and immediately following Hurricane Katrine in Uptown New Orleans. Once the power was knocked out and running water, the hospital tempter rose to about 100 degrees and resources became limited. As resources became limited Anna Pou was force to result to triage which she was not trained for, therefore her method of triage was questioned. Another doctor, Cook, who was the administrator of Memorial ; his methods of patient care were also questioned. In order to evacuate the hospital in the time frame given to him by the state police, Cook gave Pou instructions on how kill four ICU patients who were obese.
A Financial analysis determines how well an organization is performing financially and whether improvement is needed by reviewing the organization’s financial statements and calculating ratios. I have reviewed Robertwood Johnson University Hospital’s, Saint Peter’s Healthcare System’s (Saint Peter’s University Hospital), Catholic Health East’s (Saint Michael’s Medical Center) financial statements and determined the following calculated ratios. The current ratio using the balance sheet will determine whether Robertwood Johnson University Hospital’s, Saint Peter’s Healthcare Systems, (Saint Peter’s University Hospital), Catholic Health East’s
However, this should be a learning experience that hospitals have to be more prepared for situations like this to happen. A number of factors like how the Memorial Medical Center was built was a huge problem, the power sources were vulnerable to the hurricane and were damaged. The wall 's structure of the hospitals was too weak and were able to get destroyed before help arrived. The faculty of the hospital were also in need of preparation on how to deal with the situation. We have to keep this in mind and remember that health care professionals will always have the best interest for us for our health and
• Topic: St. Jude Research Hospital • General purpose: to inform • Specific topic: To inform others of the wonders of St. Jude • Thesis: St. Jude is a place where all children with all types of illness are welcome, and every patient is treated with care. I will be informing you of St. Jude from personal point of view as a patient and informing you with research I have found on my informative topic. Introduction: • Attention getter: Danny Thomas,opened the doors to St. Jude Research Hospital on February 4, 1962 in front of a crowd of 9,000 people. The building was star-shaped and designed by an African American designer named Paul Revere Williams. In 1969 the Hospital expanded and welcomed a patient care center with Hillary Clinton
Last week I found the information that I gathered from the assignment on conducting a visit to a local healthcare facility to hold the most interesting concepts from me. Having worked for different healthcare facilities, I have had my share of Joint Commission visits. It is not at all a visit that hospital employees look forward to. Learning about the details behind what the surveyors intend to achieve by examining hospital practices, questioning employees and asking patients about their stay makes more sense now.
The novel Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink gives an inside view of what happened at Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina (2005); a disaster inside of a disaster. The lack of preparedness or ethical decision making is quite disappointing, considering Memorial hospital is located in New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans is well below sea level, and experiences frequent hurricanes and flooding. Memorial hospital itself had little to no plan for evacuating patients once the storm hit. Without power, many of the patients, especially those who were ventilator dependent, became at risk of death.
Over the years, the organization has constantly completed exertions to developments later it was first created in 1945. Kaiser Permanente is an combined accomplished maintenance capability that developed exposed to the communal in 1945. In Denver Colorado, Kaiser Permanente (KP) lasts to be one of the foremost health care organizations. In addition to Denver Colorado, KP attends several different countries crossways the state and over $44 billion in profits, helping 9 million members across the United States and also, Kaiser Permanente achieves clinics, hospitals and the health care plans (Winston, 2012). KP’s organizational structure established a different way to compare to the other hospitals in Denver Colorado.
Kaiser Permanente (KP) was founded in 1945 at the height of the Great Depression (Kaiser Permanente, 2017a). Since their humble beginnings KP has strived to provide the best care possible for their patients and improve on health for their members. Kaiser has grown from a small hospital, to a large foundation by making appropriate changes and using strategic planning to ensure members receive the health care they need in terms of quality and safety. One method of strategic planning KP uses is appreciative inquiry, a method and philosophy that identifies when the facility functions at its best and builds from those situations to create a vision of the future and work towards that vision (McNamara, n.d).
Genesys Health System which is a nonprofit, health care system which provides a range of health care services to patients in Genesee County and surrounding areas. Genesys Health System has apply the Triple Aim’s approach to correcting three issues at hand. The first issue deals with the importance of primary care issues. The second issue deals with health promotion the last issue deals with patient self-management support effort. The purpose of this paper is to understand and evaluate the patient care performance approach used by Genesys Regional Medical Center.
1- It is no easy task for a healthcare organization to formulate a strategic plan. The strategic formulation process includes directional strategies, adaptive strategies, market entry strategies, and finally the competitive strategies. Each step in the formulation process, builds upon one another to come up with a plan on how the organization will be strategically managed. Directional strategies are concepts that explain the mission, vision, values, and goals of an organization. Adaptive strategies guide the organization on whether to expand, reduce, or maintain the scope of service.
The changing climate as a result of the advent of value-based care continues to place significant demands on hospitals, medical providers, healthcare organizations, and physicians to take a completely new look at the marketing strategy. A coherent strategy and sustained quality are critical in today’s healthcare market to attract new patients, retain existing clients, and maintain positive and productive relationships between the patients and hospital staff. To be viable today, healthcare organizations have to utilize effective strategic planning to develop integrated marketing strategies that makes it efficient and easy for the target population to identify what they need, make informed decisions, and provide insights and new information – not just basic promotion. Also, such efforts have to be constantly evaluated to ensure highest quality that fosters better outcomes and more value for the
Likely stakeholders and their profile Overseas students (OSHC) Visitors & working visa Travel insurance Pet insurance Life insurance Corporate health Strategic values and likely benefits for individual stakeholders Medibank help people to make positive and affordable health choices • Medibank members have access to MI health • Range of health and support services • Able to speak to medibank nurses 24/7 • Health advice line • Online health information • Mobile health
There, anyone of any color could get quality health care. Daniel, as a doctor, went looking for work. Nobody seemed to want a black doctor, so he descided to create his own hospital. A hospital that black people could work at, and one that would provide care to blacks as well as white people. Hardly any other hospitals would provide care for black people.
