SWOT Analysis
Strength
BCUHS being an imperative Academic Medical Center, it has much strength in comparison to their competitors. Within the Bay City population, BCUHS is very well known for their brand name that makes them highly distinguishable around the area. Having a strong brand name allows BCUHS to market their services to new consumers as well as maintain their pervious consumers. Research is a major component of the BCUHS mission. Not only does BCUHS use research innovation as a way to develop their brand, but also translate the research into new treatments and cures. In addition, grant-funded innovations in health services management have successfully improved outcomes and reduced the costs of treatment. Another strength BCUHS
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The first weakness of the BCUHS is their lack of investing in technology upgrade. BCUHS is known for their cutting edge technology; however, it has not been operating much revue. Having spent millions of money on the Electronic Health records and still be inefficiency is a major weakness. Many BCUHS physicians still complain about the additional time burden placed on them. Second weakness of the BCUHS is that they have high-cost operating structure and not enough money flow coming back. The hospital currently budgets on a $2 billion budget. Third weakness is that BCUHS lacks in specialty physicians. There are fewer physicians in Apollo Bay regional area for its population size.
Opportunities
With many strength and weaknesses, there are many opportunities for growth and development. With a strong foundation for research, BCUHS has an opportunity to upturn medical innovations and use new research techniques to help the hospital compete with other organizations. Second opportunity is that the hospital can develop new and creative initiatives for preventative health measures and healthcare programs within the community. This is will attract the community members to get involved and familiarize themselves with the hospital and their
I began collecting data by contacting the IT technician of Bru-Hims. It was quite difficult to get a response because the IT technician is being deployed out of the office to each health facility on a daily basis. I have gathered a list of questions specifically for the IT technician. Beforehand, I wrote down the questions on a piece of paper before implementing it into Microsoft word. I organised a meeting with them until they finally agreed.
My goal is to become a primary doctor working with underserved communities, especially the Latino community. My work and volunteer experience and my professional goal are committed to provide service to the community with cultural competence, diversity and service orientation. CMSRU humanistic education in the art and science of medicine will complement these life experiences, characteristics, as well as my professional and personal interests and goals. As a medical student at CMSRU I will be able to receive an excellent education in patient care, will feel included in the CMSRU community, will share and strengthen my professionalism, collaborative and and civic responsibility skills. The mission and core values of CMSRU match my interests,
Another weakness is different payer requirements for certain procedures and treatment. There are various items that can prevent the clinic from obtaining revenue for its services such as not having a prior authorization, the payer deems the treatment wasn’t necessary or the payer implemented a new requirement for this treatment that was not met. These are constantly changing and it is difficult for healthcare organizations to keep up with these ever-changing policies. B3. Evaluate at least two opportunities of the organization HG Clinic is a multi-specialty clinic and continues to build on these specialties as they come out and as the healthcare industry grows and changes.
1). WHHS is committed in assuming the leadership role in improving and maintain health status of the resident by: identifying and assessing community healthcare needs; developing mechanisms to respond to the identified need within the financial capabilities of the District; committing to a culture of patient safety and accountability; adopting identified best practices; providing access to high quality; cost-effective health services through an integrated delivery system and providing appropriate employee; professional and community educational resources to enhance patient care and health promotion throughout the District (“Our Mission and Values”,
For HCA, to avoid future disparities offering lower prices to existing patients and new patients, who could not afford the services, is a good initiative to not lose patients and therefore not lose profit. Another way to help with the disparities is to set up clinic services to patients who are not able to afford medical assistance at the same time this clinic can provide education to patients on how to better their health and lifestyles. If an organization treats and helps guide a patient he/she will continue to come back to get treated or educated. With this, it will help the organization target disparities, help the community while still making a profit because it retained their
Values. Rex Healthcare acknowledges that excellent quality care begins with its employees. The organization values their employees and views them as family (“Rex Healthcare,” 2009). Rex Healthcare is committed to honoring its entire staff for their contribution and dedication (“Rex Healthcare,” 2009). Employees are often recognized for their excellent care in each individual work area.
In his 2011 essay “Cowboys and Pit Crews,” Atul Gawande said, success in the face of “complexity [in medicine] requires group success.” This concept drives the way I want to practice medicine. Complexity is inherent to medicine. It requires a multifaceted, cooperative approach to ensure patient safety and care. Most recently, I saw this in a palliative care physician.
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.
There is a large deal of re-training, planning as well as obtaining new systems to go along with the upgraded codes. With the number of codes increasing from 14,000 to 68,000, diagnosis criteria must be re-learned. Finding time to do so has proved to be one heavy challenge for doctors and currently still is. Data Security and Breaches Another challenge that the healthcare industry face is Data Security.
can prepare them. It is hoped that advances in medical technology will continue to improve the survival rate of patient’s life-threatening diseases. For this reason, the community college should grow their existing health care programs as well as create short-term post-secondary programs, one-year certificate programs, and post-graduate programs leading to advanced certification in the health field (Romano and Kasper, 2009). The Nurse Aid refresher course has been in the community college sector for several years, however another idea is a Registered Nurse refresher course.
The Methodist Digestive Institute (MDI) at Methodist Dallas Medical Center consisting of Centers of Excellence (COE), as well as subspecialty programs and services, are uniquely positioned to address clinical needs and to remove barriers of care during the patient treatment continuum for digestive health. MDI represents a dynamic collaborative of multidisciplinary physicians, researchers, and allied health professionals joined together for a unified purpose to improve and save the lives of patients who suffer digestive diseases and conditions. MDI seeks to take the best features of an academic model that includes innovation, education, and research to create a new paradigm where such work can be done in a community setting to achieve game changing transformative care, clinical
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Through this program I hope to learn the fundamentals of community based research, how to advocate for health policy, a most importantly how to educate communities on health. I believe that is the most rewarding thing I can get out of this program. Having the ability, the power, to change someone’s life, by just giving him or her basic health care knowledge is so empowering. Knowing that I changed that life, that because of me hopefully their health will better instead of worsen. Through this program I hope to learn from the community, to learn their experiences, which will allow me to be even more conscious of the disparities they are forced to face, hence causing me to ponder “how can this issue be fixed?”, “what policy can be implemented”?.
The system as a whole is now comprised of 20 hospitals, over 290 physician clinics, 18 community network hospitals, 18 home health care organizations, and four accredited colleges across its nine geographic regions that employ over 30,000 people total (UnityPoint Health, 2017). The mission of UnityPoint Health is to “Improve the health of the people and communities we serve” and a vision of “Best Outcome Every Patient Every Time®” (UnityPoint Health, 2017). Through this mission and vision, UnityPoint has served over six million patients, has had a $285.5 million community impact and has had approximately a $7 billion economic impact over the past year alone (UnityPoint Health,
Time has to be set aside to make sure employees are educated about the new equipment, and have a good understanding on how to operate it. Training employees will cost additional money, but it will help to prevent critical mistakes from being made. Sometimes employees are resistant to new technology and procedures, and prefer things to stay the same. Older employees may consider quitting or finding another job at another hospital where thing are simplified. If employees quit, the hospital is faced with the additional cost of hiring new employees to fill the vacant positions.