The American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC)
Introduction: (AUBMC) is a medical centre operating in an environment of volatile nature, facing great challenge externally and internally. The medical establishment has taking strong stride in changing leadership through appointment of Dr. Mohamed Sayegh as a new dean. His task was very difficult since he had to deal with not motivated staffs, and a great deficit which is plethora of process of inefficiencies, his difficult task is to change the route of the medical centre to meet international standard. First he restructured the management team, set clear expectation and new vision, with the major problem to deal with the lack of patient-centered services, and the great tension between
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SWOT analysis alone will not provide all the answers for (AUBMC), but it will support (AUBMC) to analyze the environmental threats towards strategic decision. Thus SWOT analysis can be defined as a marketing tool for auditing the American University of Beirut Medical Center and its environment. It will support the American University of Beirut Medical Center in strategic planning and supports the decision maker of the American University of Beirut Medical Center to focus on key issues. (Humphrey, …show more content…
Lastly the fact that the hospital build and equipped with most modern technology displaying good growth and expansion, including more than 3oo beds, and attracting more than 260 top medical faculty members resulting in creating effective taskforce in Sept. 2010, to improve patient and hospital communication, and improve schedule an
The use of the media is another key to the hospital’s
What types of strategies do you recommend based on your analysis ? SWOT Analysis is a strategic method that is implemented by a company, in order to determine their Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats regarding a business undertaking. The company defines their objective and determines what the external and internal elements are that can have a positive or negative impact on reaching their goal. The purpose of every SWOT analysis is to recognize what the main internal and external factors are that are vital in attaining the objective of the firm.
Without strong communications, this team may not find their balance. It is important to collaborate and build this trust among the office members. The doctors can’t effectively lead change without the understanding of the staff to make the necessary
Physicians and Hospitals go hand in hand when it comes to the medical care of patients, and it is this relationship that allows the patients to receive the care they need and deserve. It is also this relationship that we as health care administrators need to understand. In order to fully understand this relationship we need to define the concept of the integrated physician model. We also need to explain the importance of clinical integration in the strategic planning process, and the dynamics of and controversies surrounding accountable care organizations and alternative approaches to the current health system. I will also explain the advantages and disadvantages for hospitals and physician’s models.
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.
Abstract St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a pediatric treatment center and research facility. They focus on cancer and other catastrophic childhood diseases afflicting children around the world. St. Jude is a world leader in developing new and improved treatments for children with cancer. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a nonprofit organization located in Memphis, Tennessee. Danny Thomas, the founder, opened St. Jude’s doors on February 4th, 1962.
Wheeling hospital collected data for patient satisfaction was collected from 4/1/2016 to 3/31/2017. Wheeling hospital completed 1779 surveys in this period with a response rate of 26%. This was a bit shocking due to more people taking the survey than previous thought. The state average of patient’s reporting their nurses communicated well is 81%, while the national is 80%. The hospital’s average was only 77%, and was not very shocking due to the importance of nurses being advocates for their patients.
A SWOT analysis can be done for any company, product, place, industry, or person. They can serve as a precursor to any sort of company related action, such as exploring recognizing new initiatives, making decisions related to new policies, identifying possible areas for change and improvising. Answer: (b): SWOT analysis is performed to improve business operations by taking into account the Strength, weaknesses, Opportunity and Threats.
It has one of the fastest growing tourist destinations, with a safe environment in means of security. It is classified as a high income developing economy by the IMF (International Monetary Fund). The geographical location of the country itself, being located between Asia, Europe and Africa is a huge advantage to the investors. SWOT ANALYSIS To evaluate the company in ways of progress, success and the faults of the company, an analysis called the ‘SWOT ANALYSIS’ is used. It is a strategic planning tool that creates a response towards the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and that the threats of the business.
A SWOT analysis is a tool used by organisations to identify its internal strengths and weaknesses, but also the external opportunities and threats. Therefore, this allows the organisation to assess what can be used to aid in achieving their objectives, i.e., strengths and opportunities, as well as aspects that can be improved on or potential problems that can be faced, i.e., weaknesses and threats, as they pursue on achieving business objectives and/or decision making. Explained S.W.O.T. Analysis: a) Strengths Caterpillar Inc. holds a very strong brand image worldwide that directly associates it with high quality products that they provide. In 2014, Caterpillar ranked as the number one brand in heavy equipment followed by a strong competitor,
C) Provide the senior managers of Alphabet Games with a set of guidelines to follow that would enable them to carry out an effective SWOT analysis. Provide guidelines of SWOT analysis. We can define SWOT Analysis as a strategic planning tool utilized to evaluate the Threats, Weaknesses, Strengths , and Opportunities involved in a business venture or in a project or in or in any other case of an organization or individual to pursuit of an objective it must requiring a good decision. It includes observing the advertising environment, interior and outer to the person or company.
As a CEO of Middlefield hospital, I will send out or email survey to all of our new patients and old patients to figure out the cores of our problem. In the survey, I will ask if any of them has ever attended the new hospital in town. If so what do they have over there and what we do to improve our performance? Why transfer to the new hospital and what can we do to regain their trust and welcome them back?
Strategic planning for retention of nursing staff using SWOT analysis. Strengths and weaknesses are often internal to organization, while opportunities and threats generally relate to external factors. For this reason, SWOT is sometimes called Internal-External Analysis and the SWOT Matrix is sometimes called an IE Matrix. The first step in SWOT is strength of the organization for retention of nursing staff. To develop a retention strategy is identifying the factors that motivate nurses to stay.
1. INTRODUCTION This report is a Tutor-Marked Assignment (TMA) in Fundamentals of Senior Management, submitted as part of the requirements for the Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree program at The Arab Open University (Oman Branch). Specifically, it deals with a case study involving an analysis of the leading change in the general surgery unit. This report presents an analysis of the Leading change in the general surgery unit.
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION: 1.1 Industry Profile: The health care industry is also called as medical industry or health sector. The health care industries are one of the fast-developing industries in the world. It is one of the economical segment, which offers medicines, drugs and various other services for treating the patients. This sector is considered as the social sector and is monitored by the State and Central Government.