River Park Hospital has budgetary constraints on their healthcare system, leading to a limited amount of employees. With this confronting constraint, it causes the human resource department to limit the amount of employees to hire, causing the hospital to be more state-of-the-art and teaching employees how to perform more skills, rather than limiting them to a minimum skill-set. Capella Health, a major healthcare organization, has been the major sources of revenue for River Park. In 2005, River Park Hospital was one of the first four hospitals from HCA to be partnered with Capella Healthcare (Capella Healthcare, 2013). Capella plays a major role in the hospital’s capital and operating expenditures. Capital Expenditures have directly come from Capella, since Capella Healthcare has generated so much revenue after partnering with GTCR Golder Raunder and other investors. Operating expenditures for the hospital have been generated from Capella Healthcare and its partners, as well as patient services (Capella Healthcare, 2013). …show more content…
These budget increases have come from the expansion of resources and the partnerships from newer and more accredited investors, leading to a greater support of the hospital. According to financial studies, revenue has increased 1.14% from the previous year, increased to 24.2 million, at the end of the 2014 quarter (see below). Between Capella and other investors, there are few other sources of funding for River Park Hospital and it is always reaching out for partnerships and investors to support them. River Park Hospital has some old sources of funding that hasn’t been dissipated; they seem to stay affiliated with their old sources, even while seeking new ones. These trends have had a positive effect on the management of the organization, as it is continuously on the rise and still
The objective of this project is to improve the Springfield region’s financial performance for the Saints Health. The Saints Health Region (SHR) is accountable for health care services for the 28-county Springfield Arizona Service Area. SHR Health Plan provides operating funds for SHR, and the services are provided through SHR Medical group, local physicians, and other providers. Currently, the operating margin is negative with an operating loss of $110.31 M although the membership growth is positive. As consultants, our team strives to develop strategies to improve the financial performance of SHR by focusing on short-term and long-term viability.
It’s very crucial that the technology proposal includes these recurrent expenses established not only on current amounts, but also on the healthcare organizations’ future situation. In general, upcoming planning expenses have to account the employee’s resources that are required to meet the organizations’ needs. This would entail the support of administrative employee for the technology, overall technical support to maintain the organization’s growth and management capacity to maintain the organization’s strategic planning. This could be kept in-house or given to outside cohorts, but the expense implications of both models must be assessed as a component of the planning process. A lot of work and time should be set aside so the organization can isolate known and estimated expenses and develop and create them within the general organizational plan so they everyone know what they will need to pay for and when.
Case Study: Puckett Animal Hospital In the case study of Puckett Animal Hospital, veterinarian Dr. Richard Puckett struggles to find the right course of action for his growing business. Rich demonstrates genuine concern for his employees, providing both hourly and salaried workers access to benefits and continuing education. Rich is forced to cut costs when an increase in minimum wage nearly double the hourly workers’ rate of pay, and. Rich has a history of investing in his employees, and this investment has paid off—his business is growing, and clients are happy.
Background statement: Heritage Valley Medical Center has had a wonderful reputation for providing excellent health care services to their community. Initially, their community was 80% Caucasian, 40% African American, and 5% Hispanic. However, in the last 5 years, the population has changed to more minorities and the whites have moved out to the suburbs. This caused the Center’s occupancy rate to go down 40% because many of their traditional, more affluent, private-pay patients had left the neighborhood. To bring in revenue, they campaigned to bring in more Medicaid patients.
Healthcare Office Manager Horizon Medical Center – Horizon City, 79928 HORIZON MEDICAL CENTER Basic employment information Horizon Medical Center is a clinic located in the center of horizon where many people can reach it faster, this clinic also provides flexible hours and night hours, therefore Horizon Medical Center is a very occupied place that sees over 90-100 patients on a daily basis. Our clinic consists with a total of 4-5 providers and 15 staff members, both administrative and clinical at any given time. Daily responsibilities The office manager should be able to manage the office personal and duties in a positive and motivated manner. The main responsibilities and duties an office manager will include the following: • Hire and
After each month, the manager and two other people that do not deal with the financial statements meet and look other each office. They look at their expenses, number of patients, and revenue. Once they look over them they decide if changes need to be made and if so how they will make the changes. I also learned about the ethics of their company and approaches they take to prevent possible
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.
Mednax is an independent group practice in the United States specializing in the delivery of neonatal, pediatric subspecialty, and anesthesia services across the country. As one of the largest accountable care organizations of its kind, the company benefits from geographic and economic scale, enabling it to spread out administrative costs across a wide network of practice locations. Its increasing scale gives it strong negotiating leverage with hospitals, especially as the company 's intangible assets the high degree of specialization of its physician workforce are in high demand and difficult to replicate (Wisner, 2016). A network effect appears to be at play, both in the company 's widening practice base and through its own proprietary
In 2005, a family friend by the name of Randy Birdsong was a patient at Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital located in San Antonio, Texas. The Veteran Affairs (VA) medical staff was performing surgery on his abdomen. After the surgery, he was notified that there was insufficient space to accommodate his continued care. The V.A. advised him to keep his wound clean with a fresh roll of gauze, and sent him on his merry way. A few days later, Randy was back at the V.A. hospital with a noticeable infection taken place in his abdominal region.
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,
As the healthcare landscape continues to shift, medical providers and hospitals are continuously being challenged to develop clear and concise visions and redesign care delivery in ways that will usher proper transitions to value-based care. As value-based healthcare continues to take root, more and more hospitals and providers are finding themselves with little option but to join the movement. However, the jump from previously utilized fee-for-service models to value-based healthcare is not an easy one, and many healthcare organizations are finding it difficult to do so. The greatest challenge lies in successfully making the transition from volume to value-based healthcare in ways that are financially stable. Such inherent difficulties faced by those within the healthcare system are what have necessitated strategic
1. Attached is the pro forma operating budget. 2. a. Potential funding options would include state funding from the County, value-based payment contracts, and hospital funding. b.
Introduction Massachusetts General Hospital is ranked as second in the United States in 2013 by U.S. News & World Report (2013). This hospital is a 999-bed facility in the center of Boston and is known for providing sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic maintenance in almost every speciality of medicine and surgery. Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) provides healthcare at local, national and global levels (About MGH, nd, World-class patient care). Impact of a social event on the growth of MGH Prior to the MGH inception, there were marine hospital and Boston dispensary to attend to the healthcare needs of the local people. The chaplain of Almshouse in Boston, Rev. John Bartlett planned for providing state-of-the-art health care to the
Based on this case the cost driver is to properly distribute the direct cost among the different divisions. Dr. Julian would like to control her departments costs by having them distributed fairly among the divisions without affecting the hospital’s reimbursement/revenue. Carroll University Hospital is currently using the standard costing unit, which is based on the cost of bed/day for inpatients. Currently the present cost accounting system that is being used at CUH takes the total direct cost of the departments, then allocates the indirect costs and distributes it among the departments evenly regardless of the actual resources being used in those departments, and without considering that there may be some patients in these divisions that may require more resources than others, this method does not seem to recognize the different activities,