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A situation analysis is implemented with the purpose of clearly defining the organization actions. However, characteristics of quality health care in a nursing home is coordinate through available resources. A situation analysis that is created for a nursing home points out inconsistencies such as marginal competence, diminished quality of care, weak communication skills, responsiveness, patient experience, unreliability and performance variations. Hence, to tackle the barriers within an organization a unified system approach is essential. Often due to the complex nature of analyzing an organization necessity can lead to the precursor of utilizing an internal and external evaluation. In addition, the Health Service Organization
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However, an organization that will partake in restructuring to achieve higher efficiency involves many internal and external factors. As an organization starts to align its goals external and internal factors deem to be significant. External functionalities just as HSO’s include multi-levels of forecasting, strategic formulation, accurate determination, reporting, and control. An external analysis dismantles the layers when providing a reason. Also, External factors will measure current trends, address stakeholders, scan the organization to identify possible threats, and opportunities. All moving parts are deemed vital when creating an external and internal analysis. Moreover, analyzing and prioritizing will assist in the process of explaining operational plans, forecasting, removing barriers, and forming a new direction for the organization. A situational analysis refers to the internal and external environment within an organization. Besides, a situational analysis can be utilized to summarize all problems and opportunities that will affect the company. The internal and external effects within an organization involve the execution of strategic planning, defining the objective, budgeting, competitive entities, scanning/evaluation, monitoring, behavior, and culture. Furthermore, customer relationships and patient satisfaction are essential factors in HSO’s when establishing the benchmarks for implementing a situation analysis the include an internal and external plan. Patients/customers are vital within the external process. An external analysis process includes factors that influence the organization. Within the analysis, the criteria should involve all demographics, competitors, and providers. HSO’s are relevant to distinguish objectives, timing, and the circumstances that surround the
As you are aware Barry Staley residing at McLees, ICF CCNS-Services for people with Developmental Disability 112-16, 200 Street, St. Albans, NY 11412, has been transferred to Silver Crest Nursing Home, a Long Term Rehabilitation Nursing Facility. As of 10/24/14 Barry is now residing at the Silver Crest Nursing Long Term Facility located at 144-45 87th Avenue Jamaica, New York 11435. Prior to this move Barry was admitted from (name Hospital) from (date) to (date) receiving treatment for (condition). During hospital stay a discharge meeting was held. Subsequently he was moved to a nursing home.
Identifying external factors such as the threat of new competition in the market, the availability of substitutes for the consumer’s needs (i.e., independent physical therapist, chiropractor); bargaining power of suppliers; and rivalry among competing for service lines. The external data that Sharon obtains will enable her to plan a marketing strategy that will distinguish Honnutti Home Healthcare from other competitors by highlighting the facility’s high patient satisfaction scores and secure referral sources. Also with the information gathered Sharon would also be able to implement strategic initiatives to increase her bargaining power among suppliers and vendor in the area. The internal and external data collected will allow the organization to perform an S.W.O.T. analysis which will identify the organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats from which the growth and expansion strategy can be created, implemented and monitored
Good Morning, I am writing you to bring to your attention an issue UHC is having with Morning Side Nursing Home located in Bronx, NY. The following members are enrolled in our UHC Personal Assist MLTC, authorized for long term custodial care. The facility has not been cooperating in submitting the conversion documentation to HRA for chronic care eligibility determination. I have contacted the facility’s Medicaid Coordinator Andrea Gurango since November of 2016 regarding member Kamrun Nehar and made arrangements to follow up with her in a few weeks on the status of the conversion application. From November till now I have called and sent emails to Andrea requesting status.
Major categories of external environment issues are political, technological, regulatory, and social. While all of these issues are important in healthcare, I think that social, political, and regulatory issues are the most important in this health care environment because those issues creates a lot of change and problems in healthcare. Health care reform, a social issue, bring forth new political and regulatory issues. Increasing aging population is another major issue in health care that will affect the system drastically. Change is inevitable in the health care industry, and this changes includes new policies and regulations as the healthcare environment shift and is a so why these issues are of most
Home Care Assistant/Aide Heath Care workers help patients that may be physically or mentally ill, injured or disabled. Home care workers can live with the patient, work on weekends or week days. Home Care Assistant are always up on their feet they have tom complete all the hard work the patient cannot do. Home Care Assistant may receive some irritation and disorientation from the patient.
Second, I would assess the department for strengths and weaknesses. According to Stark (2009), this is an important start to beginning an organizational change. During this assessment, I will research data records, dispatch calls, internal and external complaints of each personnel, patrol and office operations, strengths and weaknesses of management
Management of Care Case Study Josepha is working on a medical surgical unit with three other RNs and one LPN. There is also a male and a female patient care tech. Josepha has been a nurse for four months, and after completing two months of orientation she takes a full assignment as a registered nurse. Josepha feels that the assignments she receives are not always fair, as she tends to get the most challenging clients.
Stakeholders can range from investors of finances to the community the organization is located. It is the intention of this paper to provide information about the organizational structure of the Sheppard Pratt Health System and the relationship with stakeholders. Keywords: organization, stakeholder, mental health, organizational chart, stakeholder relationship
This report is to highlight the impact residential care has on young children 3.1 What is Residential Care? Residential Care is care provided for old or sick people or children in a residential faculty. Children in care is also referred to as a looked after child. A looked after child is someone under 18, lives away from their parents or family.
Based on the case study on pages 36-37 of our text and looking at the individual and financial needs of Don and Mary, I feel that they should both live in Assisted Living Facilities. According to our textbook, Assisted Living Facilities (ALF) provides assistance and supervision of activities of daily living for 24-hour. It offers more independence and privacy, a greater choices of services, and more involvement of direct care workers. (McSweeney-Feld & Oetjen, 2012, p. 25). As their care needs change, they can also opt to live in a Continued Care Retirement Communities (CCRC) which according to the book are residential complexes for seniors that offers housing options and comprehensive nursing care with their changing needs.
Any given ward or healthcare environment may choose to implement a nursing model to guide its practice and philosophy. The theoretical framework of Orem’s model can aid knowledge based practice (Anonymous, 2010). As the model encompasses all aspects of the nursing process and acknowledges deficits that are not only a problem at ward level , but for the person post discharges , it is helpful in delivery quality, holistic, care from admission to discharge, allowing for discharge planning. Due to this approach we can derive that the model is beneficial to delivering care at all
1. What is the problem? What were the underlying causes of this problem? The problem was happened because of the new knowledge management application, which was designed to copy information across network automatically, which also led to the main switch and consequently to the system collapse.
Evaluate the importance of an internal environmental analysis for a health care organization. Determine three specific reasons why an internal analysis has become an important activity for healthcare organizations. Per Ginter, Duncan, & Swayne (2013), “Internal environmental analysis in sometimes accomplished by evaluating functional areas such as clinical operations. An internal environmental analysis is a path of evaluating and identifying the specific characteristics of an organization. These characteristics may include core competence, capabilities, and resources.
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.
What one does, is dependent on the situation. The situation can depend on internal or external contingency factors. Internal contingency factors include tasks, technology, structure, and people. External factors on the other hand comprise of economic factors, technological factors, political factors, and socio-cultural factors. Contingency theory declares that when managers make a choice, they have to take into account all aspects of the present situation and perform on those aspects which are keys to the situation at hand.