Community South Medical Center Jonathan Ashby HCA 340 Managing in Health & Human Services Diana Marter 28 March 2011 1. Select one of the needs of Community South Medical Center and identify at least one strength, one weakness, one opportunity, and one threat (S.W.O.T.) for that need. How does each of these correlate to the overarching issues confronting Community South Medical Center? The biggest need that I found for the Community South medical Center is the need of clinical staff including registered nurses, respiratory therapists, and medical technologists. “The power of the healthcare workforce can have significant strategic implications for any healthcare organization, as the workforce is composed of the front line of …show more content…
If significant advances in its special service lines are made it would allow the medical center to raise its capabilities considerably above those of other surrounding hospitals and function as a regional referral center for selected types of care (Zuckerman, 2005). An example of adding a new piece of advanced medical equipment is that our facility could be the first one to offer that service in the area. Especially if the new piece of equipment is a special new diagnostic tool; other medical treatment facilities in the area could place referrals to our which would increase our revenues even more or the patient could move to our practice at our facility. In the end the it might have cost some money but the return could be greater than without out the new equipment which could lead to more new advanced technology for the medical center. A threat that could happen to the medical center if we became fully staffed could be potential poaching of other medical facilities to hire our employees. “Some experts believe that large, multispecialty practices, which combine primary care physicians and a range of specialists in the same practice, are the organizational structure with the greatest potential to provide consistently high-quality care” (Liebhaber & Grossman, 2007). With our recognitions and experience that our staff would attain their skills could become fully advanced which would lead other medical
Dignity Health Methodist Hospital of Sacramento is a nonprofit general acute care hospital located in the southern part of Sacramento on 7500 Hospital Dr, Sacramento, CA 95823. Methodist Hospital has been serving the Sacramento region since 1973. The hospital has 329 licensed bed in total, out of the 329 beds 162 are acute care bed type. Methodist hospital provides patients a full range of services ranging from skilled nursing, Family Birth Center, Emergency Room, Orthopedic, to Physical Therapy Center. It offers 24-hour basic emergency services but unfortunately, it does not offer trauma services. Provider Id 050590.
This paper strives to answer questions based on the case study “Emanuel Medical Center: Crisis in the Health Care Industry”. As excerpted directly from the case study, Mr. Robert Moen, Emanuel Medical Center (EMC) president and CEO, was experiencing a number of challenges in 2002. The medical center faced numerous challenges in its external and internal environment. First, EMC garnered an onslaught of negative attention for the “Haley Eckman incident” in which a young man, who happened to be a gang member, died within view of EMC’s Emergency Department (ED) medical personnel rendered no care and watched. The emergency department at EMC was also experiencing greater pressure to deliver services in an increasingly
Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) is a leader in community healthcare that serves patients as an 838 bed non-for-profit tertiary medical Center (CAMC, 2015). CAMC is a nationally renowned teaching facility that provides a wide array of both in and out-patient specialty services. This organization also provides the local city, county and tri state area with Level I trauma services, state of the art women’s and children’s specialty care, along with a nationally recognized stroke and vascular services (CAMC, 2015). A current component of the CAMC teaching structure includes heavy involvement in both medical and nursing education to improve the overall quality of care provided while encouraging continuous recruitment and workforce development. As home to over 9000 employees CAMC has also boasts a robust professional nursing and human resources program that work to support both the retention and recruitment of all types of health care professionals.
Discuss three or more national and local developments OR current trends in health care & discuss how those trends influence the budget and how the organization does business.
Since the Community South Medical Center enjoys a great reputation among the patients as well as the general population, it would be common to find many individuals who would like to become part of such a reputed organization. This reputation of the center should make the job of the management a bit easy as it would just need to advertise its requirements to the public and then choose the best from the applicants who apply for the job. The center can even negotiate on its terms with the applicants since there would be much competition for the posts of clinical staff and hence introduce many conditions such as a good experienced background, good educational background and so on.
| 1- Collaborative work environment.2- Cooperation between physicians.3- Changing lines of authority.4- RNs maintain professional standards across care centers.
| There is a local hospital within the community. This hospital has an emergency room, intensive care unit, and an operating room. The hospital is best known for its cardiovascular services and the care they prove to heart patients. Attached to the hospital is an inpatient mental health facility and a clinic for family planning and people with low income that cannot afford vaccines or healthcare for their
Middleville Regional Healthcare has been facing some issues in recruiting and retainage of nurses and other clinical employees. The economy has hit very hard and budget limitations have reduced the amount of money available for employee’s salary increases.
According to Health Resources and Services Administration If the system for providing primary care in 2020 were to stay fundamentally the same as today, there will be an estimated shortage of 20,400 primary care physicians ("Projecting the Supply and Demand for Primary Care Practitioners Through 2020," n.d.). In addition this projection doesn’t include the decreasing number of people perusing the medical degree and the baby boomers retiring form this filed of science. In the hand we are experiencing a significant increase in NPs and PAs. Considering this projected shortage, which is actually a very frightening situation the increasing number of NPs and PAs, can effectively be integrated; we could reduce the number of physician shortage by over 69 percent in 2020.
The day before Thanksgiving, I went to go visit Medical University of South Carolina Emergency Room. A place that I know all too well. The Medical University of South Carolina Adult emergency Room is located on 96 Jonathan Lucas Street located in downtown Charleston, South Carolina.
working outside of hospitals, so as care shifts into a community based setting, there is a strong
My trip was to go to CMMC Wellness Center; unfortunately the plans didn't go as well. So we had to stay at LHS and had a guy came and talk to us about what he does and our job shadow. Ryan Westleigh attended Bates College and eventually became coach. He has played basketball, football, soccer and ran track. Westleigh talked about his career and what he does as an athlete coach and their latest scores. He didn’t really talk about the career but I believe the three significant academics skills would be the ability to communicate by way of written expression, the ability to recognize a problem and think critically to solve it and the ability to use technology effectively. All these academic skills can be used in coaching at all times.
The community leaders were “monitoring the health status to identify community health problems” (AAPHD) in the fact that they recognized that there would be a lack of access to care now that the dentist had retired. This also “assures a competent public health and public health work force” (AAPHD) for the members of their community. In order to address this concern, the leaders worked to “mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems” (AAPHD), as well as to “evaluate the effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of person and population based health services” (AAPHD). They were able to do this by working with the local medical center administration to find a possible office space, the state health department to look into how to recruit dentist to underserved areas, and with the state legislature, who is calling for funds to incentivize dentists who go to underserved areas to practice. Finally, in using the available space and same waiting room in the existing medical office for a new potential dental practice, these community leaders are “researching new insights and innovative solutions to health problems” (AAPHD,
In all jobs including health care systems, managers deal with having to staff their department for every day of the week. They must not only try to make sure that every spot is covered, but also that everyone has no more than 40 hours in one week unless they are willing to pay overtime hours. When I sat down with my practicum mentor for a small questioning section, I asked her to tell me what she believes our department specifically needs help on. My mentor stated "In our Radiology department, like most businesses, we struggle to do more work with less staff. We continually have the need to train employees in multiple modalities which add to our staffing numbers, but will give us a more flexible staff in the long run. What does help during this training period is
The foundation of the health care industry is dependent on adequate staffing and comprehensive skillsets to carryout health care services. According to the World Health Organization, “The world will be short of 12.9 million health-care workers by 2035; today, that figure stands at 7.2 million” (para. 1). These shortage trends create gaps in the health care delivery processes and can lead to devastating consequences.