Healthcare Swot Analysis Paper
1) Principal expertise. One of the strengths of the company is the fact that we have physicians with expertise in the field, in the state, there are only 2 main providers for this type of service. Also, with this we have certain physicians and providers in the practice that perform specialties, for example, supportive care, which includes symptom management for patient, pain management, alternative therapies such as acupuncture and holistic health procedures. These make a patients experience better and provide a better quality of life. Since we have providers that help support this that give the company as a whole strength and growth potential in providing better services and therapy. This also gives for the potential to make more income as
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This has been consistence for employees not taking accountability for their actions and trying to shift job tasks and responsibilities to other departments or staff. This becomes a weakness because time and resources are being used to train instead of furthering work tasks and responsibilities.
2) High costs for chemotherapy and treatments: A weakness in the oncology field is the high costs for purchase and reimbursement of chemotherapy and other treatments. Insurance companies have significantly cut back on the amount they will reimburse for treatments, which in some cases, leaves us not collecting what was paid for the medications. This has become quite the challenge to insure we are being reimbursed enough for the therapies that have been prescribed for our patients by the physicians. …show more content…
This could be helpful with having more employees able to complete daily tasks along with job satisfaction from the employee. This would have to be managed within the scope of the license, depending on the job duties and license requirements. We could also consider moving job tasks to another department who is less productive to give additional time to the employees that have too much work to be able to complete. Cross training not only promotes self-reliance among employees but leads to having more staff to pull from for the company as a whole, the more people who know job tasks the
This has been consistence for employees not taking accountability for their actions and trying to shift job tasks and responsibilities to other departments or staff. This becomes a weakness because time and resources are being used to train instead of furthering work tasks and responsibilities.
2) High costs for chemotherapy and treatments: A weakness in the oncology field is the high costs for purchase and reimbursement of chemotherapy and other treatments. Insurance companies have significantly cut back on the amount they will reimburse for treatments, which in some cases, leaves us not collecting what was paid for the medications. This has become quite the challenge to insure we are being reimbursed enough for the therapies that have been prescribed for our patients by the physicians. …show more content…
This could be helpful with having more employees able to complete daily tasks along with job satisfaction from the employee. This would have to be managed within the scope of the license, depending on the job duties and license requirements. We could also consider moving job tasks to another department who is less productive to give additional time to the employees that have too much work to be able to complete. Cross training not only promotes self-reliance among employees but leads to having more staff to pull from for the company as a whole, the more people who know job tasks the