This course met the DNP Essential II: Organizational and Systems Leadership for Quality Improvement and Systems Thinking. In this course, the following were discussed: principles of business, finance, economics, and health policy to develop and implement effective plans for practice-level and/or system-wide practice initiatives that will improve the quality of care delivery, develop and/or monitor budgets for practice initiatives, analyze the cost-effectiveness of practice initiatives accounting for risk and improvement of health care outcomes, demonstrate sensitivity to diverse organizational cultures and populations, including patients and providers and develop and/or evaluate effective strategies for managing the ethical dilemmas inherent…
In this video, Bon Berwick, President of Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement talks about the changes and the importance of leadership. In the last 25 years, the roles of leaderships have changed and expanded. Leadership is the main point of improvements. To improve healthcare, leaders can set in place the contact, support, encouragement, and vision that allows systems to improve. When the board goes to sleep or executive goes to sleep, the system goes to sleep as well. Board training, fellowship programs, and leadership development have been important in efforts to have a turnaround in the system and its leadership.…
How does the leadership and governance of a health care organization influence the development and implementation of risk-management and quality-management policies?…
For this assignment the class was instructed to describe the different forms of competition that take place among various types of health care organizations, evaluate the benefits and pitfalls of competition in health care and suggest alternatives if competition was not the primary driver of operations in the U.S. health care system, explain the elements of successful competition and the use of competitive intelligence, describe the influence competition has on the services offered by health care organizations and the choices patients have.…
Over time, the development of several partnerships between hospitals and the physicians that work there is considered an integrated physician model. The types of places this model could be seen are acute care hospitals, nursing homes, employed physicians for primary care and independent medical groups to name a few (Harrison, 2016). The goal behind the integrated physician model is for an agreement between both the hospital and the physician that will benefit the health care system as whole. There is a model that suggests hospitals work under an agreement with physicians that will market a successful network. In this case, physicians are in a shared partnership with the hospital. Another option is physicians working for the hospital, allowing…
Consequently, the community hospital needs assessment and formulation of new strategic management to keep up with the health care expansion strategies, including directional,…
How does the leadership and governance of a health care organization influence the development and implementation of risk-management and quality-management policies?…
The present memo describes the current state and design of a healthcare organization for providing strategic inputs to improve organization performance in treatment of patients and operational efficiency of medical process.…
Management needs to have a plan or purpose in motion and gather the necessary information which will make the health care organization successful. Controlling is when the healthcare organization is adhering to the plans that are developed by management. Organizing and directing a plan which the health care organization needs to follow and maintain certain steps, resources and stayed focused on the end result, which is success. The proper decision making choices are through education. The financial team is accountable for making sure the appropriate reports are up-to-date, and they are accountable for reporting the funds with principles set forth by the code of ethics and mission statements of the health care organization. Every organization must be willing to release the financial reports which are deemed to be correct. If a health care organization provides incorrect information, this can be immoral and cause financial difficulties to the…
The world we live in is very challenging, filled with opportunities, uncertainties, and obstacles. In health care environment everyone needs to adopt rapidly and respond attentively to all challenges he or she may encounter. In every health care organization it consists of health care managers with a variety of titles they possess, such as administrator, supervisor and more; but all managers share common traits and goals.…
Integration of health care services provides consistency along the continuum of care. This ensures the elimination of unnecessary tests and procedures, improves communication between medical providers and provides the patient with a comprehensive plan and overview of treatment. Communication between physicians and hospitals and working together for patient care keeps all health care providers informed and cooperating for the best patient…
Currently, Western Medicine in the United States is heavily evidenced based. The therapies and surgeries are validated by clinical trials, are proven to be effective in treating a given disease, and have often been successful at eradicating certain illness and diseases. With modern medicine, the common end goal is to cure. The healing hospital paradigm takes a different approach to medicine. It focus is on healing, on the recovery and wellness of the patient. It is a holistic approach to medicine; which encompasses the whole person: mind, body and spirit. There are there major elements of healing hospitals: a healing physical environment,…
Darr, Kurt, Longest, Beaufort B. Jr., Rakich, Jonathan S. (4th Ed.). (2000). Managing Health Services Organizations and Systems. Baltimore: Health Professional Press.…
Examine how the strategic plan affects the health care organizations assets, resources, competencies, and financial decisions. Discuss how health care managers ?think strategically,? and how health care providers influence a health care organizations competitive Examine the strategies used by health care organizations to analyze external influences that shape the ongoing development of strategic plans. Discuss how technology is implemented to assess the health care market and improve positive health care outcomes for a diverse Discuss how a health care organization develops their mission statement, goals, vision, and values statement and how they affect the organizations strategic direction. Discuss the purpose of how the organization determines if/when changes are needed as they grow. How is that growth fostered regarding revenues and profitsExplore how health care organizations/managers monitor the strategic plan and how changes are made regarding financial performance drivers, clinical quality factors, and marketing both internally and externally Examine strategic financial management concepts, the effects of supply and demand on the health care organization and how managers use contemporary financing practices in conjunction with the strategic plan. Examine and compare strategic plans of various types of organizations as a means to understand the need for change and diversity…
R., W. K., & Griffith, J. R. (2010). The Physician Organization. In W. K. R., & J. R. Griffith, The Well-Managed Healthcare Organization (pp. 299-301). Chicago: Health Administration Press.…