MHC Case Study. Read the “Strategic Planning at Multistate Health Corporation” case on pages 51-57 and answer the case questions on pages 56-57…
Descriptive statistics was performed. A t-test was used to compare means of HICS performance between hospitals with respect to their affiliation, size and training courses. A Univariate Analysis of Variance was used to evaluate the effect of independent variables on HICS performance.…
The students attending to the HCS 405 need to understand the significance of the healthcare industry. The employees of the company strive hard every day to fulfill the mission of the company by providing millions of families, seniors, and children of the country with access to good quality healthcare products and services.…
Since the healthcare industry is moving towards a more value-based environment, hospitals will need to produce major system shift to implement population health. To make population health be more efficiently, population health management aligns the mission with services that maintains a…
University Health Care System did not do a thorough investigation of the impacts that the CPOE process would have had on the current system. For this reason, they took the step to begin the process without having had its basics. They may have had assumed that the common advantages of using a computerized system would obviously work to their own advantage. They failed to realize that the user understands and experience with using the new system would have a significant impact on the efficiency of the system. The staff had not been well educated on how to use the system and hence had remarkably little experience on how to make it work out for them. They had the right idea, but just did not do it like it is supposed to be done.…
These strategies are most advantageous for the community hospital. Not just that they create capability to withstand the competitive advantage and today dynamic, but they fit outperformance for several reasons and some are:…
• There are 3 reasons that hospitals merged or consolidated and they are: drawing on the strengths of the other facility, seek help with struggling finances, and the gain of a demographic advantage that makes it more convenient for patients to travel to (healthcarefinancenews.com, 2013). This would impact the hospital by helping those hospitals struggling to make it financially (healthcarefinancenews.com, 2013). Capital needs and technology needs are assisted with merging into a bigger system (healthcarefinancenews.com, 2013). This also allows for a rise in accountable care organizations amongst merging…
Medical facilities are forced into a position of working together for the sake of the patient. Nursing homes, doctor’s offices, rehabilitation centers, hospitals, and hospice centers all must communicate with each other in order to provide the best care possible. Due to advances in technology, these individual entities can communicate easier with each other than ever before. Email communications, video/telephone communications make acquiring important information less time consuming and exceptionally easy for anyone involved. These new technologies also…
The bottom line is that HCAHPS allow for hospitals to be, essentially, graded on their performance by their main customer, the patient. The resultant score will determine the amount of incentive payments received by or penalties assessed to a hospital by Medicare and Medicaid. This pay for performance program is called Value Based Purchasing (VBP) which was created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to “encourage desirable changes” (Dempsey et al., 2014, p. 142) in hospital facilities. According to Dempsey et al (2014), “patients’ perception of care will play a significant role in determining VBP scores and incentive payments” (p.…
The organization that I work for, Kaiser Permanente in the Northern California region, has several different hospitals on one region. Although these hospitals have the same mission and goals, I have seen that what works best in one facility does not work necessarily work in another. There are two hospitals that are about 30 minutes apart, however, one hospital constantly has a higher patient census, has a very different patient demographic, and one hospital is a level two trauma center, while the other is a level three. The contingency theory is applied to these different hospitals and takes into account all different aspects to ensure that each facility operates as best it can. One hospital needs more staffing than the other since there is a higher patient census while the other has to have less staff, but who have higher training since they are a facility that cares for higher acuity patients.…
A blend of socio-economic, technological and political factors has brought pressure to bear on healthcare providers to put measures in place that will promote efficient and quality healthcare delivery both at the federal and state levels. The purpose of this…
Some of the potential problems with quality of care and information systems implementation are increased cost that may take time to level itself out, having systems from different vendors that do not communicate with each other and thus not fostering interoperability or ease of care. As with all things there are risk involve but to reduce or completely eliminate risk we have to explore all possible ways to mitigate those factors that would possibly be more harmful than helpful with the implementation of…
The other issue is low patient satisfaction scores. This was evident when analyzing the survey by the “U.S. Department of Health & Human Services” (2011), when patients were asked if they would give GCMC a 9/10 rating 60% wrote yes but compared to the state average of 63% and national average of 67% GCMC is below average. Another question that was asked is if you as the patient would report “yes” that you would defiantly recommend this hospital; the results were 64% for GCMC, 67% for the state, and 69% nationally. In both questions GCMC is below state and national averages. Leaders within in the organization are constantly striving for better HCAHP scores especially in these economic times because Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement falls solely on these…
Health care organizations will have similarities and differences concerning finances, depending on the environment of the facility. The three types of health care environments are for-profit, nonprofit, and governmental organizations. Health South Rehabilitation Center is a for-profit facility specializing in rehabilitation. Cabell Huntington Hospital is a nonprofit organization providing different types of services through inpatient and outpatient care. The Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services is a government program providing health insurance to eligible individuals or families. The health care facilities will have similarities and differences within the financial structure. The person making financial decisions will be different in each environment. Policies are unique to each financial environment and each facility will have financial management practices which are prevalent in the financial environment. Ensuring health care facilities have an effective financial management practice is more difficult than in other industries.…
2. We need a hc system that allows for collaboration between drs, if a patient as several health issues…