Community South Medical Center Case Study

Register to read the introduction… “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 centers wanting that skill of our winning ways or a current staff member resigns to start their own practice. An example is you hire a brand new nurse in our prestigious neonatal center. After several years of working at a top notch duty section, they attain all the skills and knowledge that they become one of the best nurses in that section. Another medical facility in another state hears about the stellar nurse and calls to offer them more money for their skill sets at their medical center. Another example of a threat that could happen is that some employees could become lazy at their duties because they know that there are others that make up for their slack. This could result in a drop in moral because of the worthless employee cause unnecessary stress for the work …show more content…
I say this because I find it unusual for a 12% drop in our overall payments from Medicaid; especially when there is a growing number of an older population for Community South Medical Center. I believe that the strategic mission and plan needs to be a growth in the residential care, independent living, in-home nursing, hospice, advanced cardiac services, pulmonary services, and a neurosurgery center. I believe that it needs a growth so we can show the public that we have the services that the local population needs for their growing age and needs. Before we grow our services we first must understand why there has been a decrease in Medicaid payments and curtail our strategies to fit our major population of the elderly. Maybe they are finding their care elsewhere? If so we need to find out why and recruit them back to our …show more content…
As of right now Community South Medical Center’s reimbursement source is: 25% Medicaid (up 20%); 35% Medicare (down 12 %); 25% employer sponsored health insurance (unchanged), 8% managed care (down 20 percent), 4% private pay (unchanged) and 4% no-pay (up 25%). Managed care and Medicare were the two percentile drops that affected the medical center. It shows that there is a up rise in the elderly and we are seeing more of them which is why we need to prepare for that population. The center should also look into if the population of Medicare users is down or if we are just seeing more elderly; if there is a less population of Medicare users we need to look into what needs to be done to get that population