Case Study Of The Plymouth Community

According to the above case study, Plymouth is ethnically diverse community with different groups of population living including African American, Hispanic and Caucasian population. It showed that 40 percent increments in the community population of the Plymouth. Among other population, there seemed declining in the Caucasian population. According to the case study, the Plymouth community is facing declining in the community’s population because of various reasons such as economic issue and lack of employment opportunities. As it was listed that the previous population of the Plymouth community was 15,000 and the recent population is just 8,000. It seemed significant declining in the population of the Plymouth community because 7,000 population …show more content…
With low capacity of hospitals beds and healthcare employees, it will be difficult for management team to manage the overall task of the healthcare system and the patient may not get the quality of care. Since the Greenland hospital has just 100 licensed bed and just 50 healthcare staffs, the hospital may not provide the proper care to an individual at a time. Healthcare employees may face difficulties in providing equal care to all groups of people. If more people from various groups gets sick and have to admit to the hospital, then hospital will have difficulty in accessing the patient to the hospital because of the fewer beds. Moreover, populations from different groups have different diseases, for example African American and Hispanic population have higher prevalent of getting risk of obesity, that could lead to chronic disease. If the hospitals have to admit those people with chronic disease, they need longer time to stay in hospital, but due to limited beds, it could be the problem for people and hospital. So, if the problem occurred, the hospital would face these type of issues which cannot be solved …show more content…
The senior management team at Greenland is experienced and has been in place for over 10 years. This could be a plus point for the hospital with amount of experience they have. As the only healthcare provider in the area, Greenland is committed to providing services to the community, but is concerned with a recent decline in utilization numbers. In order to address these issues, they should be promoting the strong strategies to evaluate how these problem have occurred and what is the root cause of these issues. Furthermore, it is also shown that the population of the African and Hispanic community has been increasing over decades. Such minorities group may alter in terms of disease and health conditions. Therefore, to provide specific cure and more advanced monitoring, hospital staff may be more focused to those groups. Moreover, due to low capacity of hospital beds and fewer staff members, it will be tough for them to treat those groups of people and how quickly they can cure. This could result in longer hours of work for hospital staffs to provide effective