• Stressing tangible cues: providing customers invoice; offering television and video while customers are waiting; providing coloring books to keep children happy. • Using personal information source: MinuteClinic hires professional staffs, such as the nurse practitioners and physician assistants who specialize in family health care, these professional staffs make the customers feel reliable. • Creating a strong organizational image: manage the evidence: 1. MinuteClinic solved the problem happened in Minnesota in 2007, which was the vaccine shortage because of the flu, by using the hub-and-spoke approach for better inventory control. This approach helped every adults and Children got vaccinated in a very short time.…
When reviewing the Middleboro Physician Care Services case we learn that it is a for-profit corporation that was founded in 2008 and offers non-emergent care services within two locations. One of them at the Alpha center outside of the city limits of Middleboro and the other is at the Beta center in Jasper. Both of these locations offer ambulatory medical care services that are provided on a walk in basis. These centers do not offer any emergency services, and if a patient were to arrive that needed emergency services and ambulance will be called to transport the patient to the nearest emergency department. Physician Care Services specializes in providing services to the public that are convenient.…
1. Identify what type of hospital you have selected and discuss why this is important in relation to their market (patients, community, competition, and government agencies). Opened in 1979, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital operates as part of Adventist Healthcare delivery system that includes hospitals, home health agencies and other health-care services. Adventist HealthCare has its headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. It operates as a faith based, not for profit hospital.…
-Focus on the continuum of care, there is a big change occurring in healthcare and that is with the shift from fee-for-service to value based reimbursement payment and that is why the continuum of care is important as “the initial admission, how services are provided within that admission to create the most efficient process for a quick yet appropriate discharge, a discharge to the appropriate post-acute setting and follow-ups with that discharge” (Herman, 2012). this will ensure that the agency is generating and losing revenue. -Take into consideration other methods of treating opportunities. -Increasing the organization's presence within the community as well as of a difference that donations and gifts make that allow Hillsboro to provide…
The United States is the leading health care spender in the world. It has the highest proportion of specialist physicians and world-renowned surgeons yet it falls short in quality of care. This becomes a problem when an increasing number of patients report long wait times, late test results, and medication errors. Americans also describe their interactions with primary physicians as short, meaningless and confusing including chronic disease patients who feel as if they are treated far worse than healthy patients (Burns, Dyer & Bailit, 2010). There are many reasons for lack of quality care, ranging from low adoption rates of electronic medical records to the splintered United States care system.…
Within the growing health care system, the challenges that many provider networks are faced with are to incorporate services for which that many patients would be able to utilize within their facility that would give them a one stop shopping experience. Today, throughout this health care system many organizations are trying to keep up with the latest needs of patients…
With the introduction of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) there have been many recommendations to improve the health care of all Americans. These recommendations are designed to expand coverage, hold insurance firms accountable, decrease the cost of health care, offer more choices, and enrich quality of care. While these recommendations are aimed at patients, nurses will inevitably be affected in the way they give care. The ACA has proposed three models of care that are designed to reduce costs and provide a value-based health care system. These models are the Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), the Medical/Health Homes, and the Nurse-Managed Health Clinics (NMHCs).…
To do this it would require educating the staff and change how care is provided while enhancing their skill set (Sollecito & Johnson, 2013).This will allow organizations to better manage cost, provide quality services, improve patient outcomes, education, and decision-making by patients (Sollecito & Johnson, 2013). One of the challenges with this model is the lack of incentives for providers. With hard work there is no reward? All healthcare providers continually enhance their skill set to better serve the customer base, which is the patient. However, with redesign requires time, money, and realistic expectations.…
Healthcare providers are being urged to alter their healthcare practices to adapt to the changing landscape of healthcare delivery. The passing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has motivated healthcare administrators and providers to start to alter the method in which services are provided and have outlined new incentives to improve quality. The ACA also promotes innovation in improving quality and delivery of healthcare services while remaining cost effective. Healthcare organizations and providers will need to be innovative to meet the new requirements and incentives under the ACA with the aim of continuing to be successful.…
(September, 2017). Hospital Value-Based Purchasing. https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNProducts/downloads/Hospital_VBPurchasing_Fact_Sheet_ICN907664.pdf Institute of Medicine (2010). The future of nursing: Leading change, advancing health. Retrieved from www.nationalacademies.org Lima, J. C., Intrator, O., Karuza, J., Wetle, T., Mor, V., & Katz, P. (2012).…
This learned strategy will then create competitive advantage and bring long term value to the healthcare organization. As challenges increase today due to high population demand with new chronic disease I realized the importance on creating modernized tools to differentiate from others in order to stay in business. Create a culture of…
Values of the organization along with its mission and beliefs are also key to stakeholder and business success. Indicators such as quality access, innovation and prevention are all prime factors for a health care business to be successful (Wicks & Keevil, 2014). With this change in business sense, viewing health care as a basic right where medicine is not bought and sold like previous pay for service models, but rather a mutual understanding where stakeholders involved understand it is not just what is due to them, but also what their responsibilities are to other stakeholders as well (Wicks & Keevil,…
With everyone having health care coverage and the ability to choose where to go for health care needs, facilities will be competing to gain the trust and respect of the public to be the most often chosen health care provider. An organization that is dedicated to putting patients and their needs first, offers the most current and precise care, focuses on prevention, has strong leadership, and is cost-effective will stand out. A facility that is managing employees in a productive manner and having happy, skilled, and proficient caregivers who provide safe, quality care is a must for achieving the best clinical outcomes. Additionally, being focused, setting achievable goals, and meeting goals is crucial for health care providers to be successful. It helps keep employees engaged, focused on the mission and values of the organization, and contributes to advancing health care as a…
There are few industries in this country where technology is changing as rapidly as in the health care sector. The health care industry focuses on improvement and works to make care more efficient and effective. This constant improvement cycle results in new and updated processes along with new medications, new care guidelines, new equipment, and new technology just to name a few. These new technologies are complex and expensive to invest in therefore, leaders must be ready to fully evaluate new technology to ensure decisions are made in the best interest of the hospital. Hospital leaders should look beyond the budget towards an opportunity cost, when making decisions regarding new technology.…
HCM is committed to providing Remarkable Care for our patients, identified Remarkable Quality as a Strategic Advantage, and has defined Remarkable as national top 10% performance (Hill). If top decile data are not available, HCM uses the best available comparative data or internal trends to demonstrate performance (Hill). HCM is first and foremost a clinical enterprise serving as The Community’s hospital (Hill). The majority of their key health care outcomes compared at the national level perform at or near the top decile (Hill). The CMS Value Based Purchasing (VBP) program rewards quality of care through payment incentives (Hill).…