Strategic Components of State Healthcare Management Company

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Strategic Components of State Healthcare Management Company

Question descriptionThe State Healthcare Management Company (a fictitious company) has been established to provide coordinated healthcare to state workers.  You are a new manager in this company.  Your supervisor has asked you to review your company’s mission, vision, goals and strategies.  She/he posed the following questions and has asked you to provide a report (5 – 8 pages) answering each question.  Your report should follow APA guidelines and include at least four outside resources.
Given:
The mission of the State Healthcare Management Company is to improve access to cost-effective, quality health care services for state workers.
Our vision for the next three years includes:

  • The public and government agencies are confident that our customers are being treated fairly in the determination of eligibility and benefits.
  • Healthcare providers see us as proactive partners to provide preventative care to our customers.
  • Turnover of key personnel is minimal, with sufficient staff education to insure compliance with new regulations.

Our values are:

  •  Provide prevention and early intervention information to help customers make good health care choices.
  • Negotiate with suppliers, including service providers, to achieve value for customers
  • Assess, evaluate and continuously improve the quality of our work.

Our strategic goals for this year are:

  • Increase the number of state workers covered to 70% of the population of state workers
  • Improve Health Outcomes by linking provider payments to decreasing occurrences of the customer’s disease outbreaks
  • Contain Health Care Costs by asking for specific evidence from physicians when they request payment for customer care
  • Improve the long-term care service delivery system by identifying a baseline for nursing homes.

Questions:

  1. Do you believe our company’s mission, vision and values statements align well?  Why or why not?
  2. I noticed that the vision statement does not address diversity.  How would you change it to include diversity in hiring?
  3. Understanding that the employees must actively work towards the strategic goals established, describe an activity that each of the members of the following teams should work on that are supportive of one of the strategic goals.
    1. Finance
    2. Marketing
    3. Human Resources
  4. Do our company strategic goals relate directly to our vision and values?  Why or why not?
  5. What should be added to the values to address the ethics of the business?

Your supervisor also asked you to use the internet and/or the Argosy online library to research a recent (within the last year) article that describes the current difficulties faced by healthcare companies regarding new or impending government regulations.

  1. Summarize the article you found in 1-2 paragraphs and explain how the concepts presented in the article could affect our company.
  2. Explain how the management of our company, using the mission, vision and/or values to provide guidance, should react to this issue.
  3. Why is it important for healthcare companies to keep current with the competition’s strategies and new regulations?
  4. Should a healthcare company rely solely on competitive research in developing their strategies? Why or why not?  Provide sufficient detail.

Submit the report by Wednesday, February 26, 2014.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria Maximum Points
Compares and explains alignment of mission, vision and values 20
Suggests revision of the vision statement to include mention of diversity in hiring practices. 20
Suggests revision of the vision statement to include mention of diversity in hiring practices. 20
Compares vision and values to strategic plans. 16
Describes what should be added to the values to address ethics. 16
Summarizes article and explains how the concepts presented in the article could affect the company. 16
Explains how the company should react to the issue based on their mission, vision and/or values. 16
Provides a valid reason for using competitive and government research in developing a strategy. 16
Provides an analysis of why relying solely on competitive research can limit a company to just being reactive to change. 16
Style (4 points): Tone, audience, and word choice
Organization (12 points): Introduction, transitions, and conclusion
Usage and Mechanics (12 points): Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure
APA Elements (16 points): In text citations and references, paraphrasing, and appropriate use of quotations and other elements of style		 44
Total: 200

Genetic family history assessment

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Genetic family history assessment

Question descriptionOverview
This assessment requires you to complete a Genetic/Genomic Nursing Assessment using the information found in your text on page 200, Box 8-5. You DO NOT need to create a family tree. Rather, write out your assignment in APA format and address the items from the Nursing Assessment box 8-5.
book link: http://ners.unair.ac.id/materikuliah/ebooksclub.or…
Your paper should include the following information:

      1. Identify three generations of one family (male/female, age, role in the family such as son/daughter, father, mother, grandmother, grandfather). You may use grandparents, parents, and children. Be sure to find a family with children.
      2. Brief health history of each family member (for example what health problems has each member encountered in his/her lifetime). Focus on any/all genetic diseases that may be present or those for which family members may be at risk.
      3. Complete a reproduction history for relevant above identified family members
      4. Describe the ethnic backgrounds of family member
      5. Identify any growth and development variations of each member
      6. State to what extent each family member understands the causes of their health problems
      7. Relate what questions family members may have about potential genetic risks
      8. Describe what nursing intervention strategies the family health nurse should relate to your selected family based on the obtained assessment

References
Minimum of four (4) total references: two (2) references from required course materials and two (2) peer-reviewed references. All references must be no older than five years (unless making a specific point using a seminal piece of information)
Peer-reviewed references include references from professional data bases such as PubMed or CINHAL applicable to population and practice area, along with evidence based clinical practice guidelines. Examples of unacceptable references are Wikipedia, UpToDate, Epocrates, Medscape, WebMD, hospital organizations, insurance recommendations, & secondary clinical databases.
Style
Unless otherwise specified, all the written assignment must follow APA 6th edition formatting, citations and references. Click here to download the Microsoft Word APA 6th edition template. Make sure you cross-reference the APA 6th edition book as well before submitting the assignment.
Number of Pages/Words
Unless otherwise specified all papers should have a minimum of 600 words (approximately 2.5 pages) excluding the title and reference pages.

Strategic Management in Healthcare Organizations, case study help

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Strategic Management in Healthcare Organizations, case study help

Question descriptionProgram Development Case Study
Happy Valley Hospital is a community-based facility with 288 acute care beds, a twelve suite family-oriented birthing center, a forty four bed long-term care inpatient facility, and a fourteen bed inpatient rehabilitation unit. Happy Valley has a major competitor, GH, which has two hundred beds, a small cancer center, and a kidney dialysis unit.
Happy Valley’s director of internal medicine, along with the director of nursing for that department, are considering establishing a new hemodialysis service. GH has a small hemodialysis unit, but they do not have enough beds to properly accommodate the needs of this community.
The Happy Valley medical director has surveyed the six nephrologists with staff privileges at the hospital and has determined that all six agree that there is a need for more hemodialysis beds in the community. Moreover, these nephrologists all have staff privileges at both Happy Valley and GH and would prefer that the new beds be added to the GH unit. GH, however, has no plans to expand their unit for at least the next five years, and presently, new patients are being referred to a dialysis unit in another community thirty minutes south of Happy Valley Hospital. Those patients as well as their families find this alternative site and location to be unacceptable.
Based on your understanding of the above case, express your views on the following:

  • How should the medical director at Happy Valley try to convince patients now being referred to the dialysis unit thirty minutes to the south to switch their care to Happy Valley Hospital?
  • What steps should the Happy Valley medical director take to ensure that patients will get the proper care and facilities at the Happy Valley Hospital hemodialysis unit, when it is established?
  • Is the approach of GH for not having any expansion plans for the next five years for their unit justified, keeping in mind the interest of the community? Why or why not?

Who controls nursing?

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Who controls nursing?

Question description1. who controls nursing? (Consider nursing practice on all levels in your discussion.).I work in ICU. I would like discussion reflect ICU prespective if it applies. This is a discussion post atleast 8 sentences. This is an example of discussion post from another classmate below by ashely poppa
2. Reply to stephanie renoylds post with reflective and respectful questions or arguments or constructive feedback- atleast 5 sentences
Ashley Popa –Nursing is controlled by a variety of people and groups, none of whom control nursing entirely. The public controls nursing by influencing public health issues and by creating different nursing environments such as homeless care, home health, public health clinics, etc. Patients control nursing by creating personal demands for care. Some patients are more or less demanding than others which can control nursing care in addition to the nursing care required by their medical needs. Study participants and researchers for evidence based practice can control nursing care because policies and procedures change based on study results. The nurse controls nursing care because he or she carries out the physical and emotional act of nursing. Doctors and mid-level providers control nursing care by entering orders for the nurse to execute. Management controls nursing care by creating goals for nursing staff such as infection control measures or overtime prevention. Hospital or clinic administration control nursing by creating policies, utilization management, ethics law, etc. that affects day to day nursing. Members of legislature and government agencies affect nursing by passing laws related to healthcare.In summary, there are many many people, groups and other factors that control nursing but none that control nursing as a whole. Nursing it far too comprehensive to be completely controlled by just one person or group.


Stephanie Reynolds
Who controls nursing?-I believe that nursing is controlled by many factors. One of which is the patient! Nursing scores are based solely on patient satisfaction and standards of care are being centered around patient surveys. While I do believe that nurses have a lot of power and influence regarding nursing as well as safe and effective practice, nurses still must battle with patient satisfaction versus standard practice. There are many evidence based practices that nurses follow day to day that are in place strictly to improve satisfaction scores because of what patients want and what will make them happier. For example, hospital bedside nurses are frequently being told how to provide care to patients that will increase the hospitals scores. Administration is so concerned with scores from patient surveys that they tend to forget why we became nurses in the first place. The state board of nursing plays a large role in nursing control. We must adhere to specific rules and nurse practice guidelines that are set by each state board. Nurses can also take better control by joining committees and voicing their opinions on nursing care and advocating for better standards of practice. Nursing is a very broad field and caters to many different job opportunities. It is hard for me to point to one direction when it comes to who controls nursing as there are so many factors in play. For myself, I would say that I am in control. I take care of every patient the same as I would the next one. I advocate for myself, other staff members, as well as my patients and I speak up when I see something that isn’t right or if I feel like it is not working on my unit. Nursing is about teamwork, as I believe that if we work together and ensure excellent nursing care, we will always have the upper hand in controlling our field of practice.