Edgewood Lake Hospital (ELH) which opened in 1945, is a 30-bed, independent, not-for-profit hospital located in rural northern California. It provides inpatient and outpatient services to the close-knit community that resides within the forested and lakeside town the facility is nestled in. Although it is known for its great track record for quality and is held in high regard by the surrounding community, it has steadily experienced financial losses from 2006 through 2009. These losses can be attributed to factors both internal and external to the facility itself.…
Sac-Osage Hospital is one of the many organizations in the health care industry that experienced similar weaknesses as Jackson Memorial. Sac-Osage Hospital encountered numerous problems that may have led to their financial instability. Although other factors such as combination of changing demographics, medical practices, management decisions and federal policies were some of the obstacles that led to Sac-Osage Hospital’s financial trouble; however, lack of internal control played a major role in the hospital’s financial struggles. Sac-Osage Hospital had an estimate loss of $1.5 million to $2 million in failure to filing insurance claims and account collection (The Times-Picayune, 2015). Jackson Memorial also struggled in the area of internal control. Furthermore, despite of a doctor’s effort to purchase the hospital to keep it open and running, it was unfortunately closed down (The Times-Picayune, 2015).…
RRMC, like many other healthcare organizations has some internal and external strengths and weaknesses. Due to the large volume of hospitals located within driving distance of Etowah County, there is a significant threat of substitutes in the market, in particularly when it comes to individuals needed emergency, as well as, non-emergency care. However, RRMC’s revamping of its Emergency and Cardiac Care departments was a significant strength because now it was able to provide state of the art care to patients. RRMC possessed another impactful strength as it was rated number 1 in the state of Alabama for cardiovascular surgery and recognized for orthopedics and stroke programs by HealthGrades.com (Richards & Slovensky, 2004). One of RRMC’s…
"The systems are overloaded.They are just massively overloaded so this just gives us more opportunity to get our patients in more quickly," says the chief of Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine of Guthrie Hospital, Theodore Them. Doctor Them says the partnership between Guthrie and Trinity is that Guthrie will manage the medicine and Trinity will manage the rehab and counseling services.…
Hammond General Hospital is a 334 bed general hospital located in a Mid-western town of 45000 and serves a countrywide population of approximately 140,000. Recently the board of directors at Hammond awarder the management contract of the Food Service Department to an outside company, Master Host Company. Master Host appointed Dave Smith as director of food service. It must be noted that this is the first time in the hospitals history that someone outside the hospital has been appointed as director of a department.…
• 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…
Hilltop Memorial Hospital (HMH) is respecting Long’s privacy by keeping the current position of not speaking about Long’s medical history of his mental health disorder. Depending on the state in which this occurs, the state and federal laws of privacy maybe different. In this case, “under HIPAA, the privacy rule adopted by HHS does not supersede or preempt state laws that provide a higher level of protection for the privacy of healthcare information” (Harris, 2014, p. 113). The general rule for the federal privacy rule is to protect patient health information “that identifies an individual or could be used to identify an individual” but disclosure of information is allowed in certain situations.…
Two unique corporate cultures, Beth Israel Hospital and Deaconess Hospital merged in 1996 to become Beth Israel Deaconess (BID). To compete with Partners, BID and a few other hospitals combined forces and formed Care Group Systems (CGS). Lacking leadership commitment, BID was in chaos and consistently posted operating losses in millions of dollars per year. Additionally, although advised on numerous occasions, BID was inept in implementing restructuring plans and consequently had excessive employee turnover, which resulted in poor patient care.…
The Ronald Regan UCLA Medical Center, Located in Los Angeles, CA has been recognized as one of the top five American hospitals in the country and the best hospital in the western United States for the 23rd consecutive year, and number three in the Top 20 out of the Top 100 Hospitals. (U.S.News and World Report, 2013) Founded in 1955, UCLA Medical Center became Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in 2008, reopening in a new 10-story structure that takes hospital design into uncharted waters. The latest medical advances are provided in a friendly environment that is bursting with light and open spaces to heighten a sense of wellness and endorse healing. (Ronald Regan UCLA Medical Center,…
In this chapter, a SWOT analysis is conducted of Jackson Memorial Hospital. The SWOT analysis will outline Jackson’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threat. These areas are analyzed to determine what need to be improved. The opening of this chapter addresses the internal strengths and weaknesses as well as the external opportunities and threats. Within this section, the four management process are analyze including leadership, control, planning, and organizing. In addition, a more detailed control function is discussed to further understand Jackson’s financial problem. In the second section of this chapter, Porter’s Five Forces is analyzed to identify the possible threats and opportunities in the external environments. In addition,…
Bruce Reid, Blake Memorial Hospital’s new CEO, rubbed his eyes and looked again at the 1992 budget worksheet. The more he played with the figures, the more pessimistic he became. Blake Memorial’s financial health was not good; it suffered from rising costs, static revenue, and declining quality of care. When the board hired Reid six months ago, the mandate had been clear: improve the quality of care and set the financial house in order. Reid had less than a week to finalize his $70 million budget for approval by the hospital’s board. As he considered his choices, one issue, the future of six off-site clinics, commanded special attention. Reid’s predecessor had set up the clinics five years earlier to provide primary health care to residents of Marksville’s poorer neighborhoods; they were generally considered a model of community-based care. But while providing a valuable service for the city’s poor, the clinics also diverted funds away from Blake Memorial’s in-house services, many of which were underfunded. As he worked on the budget, Reid’s thoughts…
Baptist Memorial Hospital is an acute care hospital located in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The hospital is licensed for 100 inpatient beds with 88 of those beds on the main campus and 12 beds at an off site surgical center. Baptist Memorial Hospital provides many types of services, including emergency care, orthopedics, neurosurgical, general surgery, interventional cardiology, obstetrics and gynecological, oncological, interventional radiology, and general medial care. The hospital average daily census is 80. The operating room averages 325 cases per month and the emergency room provides care to an average of 2300 patients per month. Baptist Memorial Hospital takes pride in delivering quality patient care and recently was awarded the HealthGrades Outstanding Patient Experience Award for the fourth year in a row (Kait8 News, 2013). To meet the health care demands of the community, the hospital is building a new facility. The integrated health care facility includes a 550,000 square foot building with 181 hospital beds (Hoar Construction Healthcare Project, 2013). The 220,000 square foot clinic building connects floor by floor with the inpatient hospital (Hoar Construction Healthcare Project, 2013). The building project also includes a freestanding cancer center as well as administrative offices and a central energy plant (Hoar Construction Healthcare Project, 2013). Construction began April 2011 and will be completed by December 2013.…
Features of integration in a delivery system comprise of doctor-hospital relations, coordinated care systems, accessible locations, utilization of resources, quality management, and financial strength. A real assessment of how each component integrates will help to determine the necessary approach needed to contain the risk. Those responsible for risk management face challenges such as the large size of the organizations, structural difference between the components, geographical distances, and the difference in…
Ronald G. Spaeth has served on several boards and serves a president and chief executive officer of Highland Park Hospital (Highland Park, Illinois) merged with Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (Evanston, Illinois). Mr. Spaeth is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He earned his bachelor of arts degree from Western Reserve University in Ohio and his master’s in business administration degree from the University of Chicago in Illinois. He was also the recipient of the American College of Healthcare Executive’s 2005 Gold Medal Award, an honor conferred on outstanding healthcare leaders for their contributions to the field.…
After USTH separated from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in September 2004, which created the USTH, Inc., the hospital started to recover from its overwhelming…