Advocate Christ Medical Center Case Study
Advocate Christ medical Center
Health Planning and Policy Management
EHC 4498
Heather Cooper
2/2/2014
Advocate Christ Medical Center, opened in 1961, it is a teaching hospital that is ranked as a top one hundred facility and is located in Oak Lawn, Illinois. Advocate Christ Medical Center is a seven hundred sixty-four bed medical center (Center, 2014), in 2012 this facility had forty thousand seven hundred and sixty seven admissions. In 2012 alone this hospital performed eleven thousand six hundred and seven inpatient surgeries and nine thousand nine hundred and one outpatient surgeries. Through the course of the year the emergency department saw ninety thousands one hundred and ninety two patients. In addition to taking …show more content…
The President and Chief Executive Officer is James Skogsbergh, this means that the entire facility reports to him. What type of corporate culture does Skogsbergh bring to the facility? At this hospital continued education is vital. Employees are offered multiple ways to advance their education. By doing this they are able to keep up with the advances in health care. At Advocate Christ Medical Center they provide a positive environment so that employees can excel. Faith is something that this facility instills into the day to day activities and incorporates into patient care. A Chaplin is on call twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. They are called any time a patient or staff member wishes to speak to them as well as any time a code or trauma occurs. The Chaplin on duty also is to notify next of kin and take care of protocol at the time of death. Lastly, this facility feels that teamwork is vital in order to accomplish excellent care. This means that everyone is to work as a team, and one man for himself is not tolerated. SWOT analysis: Strengths
Ranked in top 100 hundred hospitals, magnet status, outpatient services, inpatient services, hospice, trauma center, largest private hospital in Illinois, operates the only free standing children’s hospital in the south and southwest Chicago, continuing …show more content…
The ventricular assist device (VAD) is offered to patients in stage four heart failure, as a treatment option. A VAD is a mechanical pump that is used to aid the heart function and blood flow in individuals with a weekend heart (National Heart, 2012). With assistance from this device a patient’s blood is able to flow from a lower chamber of their heart into the rest of the body. Basically, it performs the job of a healthy heart. Currently, patients that are in need of a VAD are either hooked to a large machine or they carry a power source with them. With the third generation pump a patient has no need for the outside power source; everything is implanted inside of
Health Planning and Policy Management
EHC 4498
Heather Cooper
2/2/2014
Advocate Christ Medical Center, opened in 1961, it is a teaching hospital that is ranked as a top one hundred facility and is located in Oak Lawn, Illinois. Advocate Christ Medical Center is a seven hundred sixty-four bed medical center (Center, 2014), in 2012 this facility had forty thousand seven hundred and sixty seven admissions. In 2012 alone this hospital performed eleven thousand six hundred and seven inpatient surgeries and nine thousand nine hundred and one outpatient surgeries. Through the course of the year the emergency department saw ninety thousands one hundred and ninety two patients. In addition to taking …show more content…
The President and Chief Executive Officer is James Skogsbergh, this means that the entire facility reports to him. What type of corporate culture does Skogsbergh bring to the facility? At this hospital continued education is vital. Employees are offered multiple ways to advance their education. By doing this they are able to keep up with the advances in health care. At Advocate Christ Medical Center they provide a positive environment so that employees can excel. Faith is something that this facility instills into the day to day activities and incorporates into patient care. A Chaplin is on call twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. They are called any time a patient or staff member wishes to speak to them as well as any time a code or trauma occurs. The Chaplin on duty also is to notify next of kin and take care of protocol at the time of death. Lastly, this facility feels that teamwork is vital in order to accomplish excellent care. This means that everyone is to work as a team, and one man for himself is not tolerated. SWOT analysis: Strengths
Ranked in top 100 hundred hospitals, magnet status, outpatient services, inpatient services, hospice, trauma center, largest private hospital in Illinois, operates the only free standing children’s hospital in the south and southwest Chicago, continuing …show more content…
The ventricular assist device (VAD) is offered to patients in stage four heart failure, as a treatment option. A VAD is a mechanical pump that is used to aid the heart function and blood flow in individuals with a weekend heart (National Heart, 2012). With assistance from this device a patient’s blood is able to flow from a lower chamber of their heart into the rest of the body. Basically, it performs the job of a healthy heart. Currently, patients that are in need of a VAD are either hooked to a large machine or they carry a power source with them. With the third generation pump a patient has no need for the outside power source; everything is implanted inside of