Question

IN 800 word counts please discuss the following 4 question in your own words if using internet source please cite in your answer and please add the reference

Part 2: Identify a nonprofit health care organization and a for-profit health care organization of your choosing . Answer the following:

• Summarize the types of services provided, clientele served, and provider groups involved.

• Compare and contrast the strengths and weaknesses of each organization from patient, provider, administrator, and third-party payer perspectives.

• Provide at least 2 suggestions for each organization to minimize the identified weaknesses.

• Summarize which organization you would rather be part of, using rationale.

Answer 1

Nonprofit Healthcare Organization

The American Red Cross

The organization exists to offer compassionate care to the individuals in need. The organization works through a network of employees, volunteers, and donors. The network aims at sharing a mission of relieving and preventing suffering across the world. The key services areas for the American Red Cross disaster relief, lifesaving blood, safety and health services, international services as well as supporting the families of the American militaries. In the area of disaster relief, the organization responds to home fires, hurricanes, and earthquakes. In such situations, the organization provides mental and health services, food, and shelter so as to help the entire community and the affected families to stand again. The organization works with other organizations and agencies that offer services to the victims of disasters. In the area of lifesaving blood, the organization supplies blood as well as the blood products to areas where victims require blood donation (Dodd, Notari & Stramer, 2002, p. 970). The organization acts as the largest humanitarian network in the world in terms of international services. It helps in building communities that are safer, teaching the war rules as well as responding to disasters. Additionally, the organization assists the members of the military, families and veterans to respond and to cope with the challenges in the military services. The organization provides training, support to the veterans and warriors that are wounded during the war as well as emergency communications between the veterans and their families. The organization also works as the largest safety and health courses provider in the United States. Some the courses that are offered by the American Red Cross organization include lifeguard training, first aid, and CPR. Participants on the training programs include babysitters, educators, and responders (Briones, Kuch, Liu & Jin, 2011, p. 40).

For Profit Healthcare Organization

The Health Management Associates

The organization operates health care facilities and hospitals in the Southern part of the United States. The organization provides capital, processes, subject matter expertise and people physicians and hospitals practices according to governing requirements or individual needs. It also provides the provider groups and hospitals with the investment capital so as to renew the hospital facilities, recruit physicians and to promote the application of standardized practices. The groups involved include the Medicaid directors for the state, budget officers, the mental health commissioners, the management executives, clinicians, physicians and policy advisors (Fooks et.al, 2013, p. 299).

The Strengths and the weaknesses of the American Red Cross

The strengths of the organization include its easily recognition, its ability to offer the community values, the fact that it acts as the world largest steward of blood, its partnership with FEMA, Its outstanding position for having a charter that was issued by the government for more than one hundred years, its ability to offer liable aid, respect as well as trust. Its weakness include the mismanagement of the distributed funds by the local authority, being too bureaucratic, a very large board of directors thus managing is ineffective, inadequate funds for managing the infrastructures of the organization, failure to meet the needs of the victims, inability to respond effectively, efficiently and quickly to the unexpected disaster and fines due to the misconduct thus impacting finance on the organization.

The Strengths and the Weaknesses of the Health Management Associates

The strength of the health management associates includes the skilled workforce and the existing sales and distribution network. However, its weaknesses include tax structure, productivity, future profitability, investment in development and research as well as the possibility of the high tax on loans.

Suggestions to Minimize the Weaknesses

The American Red Cross can minimize the identified weaknesses by executing an action plan to improve its business and operational capabilities, by enacting internal controls that are more vigorous so as to protect the organization against abuse wastage and frauds as well as creating a refreshed and renewed focus on building partnership and serving the community. On the other hand, the Health Management Associates can improve its identified weaknesses by revising its tax structure and reviewing their tax on loans so as to lower them to a reasonable extent.

I would prefer to work with the American Red Cross organization. The benefits of this organization include vision, dental, medical and other insurance, paid disability and life insurance, paid holidays and time off, savings plan, computer benefits as well as an employee assistance program (Grill, 2014, p. 169).

Reference:

Briones, R. L., Kuch, B., Liu, B. F., & Jin, Y. (2011). Keeping up with the digital age: How the American Red Cross uses social media to build relationships. Public relations review, 37(1), 37-43.

Dodd, R. Y., Notari, E. 4., & Stramer, S. L. (2002). Current prevalence and incidence of infectious disease markers and estimated window?period risk in the American Red Cross blood donor population. Transfusion, 42(8), 975-979.

Fooks, G., Gilmore, A., Collin, J., Holden, C., & Lee, K. (2013). The limits of corporate social responsibility: techniques of neutralization, stakeholder management and political CSR. Journal of Business Ethics, 112(2), 283-299.

Gill, R. (2014). Marian Moser Jones, The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal. Social History of Medicine, 27(1), 168-169.

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