Question

Wk 5 HCS/451

ABC Hospital is a small, privately-owned community hospital. It has been struggling to survive financially, as reimbursement rates have declined and consumers are being drawn to the larger state-of-the-art hospital facilities in urban areas that are perceived to have better quality. ABC Hospital was built in 1960 and has been operating in the same manner for many decades. The hospital meets legal and regulatory requirements but has not kept pace with some of the newer technologies and patient conveniences becoming more prevalent in the health care industry.

Write a 175- to 265-word response to the following:

• What strategies can the organization take to survive, improve its performance, and compete with other hospitals over the next 5 years?
• What are some advantages or disadvantages of these strategies?

Answer 1

In today's world people opt for value based care mmm ore than high charging equipped hospitals .Hence improving outcome will help hospitals to thrive in this competitive era.

These are some essential strategies to achieve better , more effective patient care:

1.Promote more well informed diagnosis:

An acurate and quick diagnosis is an integral part of better patient care.This can be achieved using modern diagnostic methods which reduces downstream cost due to misdiagnosis.

2.Support optimal treatment planning:

Selecting the right approach for each patient is very essential for a sound patient care.The doctors should be able to provide the patient with the correct treatment plan for his condition with complete sucess rate.

3.Take good care of clinicians :

A supportive environment in the hospital will improve the outcome of care from health care providers.So it is important to create a supportive relation between health care providers.

4.Improve outcome through greater transparency:

To ascertain the success of patient care it should be well explained and transparent in front of the patients about there health condition and treatment plans.This will help to develop a bette doctor patient relationship so that the patient can disclose the difficulties faced by him.

5.Ensure continuity of care following discharge:

For effective treatment it is necessary to continue the care even after discharge this can be achieved through giving a clear explanation of his current health status and measures he should follow to improve his health and regular follow up and also the patient should be well aware of medication he should take.

6.Engage and support your patients after discharge:

It is more important in places where people have socioeconomic issues that render him from taking health care.

7.Use connected care to support better outcomes:

This has more value in places where still medically underserved.Make use of IT or mobile communications to get access to more facilities and providing correct care.

Advantages: *These strategies will imcrease the patients opting the hosptial to seek treatment even though there is less modern facilities.

*This will provide the patient with low cost and better treatment methods as it will reduce unnecessary investigations for diagnosis.

Thus following these strategies will benefit both the care seekers and providers.

disadvantages: * Even though hospitals provide quality care but some may opt for better infrastructures and patient convenience while seeking health care.so some sort of care should be given to improve hospital facilities too.

*Quality health care definitely involve more efforts put on by the health workers hence it should be paied more hence expensive.

* Also avoidence of more diagnostic measures and absence of Modern facilities should increases the risk for misdiagnosis.

* Providing quality patient care require increase in the number of healthcare providers.