ABOUT CLEVELAND CLINIC Cleveland Clinic is a not-for-profit, multispecialty academic medical center that includes 11 hospitals, 16 family health centers, and five ambulatory surgery centers. The organization has facilities in Ohio, Florida, Nevada, Canada, and Abu Dhabi, with a combined total of 3,400 beds and 40,000 employees. Cleveland Clinic is consistently ranked among the top tour hospitals in U.S. News 8. World Report rankings. AT A GLANCE Cleveland Clinic's enterprise performance management program offers proof that comparisons of actual performance against strategic objectives can enable healthcare organization to achieve rapid organizational change.
Leaders seem to instill a sense of significance in the workforce by giving employees the power of their vision and values (Kilbort, 2004). The leader is important in forging links—creating connections—among an organization’s members to promote high levels of performance and quality outcomes (Sullivan, Decker, 2009). Management is going by protocols, procedures, and systems. A manager, in contrast, is an individual employed by an organization who is responsible and accountable for efficiently accomplishing the goals of the organization (2009). Working as a leader in the healthcare profession requires a large amount of responsibility, which takes much work, and is not effortless.
Legal and ethical responsibility of the care provided is also increasingly shared by the nurses. Nurses are the leaders of care team group. It is very important to train skilled and efficient nurses for the society. The more the education level goes up, patients will get better outcome. Comparison Both baccalaureate degree and associate degree in nursing play an important role in patient care but in two different ways.
Healthcare Reform: Cost, Quality and Access Healthcare reforms are polices set by the government that describes future ideas and changes based on economic and social advances to create an improved healthcare system that benefits the society as a whole. The topics of cost, quality, and access have become a concern to many as the issues continue to grow. In the United States these issues are the top priorities that have been discussed for decades to enhance the system already in place. The central idea of the first article focused on universal access of primary care. It states that because the costs of healthcare continue to increase so does the number of uninsured which in return increases the costs even more.
Zilack Corporation Strategic Alignment Worksheet Accounting and Finance Name: Tabitha Cook Corporate Goal: Double Company Sales | Human Resources | Accounting and Finance | Checklist | | * Ensure staffing requirements are met. * Retain existing staff. * Hire and train new staff. * Raise Strength of Workplace scores to a minimum of 4.0 in all departments. * Plan, organize, lead, and direct the human resources of the company to meet the goal of growing the business by 100%.
Executive Summary – Middlefield is facing the high employee turnover, workforce shortage - especially of Nurses and low employee morale problems. Some of the findings about the causes of the problems are opening of the new hospital with better facilities and advanced technology for patient treatment and care, unavailability of quality instructors for nursing degree programs at universities. To tackle the problems, efficient use of existing Nursing workforce should be done in the short term. Whereas aggressive retention policies and increase in production of quality Nursing workforce should be long term strategies. Also Middlefield must ensure to increase the employee morale.
(Sultz & Young pg. 228). All of these factors have contributed to the increased costs of the health care system put on the public and has also influenced some of the barriers that have led to the access of healthcare I spoke about above. The AMA (American Medical Association) also attributes the high cost of health care from the rising toll of preventable illness & inefficiencies in the health care system. They have identified four strategies to contain health care cost, they consist of reduce the burden of preventable disease, make health care delivery more efficient, reduce nonclinical health system costs that do not contribute to patient care and promote value-based decision making at all levels.(http://www.ama-assn.org).
Financial Environments: A Comparative Summary Dana Lawson HCS/577 October 7, 2013 Professor D. Chen Financial Environments: A Comparative Summary The health care industry accounts for a significant portion of the nation’s gross domestic product and expenditures. The influence of this industry on the nation’s budget steadily increases every year along with pressures from federal and state agencies to control rising costs. Financial management lays the foundation for sound operations at health care organizations, which then equips leaders and managers with the knowledge needed to improve patient care initiatives. Also, understanding the financial environments of the various health care entities will help leaders and managers to use resources more effectively to guide their respective organizations into financial stability. This paper will compare the financial environments of three entities, describe the policies unique to each type of financial environment, discuss common financial management practices, and explain the importance of effective financial management in health care.
The society’s fight for a better world for people will all types of dementia takes a wide range of forms. The charity through their network of local services, they touch the lives of over 30,000 people every week, providing practical services and support for people with dementia and their careers. Alzheimer’s society staff and volunteers provide both local information and over 2,000 services across England, Wales and Northern Ireland to people who affected by dementia in their communities. The local services include day care and home care for people with dementia, as well as support and befriending services to help their partners and families to cope with the demands of caring. The society provides reliable and up to date information to help you with every aspect of living with dementia.
This study will examine trends among small and midsized company wellness programs, and how program effectiveness is determined. 400 human resource professionals with decision-making roles of small to mid-sized organizations, who have wellness programs already in place, will be asked to complete a 30 item survey that was developed for this study. Using a retrospective analysis of subject data over a 3 yr. period, summary measures of program characteristics were calculated and charted as simple averages. Chapter 1 Introduction Background Every year, studies indicate the growing health crises America faces. Common health issues that Americans live with are: diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and depression, and these are the same health issues that Americans take to work on a weekly basis.