Organization Selection

The initial step in developing your strategic management plan project is to select a health care organization. For more information on organization options, refer to the course project description. After you have determined an organization you want to use for the project, begin analyzing the following factors that affect your particular type of health care system:

Key socioeconomic factors: the demographics of the patient base, employee base, and physician base. These can include references to the aging population, increasingly ethnically diverse population, and staffing or physician surpluses and shortages.

Legislative factors: anticipated incremental legislative reforms versus large-scale reforms and legislative agendas aimed at reducing costs. Check both federal and state legislative actions.

Policy factors: regulations and policies external to the organization via government agencies and the Joint Council on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

Organizational factors: the overall organizational structure, the emphasis on recruiting and retaining talent, and the emphasis on staff development and competency building.

Service delivery factors: causes of change in care delivery due to the evolving practice of medicine, advances in pharmacology and technology, and the emphasis on cost-effective care.

Technological factors: medical equipment development, research advances, and information technology systems implementation.

Current economic factors: the national and local economies and their effect on planning, reimbursement, and financial stability of the organization.

Write a two-page paper analyzing the factors and their effects on the organization you have selected. Be sure to consider the long-term effects of these factors on the organization. Focus your long-term analysis on five and 10 years from now. You will add to this section as the course progresses.

Resources and citations should be formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting.

Do not plagiarize. Assignments will go through turnitin

Here are possible organizations as per the course project descriptions. Please choose a specific entity. For instance if you are writing about a hospital, choose a specific hospital to focus on. Strategic management for health care organizations involves decision-making processes that allow the organizations to meet their objectives. The success of strategic management decisions is due partly to a strong strategic plan. The course project provides you the opportunity to develop an abbreviated strategic management plan for a health care organization of your choice. To start the process, imagine yourself as the chief executive officer of a health care organization. The organization can be an actual entity or one that you create for this project. Either way, it should reflect your interests and experience. The following is a list of possible health care organizations: Acute care hospital. Ambulatory services (for example, dialysis or physical therapy). Rehabilitation hospital. Nursing home. Home health care. Pharmaceutical firm. Medical device company. Health information service. Government agency. Regulatory body. Blood center. Donor organization. Public health agency. Physician's practice. Ambulatory surgical center. Psychiatric hospital. Managed care organization. Medical staff recruitment firm.