...Cooper Green Hospital and the Community Care Plan LeWanna Harvey Dr. Michelle Rose Health Services Administration Capstone July 21, 2013 Cooper Green Hospital and the Community Care Plan Discuss six unique problems associated with delivering health care to an indigent population. In the United States it has been estimated that at least 48 million Americans are under insured or uninsured. Health care is a luxury indigent population cannot afford. Some families are made to choose shelter over health care and government assistance is not an option (Swayne & Ginter, 2009) When a family member becomes sick, the hospital emergency room becomes a walk-in clinic to treat minor illnesses, the waiting room is usually overcrowded and this results in extensive waiting times to be seen by a health care provider. The changes in the United States heath care system was occurring dramatically and pervasively managed care was altering how providers interacted with patients, funding for care was being restricted and many health care systems were using non-physician providers to cut costs (Swayne & Ginter, 2009) With rapid changes in the US health care system and funding, Cooper Green Hospital was forced to make changes that had a negative impact on the hospital. Cooper Green Hospital was considered one of the safety net providers across the United States and they are to provide medical care to the poor and uninsured (Swayne & Ginter, 2009) Safety net...
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...Cooper Green Hospital and the Community Care Plan Assignment 1 HSA 599 – Health Services Administration Capstone In the United States of America, it is estimated that forty eight million Americans are underinsured or uninsured (Strategic Management in Health care Organizations-2008). In today’s society, health care is a luxury indigent population cannot afford. Many families are made to choose shelter over health care when government assistance is not an option. When a family member becomes sick, the hospital emergency room becomes a walk-in clinic to treatment minor illnesses, the waiting room is usually over crowed, and this resulted in extensive waiting times to be seen by a health care provider. There were unique problems associated with delivering health care to an indigent population. The lack of communication, education, gang violence, vandalism, low enrollment, and marketing, became difficult obstacles to overcome. The rapid changes in US health care system and funding; Cooper Green Hospital was forced to make sufficient changes that had a negative impact on the hospital; the changes include staff lay-offs, taking beds of service, cutting programs, funding, revenue, and lack of resources to invest in capital projects. The quality of care, poor customer service; and long waiting times because factors that pointed to the problems Cooper Green Hospital faced. A positive change was imminent. Patients were dissatisfied by the lack of respect shown or compassion towards...
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...Abstract This report discusses ways the open heart surgery program complies with the hospital’s mission. It will also analyze whether or not CMH, now known as Carolinas Medical Center Northeast (CMC), has sufficient infrastructure and financial resources / leverage necessary to add the program. The competitive situation among other area hospitals that could impact the decision will be described. The change in the service area required for the cardiovascular surgery service will also be explained. Alternative strategies the Board should consider before making a final decision on the possible addition of the open heart program will be examined. Key Words: Cardiovascular, open heart surgery, coronary care Cannon Hospital opened its doors to Concord, NC on July 26, 1937 with forty-six beds, ten bassinets, eight doctors and two patients (Swayne, Duncan & Ginter, 2009). They have come a long way since then. According to Cimino Wilson, they are now known as CMC-North-East, and have handled 12,045 surgical procedures, employed more than 4,700 employees and admitted 22,388 patients in 2011. Since its inception, thanks to the philanthropy of Cannon A. Mills, they have been a contemporary, well-equipped facility. Their mission then and now is “absolute commitment to service and clinical excellence.” Ways the program complies with the hospital’s mission. It was the goal of Cannon A. Mills to provide his employees with the best possible health care (Swayne, Duncan &...
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...Health Care in the United States is very different from the Health Care in other countries, the quality of services rendered are different, the laws are different, and the hospitals are different. Most consumers have limited access to health care, especially in poor countries. The barriers to obtaining health care are increasing. As health care costs rise, its causing more and more people like myself unable to go to the doctor’s due to the lack of insurance. The most difficult hurdle to overcome is the lack of financial resources to pay for medical services. But the bigger problem resides in those bigger countries with lack of access to health care. The uninsured cannot be stereotyped for they include many people who are unemployed, children, people with disability, the elderly, etc. In this paper I will discuss some of the issues associated with delivering health care to an indigent population, the five ways that the community care plan will improve the health status of the community, the five factors that point to the need for change by cooper green hospital, and the five strengths and weaknesses of the community care plan. Discuss six unique problems associated with delivering health care to an indigent population. In recent years, it has estimated that over 48 million Americans are insured or uninsured. Health care is a luxury indigent population cannot afford. Some families are forced to go to free health clinics within their county, and some places that offer low affordable...
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...Abstract This paper will discuss unique problems associated with delivering health care to an indigent population. This paper will further address the ways that the Community Care Plan will improve the health status of the community. It outlines factors that point to the need for change by Cooper Green Hospital. Also the paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Cooper Green Hospital. Lastly, the strengths and weaknesses of the Community Care Plan will be discussed. Dr. Michael saw a vision of wanting to provide easy access to the poor and uninsured of Jefferson County, but after four years of some struggles and positive outcomes it ended for him. Cooper Green Hospital and the Community Care Plan were in conjunction with one in another. They were to serve the community number one and bring in more revenue. Unfortunately the accomplishment was not completed. When trying to provide health care to an indigent population, it takes a lot of strategic planning. One needs to have a plan A, B and C on the books at all times. One problem was having a “safety net providers”, “safety net providers had large Medicaid and indigent care caseloads relative to other providers and were willing to provide services regardless of a person’s ability to pay.” Swayne, Duncan, Ginter, pg. 698. They tried to open a CCP closer to the homes and it was closed down, because of vandalism, gang violence, and low enrollment. Also it looks like they did not do a lot of marketing...
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...INTRODUCTION Kate Cooper began a new position at Green Meadows Hospital. Green Meadows Hospital was a newly constructed facility owned and operated by Southern Hospitals Corporation. Kate Cooper began her career as a Manager of Adult Services for the new facility. Kate had a lot of background experiences that made her job fit for the Manager role. Kate was a registered nurse with a bachelor’s degree in nursing and six years of supervisory experience. Kate was a very self-driven person and was working on obtaining her Master’s degree to further her career. Kate’s supervisor was Alan Jones, an assistant administrator of the hospital. Alan seemed to be a guy that was for her obtaining her Master’s degree so she could improve herself within the organization. Kate obtaining her degree could have implemented new strategies to help improve their organization from day one. Bateman and Snell’s textbook, Management (10th edition) states, “Its learning and growth goals might include bringing in the most efficient production technologies or work processes and training the staff to use them.” It outlines the Strategic map for organizations and how they are set up under: learning and growth goals, internal goals, customer goals, and financial goals. Alan Jones seemed to have missed the potential to help set this up later during the case study. It seemed that they were having several dysfunctions of a team (Lencioni) and I will propose what they need to look at doing to fix this...
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...Running Head: COOPER GREEN HOSPITAL Cooper Green Hospital and the Community Care Plan Strayer University Health Economics April 20, 2012 Dr. Mountasser Kadrie 1. Discuss six (6) unique problems associated with delivering health care to an indigent population. Delivering health care to an indigent population can be problematic with there being more patients needing care than there are providers. "Safety net providers had a large Medicaid and indigent care caseloads relative to other providers" (Swayne, Duncan, & Ginter, 2009, p. 698). Providers that provide care to indigent populations do not receive the compensation for services that they would in an area where individuals had HMO, PPO, or POS type insurance coverage. Providers that care for Medicaid recipients are paid less for services than managed care companies pay. Providers of services for Medicaid recipients are "required to accept the Medicaid reimbursement as payment in full" (Swayne, Duncan, & Ginter, 2009, p. 700). Many individuals in the indigent areas will not seek health care until their symptoms have worsened to the point that seeking professional care is required. "Many poor residents delayed getting necessary medical care because they had no health insurance" (Swayne, Duncan, & Ginter, 2009, p. 702). In a large metropolitan area where there are many choices for health care services, facilities have to compete to provide care and increase revenue within their facility. There were...
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...Cooper Green Hospital and the Community Care Plan 1. Discuss six (6) unique problems associated with delivering health care to an indigent population. 2. Discuss the five (5) ways that the Community Care Plan will improve the health status of the community. 3. Discuss the five (5) factors that point to the need for change by Cooper Green Hospital. 4. Discuss five (5) strengths and five (5) weaknesses of Cooper Green Hospital. 5. Discuss five (5) strengths and five (5) weaknesses of the Community Care Plan. The major problems that plagued the company’s growth were as providing affordable good quality medical services to the indigent population of deficient country, streamlining procedures with polices, managing employees and gauging their performances, declining revenue, decreasing enrollments and under utilization, no upgrading enhancement of technologies, indifferent behavior of some employees towards the patients, inability of the infrastructure to cater to the increasing demands of the out patients section, resulting in long waiting hours and frustrated patients.Another problems faced by the hospital were balancing cost with maximum access to care, managing employee within budget, performance and demand and simplifying procedures and aligning them with policies. The two plans are named as Health first, a traditional fee for service plan and the community care plan , a prepaid membership plan based on family size and income, which would given opportunity...
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...Green Meadows Hospital is newly constructed community hospital owned by Southern Hospitals Corporation. Kate Cooper was very excited when she got a new position at Green Meadows as a Manager of Adult Services. They started hiring people and were getting ready to open the hospital. However, things did not go well as they planned and wanted to. Therefore, Kate had to resign. The biggest problem that I see in this was their unorganized management skills and communications skills. They should have more prepared since they were new hospital and related to people’s lives but from the beginning, it seemed like they did not think that it was a big of deal and just went it the flow. Communications at Green Meadows Hospital is more likely one way communication. It started out with 2 way communication model somehow, but it ended up having just one way communication model. At first, Alan seemed like he understood Kate’s situation and encouraged her with her getting higher education and seemed like he was going to be a strong supporter. However, it didn’t really work out. It was always him giving her too much work when even she told him that she does not think that she can handle all the responsibilities and works due to her duties and school. Also, There were never really clear communication or/and understanding among Doug, Alan, and Kate. 2 way communication model would have fixed their problems. Even though one way communication is a lot easier and faster, using 2 way communication...
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...According to Giger and Davidhizar (2007), diversity has always been represented since the founding of the United States. Even though diversity was prevalent; the demographic profile continues to grow and change (Gordon, 2013). In order provide effective and efficient health services; health care organizations need to develop cultural and linguistic competence (Gordon, 2013). The aim for health care organizations is to achieve cultural competence as evidenced by every patient regardless of race, ethnicity, culture or language receiving the highest-quality care (Betancourt, Green, Carrillo, & Park, 2005). Betancourt, Green, Carillo, and Ananeh-Firempong II (2003) defined a cultural competent health care organization as one that recognizes and integrates the importance of culture, cultural differences, cultural knowledge and services to meet the distinctive needs of the culture. This cultural competence encompasses integration and interaction of beliefs, behaviors, disease prevalence and incidence and treatment outcomes for diverse patient populations (Betancourt et al., 2003). In the case study: Diversity Conflicts in the NICU the manager has identified practices in the NICU that are not representative of a culturally competent organization. While reflecting on the diverse population that her staff comprises of the manager debates changing her hiring practices to avoid the amount of growing conflicts. Gordon (2013) discusses how health care organizations have an obligation...
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...(2001). The world is becoming smaller due to technological advances and migration (Bryan, (2014). Communication and understanding is the first step to providing culturally competent services (Betancourt, Green, & Carrillo, (2002). The goal of culturally competent health care services is to provide quality of care to every patient, regardless of race, gender, religion, ethnicity, cultural background, language or literacy level (Carrasquillo, Orav, Brennan, Burstin, (1999). What are some examples in Lia’s case that demonstrate a lack of cultural competency that affected her medical care? Lia’s doctors have prescribed medication which they thought was designed to help control seizures. But the parents are thinking that Lia is losing her soul and therefore the medication would not help. They opt to go for traditional and religious healing methods. To the Hmong culture, soliciting the help of a Shaman to return the soul back to the child or unite body and spirit is logical. The healthcare system betrayed Lia through their cultural incompetence. For Lia’s parents, western medicine didn’t make sense and created conflicted feelings. Cultural and religious beliefs create conflict between the western philosophy of the doctor’s view and the patient’s or their family’s view (Saha, Arbelaez, Cooper, (2003). Without understanding the history and background of the patient, the doctor is bound to make mistakes in judgement (Bonder, Martin, Miracle, (2001). The biggest problem in this case is that...
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...Hello everyone, you may not know me now but by the time you are done reading this you will have a concept of who I am and where I come from. I usually don’t like to share my life with anyone but this is an exception. LaRita Nicole Curier, born to Theodis Curier and Rita Dawson on August 23, 1981 at 12:01 a.m. This date was special because it’s also the same date of birth as my father. I was born in Birmingham, Alabama at Cooper Green Hospital. I’m the second child of five and had to grow up fast due to having to help with my siblings. I didn’t have much of a choice in the matter but I adapted well to the life I became accustomed to. I attended Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, Glenn Middle School, and Ensley High School where I did not graduate. I received my G.E.D from Virginia College of Birmingham in 2000 because I knew I wanted to further my education and was to smart to be so stupid. I later attended Virginia College for there Pharmacy Technician program which I didn’t complete due to medical circumstances. Being in a large family taught me a lot of independency and nurturing. I can honestly say it made me into the woman I am today. I’m a loner, in spite of all the siblings. I’m not a people person at all but I get along with everybody, how ironic. My attitude is stand offish and very reserved. These are just a few traits that make me who I am. When I was 15 years old my mother decided to leave my younger...
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...O’Connell b Department of Pre-registration, Nursing Faculty of Health Studies, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, Chalfont Campus, Newland Park, Gorelands Lane, Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire HP8 4AD, United Kingdom b Green Lawns, Kilmona Grenagh Co., Cork, Republic of Ireland Accepted 27 March 2006 KEYWORDS Bullying; Violence; NHS; Higher education; Nurse education Summary This article examines briefly the issue of workplace violence and bullying in the hospital environment, but more importantly how the same and different styles of bullying and intra-staff bullying are emerging in nurse education. The content describes the aetiology of violence and bullying and their place in the National Health Service (NHS) including nursing. It explores bullying as the principle form of intimidation in nurse education, the different types and subtle forms of bullying, why individuals become bullies, dealing with and the consequences of bullying. The legislation, guidelines, policies are part of the recommendations for practice. c 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Introduction In modern day society, it could be argued that violence and aggression is a common aspect of daily life. Violence and abuse within the hospital setting occurs throughout the entire health care sector (Zernike and Sharpe, 1998; Wells and Bowers, 2002). Over the years, negative incidents including violence, harassment, and aggression and bullying have been steadily increasing. In...
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...donors to give, they spend more time and personal effort in building relationships with their donors, have refocused on the importance of developing staff, resources, and programs, and are simply looking to do more, not less (Borning, 2010). NPOs have suffered from the downturn in 2008 and 2009 but the fact is even tougher financial times have come since then for many nonprofit organizations, especially larger organizations that rely heavily on government grants and contracts (Kerr, 2010). Fifteen regional NPO agencies were surveyed with open ended questions about the challenges of surviving the weak economy for the last four years. In the research, I used syntactical units because they are small and reliable units used in analyzing (Cooper and Schindler,2011). Syntactical units are words, phrases and sentences....
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