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A 16 page paper discussing strategy for the National Naval Medical Center (NNMC). It is the primary site of Navy medicine and is one of the largest healthcare systems in the United States. NNMC will be taking on some of the functions of Walter Reed Army Hospital by 2011 and so has opportunity to greatly enhance the quality and efficiency of both the existing organization and the one it will become within three years. Recommendations for change include continuing present quality initiatives, implementing six sigma operation and using a greater number of physician extender practitioners. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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Medical Center (NNMC) is the primary site of Navy medicine and is one of the largest healthcare systems in the United States. Its structure is consistent with military hierarchy,
but it operates with much compassion and caring for the service members it exists to serve. NNMC will be taking on some of the functions of Walter Reed Army
Hospital by 2011 and so has opportunity to greatly enhance the quality and efficiency of both the existing organization and the one it will become within three years. Recommendations
for change include continuing present quality initiatives, implementing six sigma operation and using a greater number of physician extender practitioners. Introduction One author
characterizes the NNMC as "a jewel in the crown of the U.S. military health care system" (Murphy, 1986; p. 68). It was a 500-bed facility in 1973, at a
time when a 500-bed was fairly gargantuan by national standards. It "is the hospital of Presidents" (Murphy, 1986; p. 68) and their families, where Ronald Reagan, Lyndon Johnson and
Marilyn Quayle had surgery and where Richard Nixon was treated for viral pneumonia in 1973. There are hundreds of navy medicine sites and
partners throughout the country and at offshore sites such as Guam; NNMC is the primary site of the entire massive system. Structure NNMC
is indeed massive. Its 88 buildings are situated on 243 acres, but it maintains many fewer beds than when there were many fewer navy hospital sites throughout the country.
Todays bed count is 257 (At a Glance, n.d.). Even so, in 2006 NNMC had 7,960 admissions, 455,503 visits to hospital clinics, 2,015 births and 4,540 total staff
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