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A 5 page paper presenting a strategic plan for a private hospital. The proposed strategy for St. Vincent Health Care is to concentrate on health promotion, disease prevention, community-based health education, increased internal efficiency and continued attention to quality. Patient care remains the leading priority for St. Vincent, but training attention on these other activities and characteristics also serve to further patient care through reduced individual need for available services. The purpose here is to assess the organization's ability to implement its plan and to negotiate both internal and external challenges in pursuit of realization of strategy. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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File: CC6_KShospStratPl2.rtf
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The proposed strategy for St. Vincent Health Care is to concentrate on health promotion, disease prevention, community-based health education, increased internal efficiency and continued attention to quality. Patient care
remains the leading priority for St. Vincent, but training attention on these other activities and characteristics also serve to further patient care through reduced individual need for available services.
The purpose here is to assess the organizations ability to implement its plan and to negotiate both internal and external challenges in pursuit of realization of strategy. Choice Rationale
Health promotion, disease prevention, community-based health education, increased internal efficiency and continued attention to quality (PPEEQ) are the focus areas of the strategic plan.
All of health care continues to evolve and undergo changes that are leading it to forms that may have existed in the past but were less common than they
will be in the future. As health care costs continue to spiral upward despite everyones apparent best efforts to contain them (Porter and Teisberg, 2004), there are now at
least 46.6 million uninsured Americans and likely many more than that official number (Lavizzo-Mourey, 2006). Prevention always has been preferable to treatment, but prevention increasingly is becoming the only
route of accessible health care to growing numbers of Americans. Harvards Clayton Christensen has long preached the gospel of disruptive innovation as being
key to businesses long term success; several years ago he trained his attention on health care to suggest the same for that industry (Christensen, Bohmer and Kenagy, 2000). Even
Paul Ellwood (2002), the designer of the managed care system, has called for changes in the system that will encourage focus first on prevention rather than treatment. SWOT Analysis Strengths
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