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Study 2 This paper will discuss a case study about a hospital called Faith Community Hospital. This hospital has many problems from finical to ethical. The issues exist from the top level executive officers down to the regular staff. There is an increase in operation costs and low occupancy rates. This paper will discuss some of the root causes of some of the major issues and problems along with some analysis and evaluations of alternative solutions. Faith Community Hospital has a series of problems the main being finical hardship. This is being caused by many different factors and elements. Various elements have contributed to this point of heightened financial hardship. This hospital is being forced to come up with new and innovative methods of revenue along with addressing the issues causing financial difficulty. Along with identifying specific issues, problems, and root causes, the decisions must be made in order to ensure a continued finical future. Faith community hospital has a spiritual foundation and heritage that it values and promotes in its service to patients in its community. However, these same spiritual views have put some employees on the opposite side of the religious fence and it has divided the staff on issues such as Do Not Resuscitate directives. Some hospital staff is refusing to administer certain types of care due to religious values and beliefs. Doctors are reacting by putting patients first; however, they get left feeling powerless. Faith community hospital has a familiar story. Rising operating costs and decreased patient occupancy will force the hospital to reduce fixed costs by fifteen percent in order to break even if the hospital does not begin to show signs of improvement very soon. Study 3 There are increasing costs to care for patients and a decrease in the number of patients coming to the hospital is one of the major issues that need to be addressed. Patient costs have been raised from $217.00 a patient per day to $240.00 a patient per day. There are several reasons why people are not coming to Faith Community Hospital for care. A major reason is the hospital’s declining reputation. Several publicized malpractice incidents have tarnished the hospitals reputations for quality patient care. There has been incidents where staff have initiated Do Not Resuscitate directives to patients with no such legal paperwork documenting that they did not wish to be revived if need be. In addition, there have been incidents where staff has not followed Do Not Resuscitate directives for patients that had the proper paperwork and where it was their wish not to be revived. The author of this paper believes that patients want to be treated and cared for by competent and ethical healthcare organizations. One clear objective to become more financially stable is to increase patient occupancy at Faith Community hospital. In order to achieve that goal certain objectives will have to be set and met. First, improving patient care and quality of patient care will be essential to attract new patients and will result in an improved reputation. This can be done by retraining or hiring new staff that share the same value system as Faith Hospital’s mission statement. This will result in a reduction of conflicting and unethical situations. Reducing cost is another goal to help keep Faith Community Hospital profitable. Some costs needs to be cut without compromising patient care and without compromising quality.
Approximate Word count = 2235
Approximate Pages = 8.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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