Health Organization Case Study

BANNER HEALTHCARE CASE STUDY Name Institution Affiliation Course Date of submission Banner Health Background Banner health is based in phoenix Arizona and is one of the largest nonprofit healthcare organizations in the US consisting of 19 hospitals, six long term care centers and a number of family health clinics, homecare programs and home medical equipment providers to nine Western and Midwestern states. The organization was formed following the merger between Samaritan health system and Lutheran health system in 1999. It employs about 25,000 individuals and basic medical and emergency services in addition to a variety of specialized services such as heart care, bone marrow transplant and rehabilitation services. The organization is a leading researcher that targets most serious medical conditions such as spinal injuries and Alzheimer’s disease. Banner health is worth about 3.1 billion dollars and revenues of about 2.6 billion dollars. Banner healthy has developed integrated organizational-wide efforts to address the health care quality and safety, reduction of patients’ error and patient satisfactions while cont rolling its operating costs (Kirkman-Liff, 2004). This has been achieved through management utilization, coordination, improvement of performance. The organization identified functional areas and created cross-facility working groups which use deliberate process where knowledge is created reviewed and synthesized and then implemented within the system. This resulted to information sharing and support within the merged organization to enhance accuracy and timeliness of data that enhance the health care professionals to understand and utilize complex tools that facilitate their work well (Kirkman-Liff, 2004). Environmental Analysis Health care providers have a familiar and vexing juxtaposition in the US. The operating costs are on an upward trend while the players in the industry such as insurers, employers, government agencies and consumers are struggling to keep pace with healthcare quality economics. Banner health is not an exceptional to this situation since the organization has to grapple with the factors threatening to increase the gap between cost and revenues (Kirkman-Liff, 2004). There is a logistical challenge of merging two major health care systems and efficiently run the entity while eliminating duplicate functions and activities that drain financial resources. Moreover, there is a rapid population growth in its market with about 100,000 new residents added every year (Lawson, 2013). It can become stressful without proper planning and execution of functions that can significantly affects banner health ability to effectively meet its objectives. Key Resources for Banner Health Banner health formed a unified organization that connected the assortment of clinical and business management technologies. The organization’s issue of expansion is coping with the needs of increasing population through acquisition of surgery centers in which banner health was a minority partner (Lawson, 2013). The organization considered technology option that would support management key operational resources by rolling out application of new facilities to reduce operation cost and time needed to provide quality healthcare (Aiello, 2011). Banner health also adapted self-service capabilities to its employees that saw reduced administrative tasks on human resource staff. Banner health has focused on the need for proper managements of its team so as to attain its goal of 5.1 million dollars in supply spend savings. Technology is the main factor that can enhance this goal to be achieved through centralization of supply chain, financial reports and human resource. The organization has realized success through utilizing Lawson supply chain management, finance and human resource management that saw a set of tools that do not require customization. The integration of both Lawson to Lawson and Lawson to non-Lawson applications, together with a single database as the other strengths resulted to a deep healthcar...