Strategic Planning Approaches of Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento
Develop an analysis of the organization's strategic planning approaches. Be sure to address the following:
Based on its mission and vision statements, what can you discern about the organization's approach to strategic planning? Be sure to provide specific examples to justify your response.
What is the prevailing issue in question in the case study you selected?
What do you see as the overall strategic planning concerns for the healthcare organization with regard to this issue?
What role do you feel the healthcare manager plays in terms of strategic planning around this issue? Be sure to substantiate your claims.
Who are the key stakeholders affected by or involved in this issue, and what role do they serve in strategic planning within the organization?
Strategic Planning Approaches
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Strategic Planning Approaches
Excessive wait times plagued the Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center emergency room in 2007. An entirely new and more efficient way of doing business had to be found. Dr. Karen Murell became the head of the lean program, a system of management methods and tools used in manufacturing for 25 years to improve things. Over six years, considerable improvements in the department's key performance indicators have been made. Patients and the emergency department were not adversely affected due to the plan to increase capacity and flow in a healthcare setting. This paper will look at the analysis of the strategic plan of the Kaiser Permanente case study.
Strategic planning Concerns
The overall strategic planning concerns for the healthcare organization concerning this issue will be looked at following Swot analysis, i.e., Strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities.
Strength
The ability and resources of the emergency department to create a long-term competitive advantage are its greatest assets. If one compares High Margins in the Emergency Department to its competitors, one will see that it charges a higher price ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"aKiRwCdH","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(United States. Department of Agriculture. Risk Management Agency, 2017)","plainCitation":"(United States. Department of Agriculture. Risk Management Agency, 2017)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":8,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/rTJU8Qs5/items/RPGCFR96"],"itemData":{"id":8,"type":"book","collection-title":"Program aid","publisher":"U.S. Department of Agriculture, Risk Management Agency","title":"SWOT analysis: a tool for making better business decisions","URL":"https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=NkYLbgFrPZYC","author":[{"literal":"United States. Department of Agriculture. Risk Management Agency"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2017"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (United States. Department of Agriculture. Risk Management Agency, 2017). Emergency Departments now have the means to fend off competitive pressures.
Weaknesses
Too much emphasis is placed on internal delivery in project management rather than taki...