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Health Care Economics Assignment

   

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1 Health Care EconomicsName:Course Professor’s nameUniversity nameCity, StateDate of submission

2Cincinnati Children Hospital Medical CenterHistoryCincinnati Children Hospital Medical Center ( CCHMC) was established in 1883 as a pediatric medical examination center.it had over40 branches country wide each of them headed by a director. The organization was founded with three main objectives or aim. The first aim was to research on new medical development, the second aim was to educate new physicians and the third was centered on patient care. The main focus was however in teaching and research. IN 1994, CCHMC drafted a new vision led by its directors (Dunn and Haimann, 2007). With a radical shift in vision of the hospital, the senior management suggested that the focus would nowentirely be on improvement of children health. This required new strategies in place to push the agenda forward. The hospital was now tasked to improve the delivery system with the aim of improving commitment and quality to patient. By 2009, the shift had paid off and it reaped big dividends. It was serving close to 2.2 million people and was recognized among the top three pediatric hospitals around the world. The revenues had exponentially grown with over 235 % from $66 million in 2006 to $1.3. Billion in 2008 financial year. This showed an increase in level of confidence by the people due to rapid transformation brought in by the hospital management. Every department had increased their capacity as it stopped serving only the regional people and concentrated on the wider geographical location (Glandon et al., 2008). What was the problem?The hospital should be drivingthe strategic selection of improvement of projects centrally and to allow motivated individuals to work in areas of their specialty. Improvement meant that the hospital had to expand its capacity and shift its focus on research, teaching and education to

3provision of medical services to the patients. Quality improvement systems had to be embedded in division of medical department. The transition that could be seen in the changing of visions was great (Dunn, n.d.).How to improve the health system /What did they do?CCHMC had a lot of improvement to do. As a result of growing demand and insufficient installed capacity, there is a gap that will not allow patients to be attended to in a timely manner.There are many factors that affect the increase in demand: increase in population, aging of the population, changes in the epidemiological profile, more immigrant population, increase in traffic accidents and exacerbation of violence (Rakich, 2010). Deficiencies to meet this growing demand we do not have sufficient infrastructure and a significant percentage of the existing one is in poor condition. Neither do we have enough equipment nor many of these have already reached their useful life.On the other hand, lack of human resources and adequate planning in thetraining of medical specialists and health technicians. The budgets are insufficient, not in line with the growing demand. CCHMC need a first level of attention and adequate programs in the prevention and promotion of health.An ideal health system is one that has the installed capacity to meet the demand of the population. When the contrary occurs, the imbalance between supply and demand gives rise to waiting lists in outpatient services, diagnostics, surgeries and hospitalization.The solution is to start sustainable programs because, if not, the problem will be greater every day, and will affect the attention of the patients that are the raison d'être of the institution (Dunn, n.d.).

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