Health Organization Case Study

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Introduction
United Health Group is a health care company that offers products related to health care
and insurance services having its headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota and it holds sixth
position in the United States on the Fortune 500. United Healthcare consist of four divisions-
United Healthcare Employer and Individual, United Healthcare Community and State, United
Healthcare Medicare and Retirement and United Healthcare Global. United Health Group has
two different platforms to serve clients and consumers- United Healthcare delivers healthcare
treatment and payback solutions and Optum delivers details and technology-permitted fitness
solutions. The thesis statement of this essay is to provide readiness of the United Health Group in
addressing the health care requirements of general public and their strategic arrangement dealing
with issues of growth of system, nurse employment, resource administration, satisfaction of
patients.
Discussion
United Health care provides a vast series of programs with aim of helping people live
in a better way to meet the need of health care of citizens in the next decade. They try to
improve their performance of the health care method in improving the citizens’ health by
increasing the way to excellence health care through giving proper information and instruction to
create their individual health options in reasonable charges (Jee & Kim, 2013). According to the
news letter of United Health care, their market developments facilitate guarantee on quality,
reasonable and transportable coverage to all residents of United States (Sandy, Tuckson &

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Stevens, 2013). The organization tries to make medicines more affordable and more reachable to
the people who need them.
The calculated plan to deal with the problems concerning to network development
strategic arrangement is the method where organizations expand an idea, aim as well as certain
tactics to attain the goal. Satisfaction of the patients and easy access of cost effectiveness of the
citizens is permitted through the developed network system and technological improvement
provided by the organization (Antheunis, Tates & Nieboer, 2013). United Healthcare has
provided a magnetic stripe at the back of the cards that are offered to the customers. These cards
help the doctors and hospital staffs to get actual time data on every patient that let them to know
their information of eligibility, benefits of patients and claim history. This card system also helps
organizations and hospitals save a lot of money. The doctors and other medical specialists can
reach patients even when it is not possible to get the doctors with the help if tele-health system.
The organization promotes electronic health record systems in the hospitals so that it helps in
reduction of medical faults and this will finally assist in improving the safety and quality of
patient’s life.
The strategic plan that addresses issues pertaining to nurse staffing is the method
which resolves certain issues like aging population, rising demand, aging nurse workforce,
economic pressure, and unsatisfactory working conditions. United Health Group always tries to
provide accessible, high featured, patient focused programs at lesser price. A nurse-led care
management program since 2012 of its Medicare Advantage plans comprising AARP Medicare
Complete has been a winner in HouseCalls (Hoadley et al., 2013). It has been seen that nurse