Health Organizations Case Study

Health Organizations Case Study
Health Organizations Case Study
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Health Organizations Case Study
Banner Healthcare
Banner Healthcare is a United States healthcare system located in Phoenix, Arizona. It is
a non-profit health organization that operates 28 hospitals with several other specialized facilities
within the 6 states of America. It is one of Arizona's largest employers and has employed over
50,000 people in the U.S (Tyler et al., 2014). It had revenue of 7.83 billion USD as of (2017).
The healthcare Organization was founded in 1999, through merging with Lutheran Health
Systems and provides services in the states of Nevada, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado,
California, and Arizona. The service it provides includes primary care facilities, medical group,
emergency room services, and Health care services. This paper aims at discussing readiness of
Banner healthcare to provide healthcare needs for citizens in the next decade, address its
strategic plan and cultural issues that affect them.
Readiness to address the health needs of citizens for the next decade
Banners' readiness in providing healthcare needs has been seen as from 1994, when they
started school-based clinics. Many uninsured children rely on banner healthcare facilities as the
only source of healthcare. The organization serves over 3000 children every year with its
children's hospitals spending less than $700,000 (Wittie, Ngo‐Metzger, Lebrun‐Harris, Shi &
Nair, 2014). There are 16 Banner health foundation-funded clinics which help children who
attend schools in Phoenix, Mesa, Chandler, Tempe, and Gilbert districts who suffer ear infection,
sports physicals, immunizations, as well as cold and flu (Tyler et al., 2014). Banner Healthcare
also opened 4 healthcare clinics in East Valley, aiming at providing care for the whole family in
just one center. It also extended morning and evening hours and also Saturday morning hours
(Michael, Schaffer, Egan, Little & Pritchard, 2013).

Health Organizations Case Study
This program was earlier opened in other areas, for instance, Maricopa and Sun
City/Peoria. With more other similar centers expected to be opened they are aimed at lowering
the cost while at the same time providing sickness care and wellness rather than having people
go for urgent care in emergency rooms (Michael, Schaffer, Egan, Little & Pritchard, 2013). The
centers are also close to people’s places of work and where they live. More important is that all
the centers (clinics) are tied digitally to the whole system (Tyler et al., 2014). This means every
center can access all medical information from one point in their respective areas (Michael,
Schaffer, Egan, Little & Pritchard, 2013). This, in turn, helps doctors to avoid unnecessary
duplication of tests cutting down on the radiation exposure (Michael, Schaffer, Egan, Little &
Pritchard, 2013). The information above shows that Banner Healthcare is well prepared to carry
out healthcare needs for its citizens in the next decade.
Strategic plan for network growth
Expanding network is an important thing for the banner healthcare to boost its
effectiveness when providing service to the patients. Banner Healthcare has applied various ways
to strategically deal with the network growth: University Medical Center Corporation (Kuhn &
Lehn, 2015). The facility trains and heals wildcats. It has three operational, academic medical
centers in Tucson and Phoenix, which serves as the primary training hospital for Arizona's
University as well as offering medical treatment, education, and research services (Kuhn &
Lehn, 2015). This center is not for the profit, and its services include dialysis care, transplant,
respiratory, geriatrics, cardiology, cancer and general practice with services like home health.
This network started operating jointly with Banner Healthcare in 2015 (Wittie, Ngo‐Metzger,
Lebrun‐Harris, Shi & Nair, 2014).