Strategic Planning and Decision-Making in Banner Healthcare

This report provides an overview of Banner Health, a leading non-profit healthcare organization in the US, examining its mission, vision, and strategic initiatives. It analyzes the organization's background, including key milestones like the delivery of the Perkins sextuplets and its commitment to improving healthcare access. The report outlines Banner Health's mission statement, vision statement, and strategic initiatives, emphasizing its focus on enhancing health conditions and making healthcare easier. It discusses the role of the mission statement in the organizational planning process, highlighting how it guides stakeholders and promotes supreme treatment and care. The report also addresses the constraints of the cyber security initiative during the planning process, such as economic obstacles and stakeholder engagement issues, and explores tools and techniques like Factor Analysis Matrix, Decision Tree, and Operation Research used in the decision-making process. Finally, it concludes by emphasizing TMC's sustainable position in the healthcare sector and its commitment to improving the health of US citizens.

HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONAL PLANNING

Organization Overview
• Head quartered in Phoenix;
Banner Healthcare is recognized
as one of the leading and
prominent non-profit health
organization in the US.
• It executes its operation in
around 28 hospitals and various
multi specialized facility
services across 6 states
(Bannerhealth.com, 2018).
• Being one of the largest
employer in Arizona and one of
the largest in US it recruits over
50,000 employees.

Company Background
• TMC since its development has significantly
been pioneering certain medical
innovations which aim to transform the
lives of the US citizens.
• In 2012, Texas Children Hospital has
attained recognition of delivering Perkins
sextuplets which is the only surviving
sextuplets in Texas at the span of around
4.5 weeks (Bannerhealth.com. (2018).
• Around 150 members and community
leaders of the organization have gathered
in 2014 to form a discourse related to the
future prospective of the Texas Medical
Center and posit the organization at being
one of the prominent leaders in the domain
of life sciences (Banner Health Foundation, 2018).

Mission Statement, Vision Statement,
And One Strategic Initiative
• Banner Health care organization aims to enhance the
health conditions of the people in Texas.
• The health care organization further reveals
high degree of commitment towards their
mission which is “making health care
easier, so life can be better.”
• One of the important missions or objectives
of the organization relies on providing
health care facilities and improving the
health conditions of the people in US rather
than solely focusing on high amount of
revenue generation (Banner Health, 2013).

Mission Statement, Vision Statement, And One
Strategic Initiative
• The primary goal of TMC is to gather utmost prominence to
become world leader in the domain of health and life sciences by
further leveraging cumulative strength of TMC’s recognized
institutions in a mutual, centrally regulated and sustainable
environment (Ginter, Duncan & Swayne, 2018).
• Taking effective initiatives and positive approaches are considered
to be fundamental mission or goal of TMC in order to serve the
health, education as well as research and development needs of
Texas and the world.
• Being one of the most recognized and diverse community of the
health care domain, TMC is positioned in order to create a
difference in ways in which other institutions reveal low level of
competencies (Cummings & Worley, 2014).

Strategic Initiatives
• TMC as a part of Healthcare Informatics’
Cyber security Special Evaluation Report
has significantly a few essential strategies
which forward-thinking business
organizations are establishing in order to
develop their data security defense
primarily supervising the behavioral
patterns whereby organizations aim to
examine their users at a high level
(Heidenreich et al., 2013).
• It further leverages the identity and
accessibility of management (IAM) protocols
in order to mitigate illicit and unauthorized
accessibility or revelation of information.

Role Of Mission Statement In The
Organizational Planning Process
• The strategic planning of Banner health
relates to the organization’s purpose and
has effectively aided its stakeholders.
• It further exhibits the values and ideologies
of Banner Health through several actions
and behaviors which they demonstrate to
patients and their family members.
• The organization with its non-profit mission facilitates
the sustainability of delivering supreme treatment and
care in the support services roles and responsibilities.

Constraints of the cyber security initiative
during the planning process
• Banner Healthcare encountered economic
obstacles while employing strategic
planning within the organizational system.
• One of the significant errors aroused for not
successfully engaging internal and external
stakeholders thus failed to focus on
relevant issues and areas of concern
because of complex decision making
processes (Smith, 2013).
• The organization further underwent certain
conflicting situations which further created
unconstructive outcomes during the
strategic planning.

Tools And Techniques That To Employ During
The Decision-making Process
1. Factor Analysis Matrix- The alternative decisions
can be implemented by Banner healthcare which can
be compared through a table or matrix
2. Decision Tree- The organization can further
implement this tool for healthcare managers in order
to trace potential actions which have the propensity
to occur from diverse decision points (Siqueira et al.,
2014).
This tool engages into effective and fundamental
decision making and facilitates to delineate reasoning
and evaluate the situations (Melnyk et al., 2014).
3. Operation Research- This tool is recognized as a
scientific method to evaluate any issues, process or
operational functions.

Tools And Techniques That To Employ During
The Decision-making Process
Factor Analysis
Matrix- The
alternative decisions
can be implemented
by Banner healthcare
which can be
compared through a
table or matrix
Decision Tree-
The organization can
further implement this
tool for healthcare
managers in order to
trace potential actions
which have the
propensity to occur from
diverse decision points.
This tool engages into
effective and
fundamental decision
making and facilitates to
delineate reasoning and
evaluate the situations.
Operation
Research- This tool
is recognized as a
scientific method to
evaluate any issues,
process or
operational
functions.

Conclusion
• TMC has obtained sustainable position in the
healthcare sector because of its unparalleled and
supreme resources and proficiency and drives the
commercialization of innovative ideas and goals to
transform as a global medical proficient and effectively
enhance the level of human health of the US citizens.

References
• Banner Health Foundation. (2018). Banner Health Foundation. Retrieved
from https://www.bannerhealthfoundation.org/
• Banner Health. (2013). Compliance Handbook. Retrieved from
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.
• Bannerhealth.com. (2018). About. Retrieved from
https://www.bannerhealth.com/about
• Bannerhealth.com. (2018). Staying Well. Retrieved from
https://www.bannerhealth.com/staying-well
• Cummings, T. G., & Worley, C. G. (2014). Organization development and
change. Cengage learning.
• Ginter, P. M., Duncan, W. J., & Swayne, L. E. (2018). The strategic
management of health care organizations. John Wiley & Sons.

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