In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to 2 other classmates threads. Each reply must be at least 250 words. Each thread and reply must include a biblical integration and at least 2 peer-reviewed source citations in current APA format (in addition to the textbook).
Reply 1:
University Hospital
The mission statement for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania is closely related to its vision statement and lays out clearly what the facility is about. It reads in part we are dedicated to discoveries that advance science, to outstanding patient care throughout the world, and to the education of physicians and scientists (Penn Medicine). University Hospital is known throughout the world as a leader in patient care, provider education, and cutting-edge research and has achieved that distinction through its vision of transformational leadership as well as teaching and research excellence. This is clearly communicated through the mission and vision statements.
Hospital Healthcare System
Geisinger Medical Center (GMC) is one the leading medical facilities in central Pennsylvania. It is a teaching hospital and offers Level 1 Trauma Center as well as a pediatric hospital along with many other specialty services. The Geisinger Health System mission statement details the goal to enhance the quality of life through an integrated health service organization (Geisinger). Along with the core values of the organization: Kindness, Excellence, Learning, Safety, and Innovation this vision has guided GMC over the past 100 years in evolving and expanding to meet the medical needs of the region as well as developing innovative programs that have impacted healthcare nationwide.
Not-For-Profit Community Hospital
Evangelical Community Hospital (ECH) is a smaller hospital in central Pennsylvania that is more intensely focused on the needs of the local community. The ECH mission statement details the goal to provide exceptional healthcare, accessible to all, in the safest and most compassionate atmosphere possible (Evangelical). The vision to be the healthcare provider of choice for the community is supported by the core values. All of these are carefully crafted into a cohesive message that is well communicated.
Ambulatory Care Center
Med Express Urgent Care Center is a local ambulatory care center with a clearly stated mission. Their mission statement, vision, and values are summed up in one short paragraph that reads in part our mission is to help people live healthier lives and to help the health system work better (MedExpress).
Skilled Nursing Facility
Skilled nursing facilities often serve a very specific clientele such as elderly or patients with chronic illnesses, and many times the patients which they serve remain in the facilities on a more long-term basis. Consulate Health Care is one such organization and its mission and values statement expresses the importance of not only their mission but also the core values. These care providers often form deep bonds with their patients due to spending a longer term of care with the patients.
Leaders in healthcare organizations are responsible for establishing the mission and vision of the organizations that they lead. Clearly stated mission and vision as well as core values are important in establishing the culture of an organization and will help to drive a carefully crafted marketing program (Cellucci et al., 2014). Visionary leadership is a concept that the Bible teaches. Guidance for leaders in Ephesians 1:17 states: I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Glorious Father, would give you a spirit of wisdom, and revelation in the knowledge of Him (HCSB)
References
Caring for one patient at a time. com About Us | MedExpress Urgent Care. https://www.medexpress. /about.html
Cellucci, L. W., Wiggins, C., & Farnsworth, T. J. (2014). Healthcare marketing: A case study approach. Health Administration Press. https://libertyonline.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781567936056/
Evangelical’s mission statement. Evangelical Community Hospital. https://www.evanhospital.com/about/evangelicals-mission-statement
Mission and history. Penn Medicine. https://www.pennmedicine.org/about/mission-and-history.
Mission and core values – consulate health care. http://consulatehealthcare.com/mission-and-core-values.aspx
Our values. Geisinger. https://www.geisinger.org/about-geisinger/our-values
reply 2:
1. University Hospital: University of Virginia Hospital
a. https://uvahealth.com/about/mission
b. Mission: To provide excellence, innovation, and superlative quality in the care of patients, the training of health professionals, and the creation of sharing of health knowledge within a culture that promotes equity, diversity, and inclusiveness.
c. Vision: UVA Health has launched an effort to develop and define a shared vision for our future that covers all four mission areas: community & health equity, education, patient care, and research.
d. Values: We aspire to create a culture of trust, respect, and engagement through out values: accountability, stewardship, professionalism, integrity, respect, and excellence.
e. Managing and Marketing: UVA has a detailed mission statement that clearly identifies their organizational identity. They are clear about staying up with technology and training new doctors and nurses. UVA includes one thing that the other in this assignment do not which is the statement on inclusiveness, even going as far to say, equity and diversity. This means that those who feel they are judged, mistreated or not welcome at other establishments may choose this one because they are clear on a judgement-free health facility.
2. Hospital Healthcare System: Carilion Clinic
a. https://www.carilionclinic.org/about-carilion-clinic#how-we-give-back
b. Mission: Improve the health of the communities we serve.
c. Vision: We are committed to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health and lower cost.
d. Values: Collaboration, Commitment, Compassion, Courage, Curiosity.
e. Managing and Marketing: With the aging population and the elderly living longer, healthier lives the need for healthcare has increased (Hillestad & Berkowitz, 2020). Carilion does not have a detailed mission or vision statement. The vision does match the values which is always beneficial to painting a picture of an organizational identity and good ethical background (Lahey & Nelson, 2020).
3. Not-for profit Community Hospital: Sentara
a. https://www.sentara.com/
b. Mission: We improve health every day
c. Vision: To be the healthcare choice of the community
d. Values: People, Quality, Patient Safety, Service, and Integrity
e. Managing and Marketing: Organizational identity is created through the alignment of individual and organizational values (Min, Shen, Berlan & Lee, 2020). Sentara has a very basic, simple mission statement and vision so to connect with consumers, their best chance is through shared values.
4. Ambulatory Care Center: Ambulatory Care Center
a. https://surgerycenternj.com/about/
b. Mission: To provide high quality, cost-effective healthcare in an outpatient setting. Through a strong partnership with our patients, community, physicians, employees, and other healthcare providers, were able to continually improve and develop our services to provide the best comprehensive care in New Jersey.
c. Vision: The Ambulatory Care Center is distinguished as a community outpatient healthcare delivery system offering a broad range of high quality, cost-effective healthcare services that continue to improve the health status in our region.
d. Values: Excellence, Compassion, Empowerment, Partnership, Integrity
e. Managing and Marketing: The mission statement for The Ambulatory Care Center is a strong statement. It is detailed and unique and really sets them out for an organizational identity and differentiates themselves from competitors (Min, Shen, Berlan, & Lee, 2020). A key statement in the mission statement is that they will continually improve meaning that they are willing to put in the work for innovation to keep up with medical technology and advances for the best possible care.
5. Skilled Nursing Facility: Palm Garden Health and Rehabilitation Center
a. https://palmgarden.com/
Mission: Our mission is to create a compassionate environment for each person entrusted to our care and to inspire hope and healing by helping those individuals achieve their highest level of physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Vision: Our vision is to become the preferred post-acute care provider in each community we serve. We commit to improving lives of all the people entrusted to our care through clinical excellence and extraordinary service offered in an atmosphere of compassion, hospitality, and respect for the dignity of each person.
Values: Integrity, Respect, Compassion, Commitment, Service to Others
Managing and Marketing: Skilled nursing facility often see patients for rehab from hip replacement and knee replacements and like surgeries. The effect of the aging population has ben seen with hip replacements doubling from 2000 to 2014 and knee replacements increasing even faster (Hillestad & Berkowitz, 2020). This mission statement supports the vision and values that the company also stated which benefits in showing good organizational structure.
Proverbs 16:7 (New King James Bible, 1982), When a mans ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peach with him. Mission and vision statements set the tone or the personality of an organization. When leadership sets the tone within the mission, vision statements and values as wholesome place and with ethical decision making and Christian worldview, they can only benefit the organization and really bring out people to embrace the organization despite any negative thoughts or ideas they may have.
