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Learning Healthcare Organizations
What were the problems/issues that lead to the change or the needs for change?
This is a time when healthcare is changing due to standards placed on institutions
for best practice. The Joint Commission, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and
other regulating bodies have set standards that must be followed. It is difficult to rise to
the standards in some cases and organizations are competing for consumers for outpatient
and inpatient services. Organizations that are leaders in their
fields are getting the best consumers. One area of the hospital that is constantly seeing
change is the operating room. This area of the hospital brings in a lot of revenue into the
organization and must change to meet the standards of best practice. Each time a
department or hospital puts research into action there is a learning curve. Staff must
constantly stay current with knowledge of new surgical procedures to function in their
roles in the OR.
Who were the various stakeholders involved in the change?
We are no longer in a time when the local hospital served a specific population.
Clients now have choices and they look for the best available physicians and service
areas for their particular problems. The stakeholders for OR services are many. Surgeons
go where staff has an organized department and quick turn around times. They cannot let
there patient wait in there offices while staff is having difficulty getting the operating
rooms ready for the next patient. Stakeholders also include administrators of the
organization. Today’s hospitals are no longer one structure. They are hospitals, clinics
and physicians who are under one umbrella and need to make sure they are bringing
revenue into the system. The hospital that is our trial center is St. Vincent’s
What time frame was involved in the change process?
The manager at St. Vincent’s Surgery...