In this assessment, you will complete a SWOT Analysis on micro-hospitals and sum
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Question
In this assessment, you will complete a SWOT Analysis on micro-hospitals and summarize your findings.
Background: The popularity of the micro-hospital is exploding. The industry is increasingly focused on providing care at the right time, in the appropriate setting. Micro-hospitals can prove to be less of a financial burden for health systems than a traditional hospital and are designed to managed non-acute inpatient situations. Micro-hospitals focus on treating low-acuity patients and providing ambulatory and emergency services.
Assessment:
1. Complete a SWOT Analysis, providing a minimum of four points in each area to evaluate the micro-hospital model. Please review the resource above to aid in completing your SWOT Analysis.
2. Summarize your findings in a one-page summary.
Explanation / Answer
1Ans: A study undertaken by an organization to identify its internal strengths and weaknesses, as well as its external opportunities and threats.
Unlike community hospitals and small, rural hospitals, healthcare systems are placing micro-hospitals in larger metropolitan areas. The focus is to provide care at the right time in the appropriate setting allowing care to be delivered closer to home with easier access than can be provided at larger
Strengths:
Compared to full-service hospitals, micro-hospitals are cheaper and faster to build and take up less space, Garcia says.
Patient volume ranges widely Typically, we see 25 to 80 patients a day in our emergency departments.
Reachable to everybody in every emergency.
First aid can be given immediately and stable the patients then move them into multi speciality hospitals
Cost effective
Weakness:
May not treatable acute severe conditions
Lack of all the facilities, equipment and infrastructure
Difficult to find more specialised doctors from all the departments.
Security need to improved
Opportunities:
Employment opportunity increases for the health people such as doctors, nurses, technicians, and more
We can gets funds in terms of land for construction of micro hospital from the governments
Threats:
Patient attender may easily absuse the staff since there is no proper support from the management, it is not a main branch.
If someone die in an emergency they will come for the fight on staff. and some time thay attempt to spoil the unit very easily
2Ans:
SWOT analysis needs to be done by in the following ways
After researching micro hospitals and their facilities i have performed SWOT analysis and found their strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats pertainting to it. Mico hospitals are cost effective, provides first aid services, they also have laboratory facilities and radilogy like X-ray and CT scan. But it can not treat the people who requires acute care. But it also perform minor surgeris like appedectomy, some procedures like endoscopy, dental procedures, fluid drain from the lungs and stomach etc. Micro hospitals needs to be build in every where reachable to eery population at least one hospital every 3Kms. For this government would definately arrange the land, banks may give loans to construct it. Secure the micro hospital with cc cam and certain guidelines to be followed by evrybody including staff and others, inorder to avoid threatable situations on the staff and the hospital.