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Due April 24, 2017, worth 200 points
Paradise Hospital, Inc. is a for-profit hospital. As the facility’s new hospital administrator, you have been tasked with improving the service value of the hospital. The administration has not done this process since the hospital began operating in the year 1995. The investors are not familiar with the value proposition strategies of hospitals in the current day America.
Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.
Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:
- Articulate the meaning of value-added service as it pertains to patient care services, and argue the major reasons why it matters to add value to patient services. Justify your response.
- Outline a system for identifying the functional areas in which changes might be necessary in order to improve the hospital’s service value. Recommend the key methods that you would use to acquire the information necessary to identify the specified functional areas.
- Specify four (4) specific areas where you believe the administration can add value in Paradise Hospital, and argue the most significant reasons why such value proposition would improve the value of services to the patients.
- Use four (4) recent (within the last five [5] years) quality academic resources in this assignment.
Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
- Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
- Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
- Propose methodologies that have been proven to increase value in health care delivery systems.
- Use technology and information resources to research issues in health care management.
- Write clearly and concisely about health care management using proper writing mechanics.
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Running head: VALUE ADDED SERVICES IN HEALTHCARE INSTITUTION
Value Added Services in Healthcare Institution
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In today’s extremely competitive atmosphere, the survival, maintenance and success of
health care centers are governed by the ability to deliver quality-added services to their patients
at the lowest affordable cost. As such, managers and must, therefore, identify their customers and
meet the needs, expectations, and desires of those customers (Ahmed, 2016). Essentially, an
established approach for sustaining these needs as well as expectations is very crucial. For that
reason, this paper will primarily focus on how to add value to the Paradise Hospital in California,
United States. In particular, the paper will explore various reasons as to why it is important to
add value to various services at the hospital and outline a structure for detecting the useful areas
in which changes and improvements are needed to improve average hospital performance.
At its simplest definition, value added service refers to available options that can be used
to complement core services offered by an institution, organization or a company. On that note,
value-added services can be something extra provided to customer at no additional charge.
However, the structure of a value-added service mostly differ from one healthcare to the other
depending on whether the management sees the added service as a platform to create a stronger
relationship with consumers or as a source of additional revenue (Ahmed, 2016).
In a health care context where patients and doctors are involved, value-added service
refers to all the efforts that aim at improving the overall condition of the medical facility.
Specifically, the primary objective of value-added service in this situation is to make
improvements on various services provided to patients. Therefore, it is expected that patients will
appreciate the standard of services offered by the health care institution and make them desire to
consult with the same institution later in the future (Gibbons, 2013). We have numerous value-
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added services which nurses, doctors and other medical practitioners can offer to their patients.
For example,...