NURS FPX 8020 Assessment 2 Strategic Plan Development

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Capella University
NURS FPX 8020 Assessment 2
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Strategic Plan Development

Strategic planning processes are the procedures used by healthcare institutions to establish the critical structures to resource allocation, enhancement of performance as well as responsiveness to the changing healthcare environments. Patient welfare advancement and medical proficiency ensure that the strategic goals are authentic service delivery requirements and population demands (Hussain et al., 2024).

Comprehensive strategic planning that incorporates the views of bedside clinicians improves the performance of institutions and the wellness of the community. The primary objective of the assessment includes the creation of a strategic plan of the emergency department within the Cleveland Clinic, and the use of a balanced scorecard method.

Departmental Strategic Priorities

Healthcare institutions need to strike a balance between financial sustainability and mission-driven care provision. Priority in the financial domain within the emergency department includes better point-of-service measures to minimize the accounts receivable days, improve cash flow, and correspondingly with the system-wide emphasis on the efficiency of operations and a 1.7% operating margin change (Cleveland Clinic, 2024).

The priority is possible since the system has patient receivables of $1.85 billion and has shown the capacity to reduce its days revenue outstanding from 53 to 48 days through revenue cycle improvements (The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 2024). As the number of emergency department visits grows at a rate of 4.4 percent to 993,993 every year, even a slight rise in the rates of collection would produce a considerable financial effect in 12 months (The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 2024). In order to maintain healthcare excellence and community service, strategic financial management is important.

Patient experience is an essential healthcare quality and organizational performance measure. The emergency department customer domain priority is to adopt measures to enhance access to ease of care and minimise door-to-care time, based on the system’s success in reducing the average ED door-to-care time by 22.30 to 16.03 minutes (Cleveland Clinic, 2024). The priority is in line with the vision of the Cleveland Clinic of becoming the best place to be cared for and achieving patient experience targets in all care settings (Cleveland Clinic, 2024).

Having departmental resources, such as standardized best practices, purposeful hourly rounding, leadership rounding, and the no pass zone program, can be implemented in a six-month cycle of improvement (Cleveland Clinic, n.d.). Outstanding patient experience determines the clinical outcomes and organizational reputation in the competitive healthcare markets.

Operational efficiency defines the capacity of healthcare organizations to serve communities in a manner that is both effective and sustainable. The emergency department’s internal processes domain priority is the implementation of AI-powered patient flow optimization tools, such as the Hospital 360 platform created by Palantir Technologies, to enhance capacity (Cleveland Clinic, 2024). The priority directly helps the hospital system to improve performance in hospital admissions and a reduction of average length of stay by 4.5% with a better coordination of inpatient care (Cleveland Clinic, 2024).

The priority can be implemented due to the available technological infrastructures, the annual capital ability of the system, that is 1.1 billion, and the ability to manage 251,998 ED visits (The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 2024). Process innovation will allow healthcare systems to increase access and meet quality and safety standards.

Organizational capacity to ensure sustained excellence directly depends on the workforce development and the well-being of the caregivers. The emergency department learning and growth domain priority is to extend simulation-based training via the Cleveland Clinic Simulation and Advanced Skills Center, which provides 2,700+ courses and 44,000 projected learning encounters yearly (Cleveland Clinic, 2024).

The priority is important to help the system achieve high-79% caregiver engagement scores and aligns with the strategic emphasis on providing a safe, rewarding, and team-based work environment (Cleveland Clinic, 2024). With resource availability, including a board-designated endowment generating $212.5 million annually for education and research, dedicated education funding supports implementation within an academic year cycle (The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 2024).

Growth and safety in caregivers guarantee the capability of an organization to provide outstanding care in the changing requirements of healthcare.

Effects of Organizational Policies

Organizational policies can be deemed as pillars on which departmental strategies are implemented and performance results are achieved. The communication of the H.E.A.R.T. service excellence model and expected service behaviors of the Cleveland Clinic enable customer domain goals directly through defining the standardized communication structures that enhance the patient experience (Cleveland Clinic, n.d.).

The financial policies, which involve 2.5% cost-cutting and 2.1% operating margin, generate the required discipline in revenue cycle optimization efforts and could limit the allocation of resources towards the technology investments that were necessary in the emergency department (Cleveland Clinic, 2024).

Policies of internal processes that encourage the use of AI and collaboration with innovators are supported by International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) and Palantir Technologies, which help to advance the system of patient throughput and digital transformation (The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 2024). Policy alignment is also imperative in the process of converting organizational strategy into a quantifiable departmental success and improvement sustainability.

Implications of Policies

Policies on health care inevitably facilitate as well as hamper the viability of strategic actions. The best practice protocols of the Cleveland Clinic, such as purposeful hourly rounding and leadership rounding, help to improve patient experience by offering implementation frameworks and a standard set of expectations (Cleveland Clinic, 2024).

Nevertheless, the Innovation Management and Conflict of Interest Policy that presupposes thorough review procedures can slow the introduction of new AI-driven throughput technologies despite the organizational endorsement of digital collaboration (The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 2024).

Financial policies that require efficiency in operations and cost control may prevent concomitant investment in revenue cycle infrastructure as well as caregiver resilience programs. Policy constraints and the ability to use organizational supports to plan on the balanced scorecard objectives are the key elements to achieving strategic success.

Alignment between Departmental Strategic Priorities

The alignment of strategies between departmental endeavors and organizational vision ensures that there is coordination in the execution and the prudent use of resources in all healthcare systems. The four balanced scorecard priorities of the emergency department are direct in supporting the four strategic focus areas of the Cleveland Clinic: transform care, empower caregivers, uplift communities, and sustain the Cleveland Clinic.

Improvements in the revenue cycle result in the achievement of a financial optimization objective that is to achieve a 2.1% operating margin and uphold the annual community benefits of 1.46 billion (Cleveland Clinic, 2024). The reduced door-to-care communication processes and improved patient experience achieved by lowering H.E.A.R.T. communication protocols are aligned with the vision to become the best place to get care (Cleveland Clinic, n.d.).

The use of AI-based throughput systems based on Hospital 360 technology is an indicator of the innovation partnership of IBM and Palantir by the organization (Cleveland Clinic, 2024). The programs use caregiver resilience as a lever to access the education endowment of $212.5 million and the annual 44,000 encounters in the Simulation Center, which is a part of the Empower Caregivers focus area of building safe environments (Cleveland Clinic, 2024). Unifying strategic integration ensures resources are maximized and positively impacts the organization, so the company is mission-driven.