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You're hired as the Director of Operations Director for a publicly-held hospital chain. You have been asked to evaluate the organization's strategic planning approach because of changes in recent legislation (Affordable Care Act, Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Joint Commission, etc.). To gather data for your assignment, identify a publicly-held health care organization of your choice. Prepare a report academic or professional references published in the past five years that indicates the following:

1. Identify all of the stakeholders that are involved and impacted by the organization.
2. Differentiate internal from external stakeholders, and evaluate the relationship between the organizational mission and vision for each stakeholder group based on strategic planning components.
3. Evaluate at least 3 business units or stakeholder groups that should be subjected to further evaluation to support the strategic initiatives of the organization, and provide your rationale and justification.
4. Analyze the mission and vision statements of the organization from the perspective of each of the identified stakeholders.
5. Assess the organization's approach to addressing recent health care legislation, and provide an evaluation of the strategic response that is commonly employed.

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The Solution uses the example case to find stakeholders, their relationships, and evaluates the hospital's potential going forward.

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https://www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/hcbs/medicaidmgmt/mm2.html
https://hcahealthcare.com/about/our-mission-and-values.dot
https://hcahealthcare.com/about/hca-healthcare-data-and-the-affordable-care-act.dot

1. Identify all of the stakeholders that are involved and impacted by the organization.

There are many different stakeholders involved in the process at HCA healthcare, which is the largest healthcare provider within the United States. These stakeholders include healthcare practitioners, patients, state agencies responsible for providing state residents with Medicaid and Medicare under federal healthcare programs that serve the poor and indigent in the U.S. These state agencies are important stakeholders who must help distribute federal funds toward providing healthcare and paying hospitals for their healthcare services. The community as a whole, advocates who advocate on behalf of patients, and insurers are also important stakeholders involved in the process.

The different stakeholders within the HCA system all possess different interests but it is the responsibility of the HCA healthcare organization to ensure that the most important focus is predicated on providing quality care for patients to ensure the most optimal healthcare outcomes for patients. HCA seeks to ensure that all stakeholders are engaged throughout each stage of the process wherein stakeholders form a diverse group of stakeholders who are able to assist in the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of the delivery of healthcare services throughout the healthcare organization.

The objective is to ensure that there is effective coordination and communication that is ...

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