Assisted Living Facilities and Professionalism Discussion
Description
Week 1
Choose one of the organizations from the list below or identify a nonprofit hospital in your community to research. Review the Mission, Vision, and Values (MVVs) statements from the organization. If the values statement is not available, please indicate that in your initial post. Please note, this same list of organizations is provided for the Week 3 assignment and the Week 5 final paper. You may want to review multiple organizations to determine which one you would like to use for those assignments. While you are not required to use the same organization in the Week 3 assignment as you this activity, you are expected to use the same organization for both the Weeks 3 and 5 assignments:
Week 3
Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, read Chapters 5 and 6 from our textbook along with the instructor guidance. Choose one of the following case studies for the topic of your initial post: Magnolia Hospital’s Strategic Issues or Avalon Organization’s Strategic Issues
Competitive Strategy: The organization differentiates itself from other organizations through higher quality care, unique services, or environmental experience that patients cannot get elsewhere.
In your initial post, address the following:
- CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Health System
- Cleveland Clinic
- Henry Ford Health System
- Lutheran Services in America
- Mayo Clinic
- Medtronic
- Shriners Hospitals for Children
- Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Stanford Medical Center
- Trinity Health
- UC Davis Medical Center
- University hospital or other nonprofit hospital in your community
- University of Texas Health (UT Health)
- Veteran’s Health Administration (VHA)
- What Is CRAAP? A Guide to Evaluating Web Sources (Links to an external site.)
- Advanced Internet Search Techniques (Links to an external site.)
- Keywords Are Critical (Links to an external site.)
- Identify the organization and provide a URL to the Mission, Vision and Values page.
- Explain why the Mission, Vision, and Values are linked to the strategic plan.
- Briefly discuss two goals you would expect to find in the strategic plan for the chosen organization and include your rationale for the choices-Assisted Living Facilities
- Examine why it is important to include the marketing department in the strategic plan.
- Hospital
- Long-term care organization
- Home health care agency
- Multispecialty physician clinic
- Freestanding dialysis center
- Assisted living facilities
- Identify the city and state where the organization exists.
- Determine at least two political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental trends (PESTLE) that most need to be scanned by the health care organization.
- Provide your reasoning for each choice.
- Discuss whether your chosen organization has opportunities for growth in your community.
- Explain your reasoning-Assisted Living Facilities
- Discuss at least one strategy that will maximize opportunities to gain a competitive edge in the community and minimize threats for the organization to ensure relevancy in the future.

- Identify the title of the case study you are addressing at the top of your discussion post.
- Develop a strategic alternative for the case study based on your assigned topic.
- If you are assigned adaptive strategy, you will recommend increasing or decreasing the size of the organization, supported with your reasoning-Assisted Living Facilities
- If you are assigned market entry strategy, you will recommend expanding through purchasing new buildings that will offer additional services or identify another type of health care organization with which the HSO from the case study can enter an alliance, supported with your reasoning.
- If you are assigned competitive strategy, you will recommend increasing quality of care, new services, or environmental changes that increase the patient’s perception of comfort and care, supported with your reasoning.
- Describe the possible benefits as well as challenges that may occur with your alternative strategy.