CONDUCTING A DETAILED SWOT ANALYSIS ON A HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATION
Conduct a detailed SWOT analysis of your chosen healthcare organization. Discuss your selected organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats.Kaiser Permanente has been providing health care for over 60 years (Kaiser Permanente, 2017). They also dedicated to improving the health of their members and the communities they serve, by creating safe, healthy environments and providing care and coverage for all (Kaiser Permanente, 2017, p.1). What a great organization the more information that is gathered about KP. I can see why when some people say that the future of health care looks like the model that Kaiser has (Abelson, 2013). This paper will lay out a SWOT analysis for Kaiser Permanente giving detail accounts to the strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats. Strengths– An organization’s resources and capabilities that can be used as a basis for developing a competitive advantage (Stevens & Silver, 2015, p.4.5). This is the list of strengths based on the analysis they have been able to reduce labor costs, more experienced business units.Thirdly high growth rate, hire more skilled workforce (Weiner Consulting, 2017, p.1). The strengths of an organization are what the company can use to build on to make their weakness a strength. Essentially can the limitations become limitless they do have a model in place that is patient first. The goal of strengths is to identify a distinctive competence an example is a super strength which provides an edge in serving patient’s needs and delivering patient satisfaction (Stevens & Silver, 2015, p.4.6).Weaknesses– Limitations of an organization to meet the needs of its determined customer base (Stevens & Silver, 2015, p.4.5). Here are some of weaknesses first small business units, high turnover rates with employees. Since this is a health maintenance organization (HMO) insurance
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CONDUCTING A DETAILED SWOT ANALYSIS
