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Assignment of case study in health care management

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SECTION A: Case Study & Kotters 8 Steps
The case study opens with a history of King Edward Hospital NHS Trust merger, and discussion of change management challenges presented to Executive Director of Nursing, Tracey Burns on behalf of consortium under her supervision for assessment and feasibility of reduction of patient admissions retention. Actions items to the preliminary strategy included study of patient admission and retention within the Trusts institutions. Initial review of procedures to patient discharge revealed that patients were subject to extended admission due to waits on tests or other outpatient treatments. Other issues pertaining to records and referrals to Social Services and other third party interveners added to the inexpedient process. Patient journey management were so ineffective it was determined, that institutional over capacity was at an all time high
Evaluation of the hospitals soon into the organizational assessment revealed that the inefficiencies were leading to three (3) iterative problem areas verging on crisis: 1 poor communications; 2) increased incidence of hospital associated infections leading to longer admission beyond original diagnosis or intervention; and 3) overcrowding to the point of backlog. Discussed more extensively in Section B, the framework developed out of the organizational assessment was