Boston Children's Hospital This goal of this case is to demonstrate the importance of a community health nursing, or public health nursing strategy. The concepts addressed in the case study include forming strategic partnerships or alliances with related health care institutions, universities, and insurers. Concepts also include the ways non-profit organizations function and how strategic alliances are especially important to maintain. Also, the case study addresses the concept of community health nursing in general. Students should understand this case focuses on the multifaceted roles of the health care organization in the community. Students should also acknowledge the complex interaction between various external forces like economic constraint, legislation, and policy and the functioning of the organization. Students should also understand the complex interaction between internal forces like human resources management and cost accounting on the functioning of the organization. Students should recognize the key success factors for a non-profit health care institution.

Educational Objectives

Students should be cognizant of the fact that the non-profit organization is not accountable to shareholders.

Students should understand that the non-profit health care organization is accountable to the community, including all patients.

Students should understand how and why strategic partnerships and alliances are formed, and how they are helpful to the non-profit health care organization.

Students should understand how specific health care initiatives such as the Home Hydration Program and Community Asthma Initiative help the non-profit organization achieve its goals.

Students should understand how a community health nursing/public health nursing approach can solve problems related to

How can Boston Children's Hospital continue to maintain its standards of excellence and award-winning status within a more restrictive economic climate?
2. How can Boston Children's Hospital cope with the rising demands for beds, especially as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act enables more families to afford services?

3. How can COO and President Sandi Fenwick use strategic partnerships and alliances to benefit Boston Children's Hospital, its clients, and the community?

4. What does it mean for Boston Children's Hospital to form a strategic alliance with educational institutions?

5. What does it mean for Boston Children's Hospital to form a strategic alliance with an insurance provider like Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA)?

6. Why does Sandi Fenwick mention the Community Asthma Initiative and the Home Hydration Program? Why are these programs important from both the perspective of the Chief Operating Officer, and from the perspective of the community and all stakeholders?

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