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Integration in Health Organisations
Choose 2 ways healthcare organizations integrate consolidate define give a healthcare type integration chose. As shown 2nd slide PowerPoint Presentation, types integrations: acquisition, merger, joint venture, alliance, network, virtual organization.
Integration in health organizations
Integration among healthcare providers is a very common practice among hospitals nowadays. It is gaining popularity because of the urge; both the hospitals and its customers have to offer and are given quality health care services within a given health Centre. Because of this high competition in service delivery, smaller hospitals are forced to integrate in order to meet the people's expectation (Shi, 2008).
Types of health care integrations
Acquisitions, this is where a health care delivery organization expands its core services or products. This form of integration is essentially to increase the geographical distribution or coverage of the organization since they offer the same services or to some cases, they substitute the already existing services. Acquisition may consist...
An example includes; the Allegheny health, education, and research foundation in Pittsburgh (Wolper, 2011).
Joint ventures among healthcare organization is this integration which link services at different stages in the production process of health. Services, which are likely, to be offered under joint ventures include acute care, preventive services, primary care and post-acute service delivery around a hospital. Most large hospitals are more familiar with this integration in sections such as the outpatient department because this gives them large slices of patient market especially for direct contracting with self-insured employers. An example of a joint venture is that between the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Women's Hospital (Wolper, 2011).
Healthcare administrators should learn that merging healthcare is not the solution for health care organizations which are struggling to stay afloat since. This is because, when poorly managed, some of the members may offer substandard services, which will pull, down those…
References
Shi, L., & Singh, D.A. (2008). Delivering health care in America: a systems approach: Jones and Bartlett.
Wolper, L.F. (2011). Health care administration: managing organized delivery systems: Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
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