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SWOT ANALYSIS
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
John Hopkins Hospital
John Hopkins hospital was founded in 1889 by John Hopkins.
Being highly ranked hospital in the world, It comprises of around 30,000 employees.
Its accomplishments such as restriction of enzymes led to the introduction of genetic engineering industry.
It was the top ranked U.S. hospital for approximately 21 years.
The hospital has both adult and children specialists who are best ranked in the world.
Massachusetts General Hospital
It is the forth largest hospital in the United States with approximately 25,000 employees.
Being founded in 1811, Massachusetts General Hospital is the 3rd oldest general hospital in the world.
It is known for its early development of computer software systems used in the medical field such as MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multiprogramming System) mostly used for storing records of their patients and billing.
Availability of large facilities help in making analysis for large facilities
John Hopkins SWOT DIAGRAM
Strengths
Hopkins hospital has best services for their patients. It is recognized medical center with highest quality medical providers.
Hopkins Hospital is equipped with resources for research and treatment facilities
Also, it has both adult and child facilities catering to the needs of the different age groups as each needs different treatment and care
Weaknesses
Management is centralized and therefore exchange of ideas is not possible
Treatment services are not affordable to all people. The poor and middle class may not afford quality healthcare services.
The size of hospital and population of patients in the hospital create congestion thus low speed in service provision.
Opportunities
With increased population in hospitals, opportunities are created for creation of accommodation facilities
Medical practitioners have opportunities of learning from the hospitals since labor is highly required
Research can be made easily due to availability of hospital equipment
Threats
Patient’s safety is not guaranteed due to high population in hospitals
Inability to provide services on time may lead to high number of deaths.
Healthcare competition may also affect services of Hopkins Hospital since patients require quality healthcare facilities.
Massachusetts General Hospital SWOT diagram
Strengths
Massachusetts general hospital has quality and efficiency health service provision.
security of patients in hospital in guaranteed.
Availability of qualified personnel in the hospital thus quality medical services
Weaknesses
May face a challenge in communication due to competition in the market since most hospitals use social media in advertising their services.
Massachusetts General Hospital has poor coordination of patients scheduling due to high patient population
opportunities
Being a research center, Massachusetts General hospital provides an opportunity for medical students to practice medicine.
Being a medical school, it prepares student’s more in practical work than theoretical.
Threats
Poor branding has led to decrease of patient numbers thus patients move to other hospitals.
Restriction from healthcare policy department prohibit acquisition of quality services
Comparing the SWOTS
Availability of qualified personnel for patient healthcare provision.
Teaching and referral facilities enable medical practitioners equip themselves with quality service provision.
Availability of labor due to their locations within universities.
Both hospitals face competition from other hospitals such as hospitals with a small number of patients.
Decentralized management system may be a channel for poor quality working since management may bot be strict for both hospitals.
Factors that affect the hospitals environments
An increased number of patients in treatment facilities with limited service provider is a big challenge. May be straining due to limited finances to expand service provision.
Mismanagement may also be affecting operations in the hospital due to high number of patients and limited service providers.
Technology may not feature well due to high demand of healthcare service demand.
External business environment may also affect healthcare service provisions such as competition from other healthcare centers.
Enhancing strengths and minimizing the weaknesses
Since both hospitals have skilled and qualified personnel, hospital management ought to give services such as training the health service providers on dealing with emergencies.
The hospitals should increase the number of healthcare providers in the hospitals
Controlling outflow and inflow of patients to the hospitals will reduce congestion and better means of providing healthcare to all patients.
Service provision can be brought on assessment to gauge whether competitors have service methods similar to them in order to get other means of facing the competition.
Maximizing on the opportunities and overcoming threats
Location of both hospitals near schools can easily maximize use of students in helping in service provision as they learn their coursework.
Provision of adequate labor from interns of students who can help when there is an emergency. .
Getting people informed on their services and the universities to work out in getting welfare of hospitals known.
Proper set-up of personnel and management of equipment as well as continuous check up on functionality of the hospital equipment.
Recommendations to Stakeholders
These two hospitals have strengths such as good patient flow, trained and skilled personnel, up to date records and billing systems.
They however have weaknesses in asserting their brands in the market and also a weak management structure.
A recommendation to the two hospitals is to definitely make sure that they have up to date biking system.s and record systems to improve efficiency of their patient flow.
Another recommendation is to provide training to its personnel especially on equipment use, current trends and incorporating of new treatments.
References
Jackson, C. (2011). Workplace Learning in Health and Social Care: A Student's Guide. UK. Open University Press.
Schemers, G. (2016). Strategizing National Health in.the 21st Century: A Handbook.World Health Organization.
