Unit 3 Assignment 2 Strategic Planning Key Assessment CLO#3

HI470 Health Information Management Strategic Planning

Unit 3 Assignment 2 Strategic Planning Key Assessment CLO#3 Instructions: You are the director of the HIM department for an acute care facility. Recently, your hospital has merged with another acute care facility. The HIM director of the other facility has stated that she is going to retire and will not be helping or taking part in the merger. Therefore, the Executive Board has placed you in charge of merging the two HIM departments. Both facilities have hybrid records which use the same systems. IT will be merging all of the information contained in both systems into a single system.

• Using benchmarking standards, create a step-by-step strategic plan to merge the two departments. Be sure to include the order of merger and number of employees needed for each area. Identify areas that are over/understaffed, areas needing training, and any other issues that may arise during the merger. Be sure that this is written as a step-by- step plan. Provided below are the statistics for both departments.

Hospital #1 Hospital #2

Number of IP discharges per day 350 75

Number of SDS discharges per day 350 225

Number of ED discharges per day 700 500

Number of clinic visits per day 0 1000

Number of Coding Managers 3 1

Number of IP coders 14 2

Number of SDS coders 35 25

Number of ER coders 35 30

Number of clinic coders 0 6

Research study clerks 5 0

Cancer Register 1 1

Core Measures Analysts 3 0

Operations Managers 3 1

Number of ROI requests per day 700 150

Number of ROI clerks 35 1

Number of deficiency analysts 5 7

Number of transcriptionists 1 2

Number of transcribe lines per day 800 1600

Number of scanners 5 7

Number of quality reviewers 5 7

Number of Coding auditors 5 7

Number of CDI reviewers 5 7

Number of Data analysts 5 7

CAC Analysts 0 7