Glens Falls Hospital Strengths And Weaknesses

Introduction:
It is important for all businesses to understand and observe their strengths and weaknesses. How the organization adapts and changes to fix it’s weaknesses determines the overall success of the business. The Glens Falls Hospital, like all organizations, has a variety of good and bad qualities. Geographically, the Glens Falls Hospital is the largest hospital facility from Albany, New York to Montreal, Canada (About Glens Falls Hospital, 2018). They offer 26 different hospital services ranging from sleep disorders to wound healing, and snuggerys. With such a large geographic reach, the different hospital services are very useful for their organization. Since 2017, the Glens Falls Hospital has hired two new board members. It is important

This among many other things, sets the Glens Falls Hospital apart from its surrounding competition.

Strengths and Weaknesses: Recently, it has been awarded a 20 million dollar grant from New York State, the largest grant in hospital history. This grant is to fund a medical village and allows Glens Falls Hospital a vast amount of opportunity for the expansion of its medical empire. From a community standpoint, as a non-profit organization, Glens Falls Hospital honors and commits to helping anybody in need of medical care, regardless of their financial status. This sets the organization apart from competing healthcare facilities in the area. For those without insurance, they are offer a mail in form which delivers financial assistance anywhere from 20% to 100% of the cost of their treatment, based on their income. Although I consider this a strength, it can also be viewed as a weakness. Each year the Glens Falls Hospital gives treatments knowing they will never be reimbursed for doing so. This creates a financial burden for the hospital. Another downfall of the Glens Falls

The new medical village will increase the amount of patients able to be seen and treated in a positive way. It also ensures an increase in technology development. The Glens Falls Hospital being a non-profit organization, relies also on donations from the community on top of grants from the state of New York. It hosts walks, runs, and other events in order to continue receiving these benefits and does so successfully, to say the least. However, if the economy were to shift, this has a direct impact on the flow of donations the hospital receives, which is essentially out of their control. The Glens Falls Hospital has affiliations with other health organizations in the community such as Hudson Headwaters. The ability to coexist with competing organizations is a true test of a successful organization. The Albany Medical Center is a large threat to the Glens Falls Hospital. The Albany Medical Center offers more treatment options and is an overall larger facility. I would estimate at least once a day, a patient from the emergency room in the Glens Falls Hospital is transferred to the Albany Medical Center due to the hospital being unable to properly treat the patient. It is important for the Glens Falls Hospital to understand when it is appropriate to transfer a patient. The Glens Falls Hospital has noted which patient types are often transferred and