Strategic Implementation Phase

Once a health care organization has completed their strategic planning phase, it is time for them to move to the strategic implementation phase. This phase is a timely process made in steps for an organization to follow to ultimately achieve its goals and mission (Ginter, P. M., Duncan, J. W., & Swayne, L. E., (2013). There can be many bumps in the road or barriers during the implementation phase. For today, we will be discussing the scenario of a growing primary care practice adding a second location. The new location will be in a busy shopping center that is centrally located in the health care organization’s target area. During the planning phase, the organization and its partners determined the new location would be opened within 6 month of implementation. However, the operations manager, Mary Jones, was five months into the implementation with no end in sight and decided to relieve herself from the organization. Now it is our task as the outside consultant to find were things have gone wrong and what steps should be taken next. A portion of strategic planning is scheduling and strategizing the implementation of a project. As part of that planning, there are major decisions that must be made. A few of those many decisions are creating a realistic timeframe, creating and acknowledging

Setting unrealistic time goals can lead to the impression or the reality of a project failing. In this scenario, allowing for only six months for a whole health care facility to be built and running might have been an unrealistic expectation. There are many things that must be done for a health care facility to proclaimed as operable. A healthcare facility must have space, staff members, technology, medical supplies and equipment, licenses, inspections, and much more before it can be