Satellite Clinic Case Study

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The challenges discussed must be overcome and recommendations for solutions for ensuring success of expansion with a satellite clinic. Strategies. Increasing the availability of care for the community to focus healthy lifestyles, providing job security for employees and sustained viability for investors is the goal of PMH with the satellite clinic. Recent healthcare reforms provide PMH with several opportunities to expand, with the ACA increasing the number of ensured patients, which will increase payments (Bradley, Gandhi, Neumark, Garland, & Retchin, 2012). The SWOT identified two major threats facing PMH is loss of key staff and government policy changes, including MACRA, resulting in reduced reimbursements. With PMH currently understaffed …show more content…

A very value-adding viable strategy for rural healthcare organizations, including PMH, is the use of Telehealth to increase access for patients (Weinstein, et al., 2014). Telehealth technologies include videoconferencing, remote patient monitoring and mhealth (mobile health) applications to drive volume by offering better patient access to healthcare to provide quality care and attract providers and staff to PMH. This will also help with compliance to reforms requiring upgrades to IT infrastructures. Tele-health technologies will allow PMH to connect with other providers for consultations on patients, relieve providers and staff when overwhelmed with patients, and enable providers to remotely connect with patients (Mueller, Potter, MacKinney, & Ward, …show more content…

After conducting an analysis and research on PMH, the business environment, and potential challenges the options for addressing the obstacles for feasibility of a satellite clinic were addressed. The challenges can be overcome with strategic a plans, which makes this projected clinic feasible. Plans for both short and long-term implementation need to be addressed, as well as benchmarks to prove the benefits of the satellite clinic in Pocahontas County. The study recommends the expansion of the satellite clinic for PMH to remain competitive, maintain market share, and provide adequate patient access for the community within a reasonable drive. The study reviewed the business environmental challenges, a market analysis, and a SWOT analysis, which suggests that Pocahontas Memorial Hospital partner with an academic medical institution to increase future new hires for healthcare professionals, overcoming one of the biggest challenges for rural healthcare

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