Strategic planning in The Memorial Hospital

Strategic planning is essential for successful health care organizations. Alignment between organizational strategic plans and human resource strategic plans is crucial to effectiveness. When developing organizational plans to address expansion or new services, for example, organizations must be sure to develop human resource plans that support the organizational strategy, as the key to changing organizational direction is through human resource planning. For this Discussion, you examine the following scenario and address questions related to human resource strategic planning. Questions such as How will staffing, compensation, employee relations, training, and performance management need to be accounted for differently in the HR plan? Scenario: The Memorial Hospital is a community-based hospital in an urban area plans to expand its patient care delivery model from focusing extensively on inpatient care to becoming a leader in ambulatory care. The mission of Memorial Healthcare is serving humanity by providing exceptional and cost-effective health care accessible to all. Furthermore, the vision is for Memorial Hospital to be a magnet-status health care provider, continually raising the standards of performance excellence and advancing the health status of the community. In doing so, Memorial Hospital acknowledges its values of compassionate service, ownership/pride, privacy, safety, accountability, teamwork, attitude, appearance, communication, and fun. Current state: -300-bed hospital -1,000 employees -Limited ambulatory focus, which is primarily supported by free-standing independent physician practices -Declining revenues from inpatient admissions -Considering closing as many as 100 beds, as it transitions from an inpatient focused organization to an outpatient To prepare for this Discussion: Reflect on the scenario and discussing how you would respond to the question. Be sure to approach the question from the perspective of an administrator developing a human resource strategic plan for the hospital in the provided scenario.