Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Tracking Project
Strategic and Financial Information Collected During Hospital Site Visits
Strategic Information to be Collected on Behalf of UNC at the Hospital Level
Desired Respondent(s): The hospital CEO.
Major Goals: The major goals of the hospital strategy study are to identify:
? If the organization has a formal strategic plan.
? The hospital's major problems and strategic initiatives. Specifically, in regard to their strategic initiatives we are interested in:
o What they were
o If they are concentrated in one area or if they are spread across the main categories of the Balanced Scorecard: financial, stakeholder, business processes, and infrastructure and innovation
o If they tend to concentrate on one or more of the following areas: finance, clinical services, staffing, external relations or management practices
o Estimates of the size ($) of the impact during the first year of implementation and forecasted over five years.
Some of the information we need will have been collected on the pre-sitevisit survey. Section B-2 identifies whether or not they have a strategic plan, and if so, its composition. Section B-1 of the pre-sitevisit survey asks the CAHs to identify their major strengths and problem areas as well as where major initiatives are taking place. Hopefully this later information will be useful in answering the questions on the site survey instrument.
Our primary area of interest in the site survey is to identify the hospital's major problems and strategic initiatives, and related information. We used the term "major" instead of strat ...