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Advent-Health SWOT Analysis

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Institution
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Adventist Health System - SWOT Analysis

Introduction

Advent-Health formerly known as Adventist Health System (AHS) was founded in 1973 and it is

headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Florida. AHS is a faith-based and a non-profit health care

system which also operates satellite facilities across other nine states in United States. Currently,

Advent-Health represents one of the largest non-profit establishments made by protestant health

care providers. As of the start of this year (2019), the hospital has more than 45 hospital

campuses and certified beds which were in excess of 8,200 across the states it has established

healthcare facilities. AHS houses facilities such as urgent care centers, home health, hospice

agencies, and skilled nursing facilities (AHS, 2019). Advent-Health employs latest high-tech

innovations and clinical research to serves more than 5 million patients who visit their facilities

annually. For instance, Advent-Health received the HealthCare’s Most Wired award in 2013 &

2014 as it had met the required IT threshold in its four main areas (infrastructure, business &

administrative management, quality and safety measures, and clinical integration). Further, AHS

received Gallup Great Workplace Award for 5 consecutive years (2011-2015) for having an

exemplary workplace culture (AHS, 2019). Consequently, the main objective of this report will be

to analyze Advent-Health by using SWOT analysis.

Advent Health SWOT Analysis

Strengths Weaknesses

 Visionary leadership which is anchored  Limited funding opportunities since the

on principles of gospel, faith, love, AHS mainly relies on funds from the
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hope, and compassion for humanity. Church or donors as it operates as a

Being a nonprofit organization, nonprofit.

Advent-Health mainly focuses  No profits: Advent-Health being

community wellbeing. nonprofit is not supposed generate any

 Robust healthcare research programs. income as it mainly offers its services

 Exemplary working environment which at subsidized prices.

provides a good climate for employee  Limited opportunities to invest as they

engagement. are supposed to focus on their main

 Exempted from paying different taxes. objectives.

 Availability of high tech health care  Mainly relies on interns who might are

equipment in their four main areas not experienced in many of its satellite

identified above. hospitals as nurses.

 High qualified nurses and clinical  Advent-Health has insufficient

officers with public health expertise. accountability regarding medical errors.

 Have wide coverage facilities which are  Administrative and policy deficiencies.

equipped with modern healthcare  Low investment in research &

infrastructures. development especially for emerging

 Strong informal and formal illnesses.

communication channels within the  Advent-Health has opened many

advent healthcare systems. satellite hospitals which make it

 Advent-Health has a strong brand name difficult to regulate matters relating to

which has been shaped by its dedicated quality of service.

employees. For instance, several  Lack of visibility and transparency

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departments and employees have especially on inappropriate behaviors of

received awards for their selflessness in the staffs.

supporting their service members in  Understaffed departments and high

their care teams. workload on satellite hospitals which

 Health care training and development increases avenues for trial and error

in its Adventist university of health towards problem solving.

sciences.  Poor services delivery as a result of

 Large certified bed capacity. inadequate funding.

 Low staff salaries as compared to for

profit institutions and therefore services

delivery maybe poor as professions

hired maybe not well trained

Opportunities Threats

 Strong relationships which can enhance  Government healthcare institutions

alliances with governmental and private which are supported by various

healthcare providers. healthcare programs such as Medicaid

 Satellite healthcare facilities help to and Veterans’ Health Administration

serve larger population and also (VHA) which provides high quality

markets healthcare facilities. services at a lower cost or none.

 Can easily diversify and specialize  Rising costs of operations provides an

different branches to cater for particular imminent threats to quality assurance

segments. and delivery of services as resources

 Through its training facilities, the are also hard to come by.
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hospital can train its staffs and ensure  Shift to outpatient sites of care: these

that they are well equipped for the sites such as ASCs Urgent Care and

work. Primary Care offer outpatient services

 Advent-Health can also diversify its at low-cost and this is preferred by

services to other regions like African many due to their accessibility.

countries and this can help the  Loss of key staffs to the well-paying

organization solicit for funds and grants private sector.

from international bodies such as  Economic and market demand shifts

USAID. threatens the survival of non-profits.

 Through its financial strength and well-  Evolving government regulations and

wishers goodwill Advent-Health can tax reforms.

increase its reach in other states in US.  Management of the organization as it

 Being a faith-based institution, Advent- continues to grow.

Health can collaborate with other

likeminded religion groups to raise

funds for establishing new healthcare

facilities such as hospice.

 Advent-Health can diversify its

products portfolio and use its brand

name to manufacture other products

such as pharmaceuticals for healthcare

use.

 Advent-Health can also venture in

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production of training facilities and

costumes still using its name and sell

them to the communities it serves to

enable them lead healthy lives.

(AdventHealth, 2019; Florida Hospital, 2018.

Advent-Health Financial Resources

Advent-Health mainly gets its financial resources from the bills paid by the patients when they

are treated in their facilities. Patients are required to pay for services rendered at the time of

service for any amount not covered by insurance. Individuals without insurance, for instance are

required to pay amount due upon discharge (AdventHealth, 2019). Another important source of

Advent-Health is through donations, grants, Bequests, gift annuities and other acts of generosity

from different parties around the community. Advent-Health also operates different projects

through which it generates income. One of the well-known projects operated by the hospital is

the advent health university which offers different health sciences courses. However, Advent-

Health also provides financial assistance for the needy in the community especially the ones who

cannot be able to raise hospital bills (AHU, 2019). In addition, Advent-Health also provides grants

and charities to different community based programs aimed at benefiting the most vulnerable in

the society. For example, Advent-Health sent 273 pallets of aid to Puerto Rico after a devastating

Hurricane destroyed homes and maimed many individuals.

Turning Threats to opportunities

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In response to government healthcare sponsored institutions Advent-Health should come-up with

programs which will benefit all members of the society through quick and quality services.

Advent-Health should use available resources wisely to reduce costs of operation and ensure that issues

of quality assurance are well addressed and that qualified staffs are deployed in offering different

services in the hospital facilities.

Advent-Health should remunerate its employees well by offering them competitive wages and salaries

so that they can be able to retain them for longer periods. Moreover, the hospital management should

ensure that employees are given good working conditions by ensuring that everybody is given

reasonable workload and hours worked overtime are paid. Additional healthcare practitioners should be

recruited to bolster service deliver in satellite institutions.

Advent-Health should also pay attention to different government regulations so that it complies with

them to ensure that it does not get on the wrong side of the law. This will prevent the organization

from getting negative publicity as Nonprofits are always under public scrutiny.

New structures of management should be developed to help in decision making and management of

service delivery different states. Every state should have its own manager who will coordinate all

activities of health facilities in his/her jurisdiction.

Turning weakness into strengths

Advent should seek other income generating avenues other than grants from church and donation from

other well-wishers. The institution should try to exploit different opportunities discussed above to

provide an alternative way of generating funds.

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Although there are limited avenues for investments due to regulations governing nonprofits

organizations, Advent-Health should broaden its existing investments to ensure it can be able to

capitalize on its name brand to generate more income as possible.

Advent-Health should be more accountable and transparent in reporting different aspects and issues

emanating from their activities.

Advent should also increase their research and development funding especially in their institutions of

higher learning so that they can come up with new products which are important in health service

delivery.

Conclusion

The main objective of this report was to evaluate Advent-Health performance by using SWOT analysis.

One of the main different organizational strengths were identified with robust system of health care,

good working conditions and availability of high tech health care equipment’s being the most important

strengths depicted by the faith –based healthcare institution. The report went also identified

weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing the hospital. Lastly, the report discussed on different ways

Advent-Health can turn its threats to opportunities and weaknesses into strengths.
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References

AdventHealth. (2019). Billing and Financial Services. Retrieved from

https://www.adventhealth.com/patient-resources/billing-and-financial-services

AHS. (2019). A Leader in Whole-Person Health Care. Retrieved from https://www.adventhealth.com/

AHU. (2019). AdventHealth University. Retrieved from https://www.ahu.edu/

Florida Hospital. (2018). Retrieved from

https://www.adventhealth.com/sites/default/files/assets/hospital-finance-basics-part-1-

revenue-2013.pdf