instruction: 1. read Case Study: Practice Exercise - SMART Goals & Planning Case Study-Vincent Valley Hospital. 2. Review the course readings and videos related to SMART goals. 3. Based on the strategic and operational challenges presented in the case study, identify three goals for the hospital or the orthopedics department. You may need to make some assumptions, as the case study is very brief. That's OK----just include your assumptions. Goals and plans can be long/short-term, operational, tactical or strategic. 4. Create three SMART goals by completing the chart below. The spreadsheet is set up to wrap text, so provide complete information to demonstrate that you understand the concepts related to SMART goals and planning. 5. Once you have completed the SMART Goals spreadsheet, complete the Action Plan spreadsheet that follows. The Action Plan spreadsheet asks you to develop three action items that VVH could implement for each of your goals, in order to achieve your three goals.

I just need an example of three goals and

write the goal that you have in mind.

The benefits of achieving this goals will be...

Specific: What, exactly, do you want to accomplish? Who needs to be included? When do you want to do this? Why is this a goal?

Measurable: How can you measure progress and know if youve successfully met your goal?

Attainable: Is attaining this goal realistic with effort and commitment? Do you have the skills and resources to achieve this goal? If not, how will you get them?

Relevant: Why is this goal important to you? Why am I setting this goal now? Is it aligned with overall objectives?

Time-bound: Whats the deadline and is it realistic?

SMART GOAL Review what you have written, and craft a new goal statement based on what the answers to the previous questions have revealed. The SMART Goal shoud be 1 sentence, and include all SMART elements.

1. Review the course materials related to SMART goals and planning. 2. Read the brief case study 3. Download the SMART Goals & Planning Worksheet. Complete the worksheet for the assignment Case Study: VVH Orthopedics Vincent Valley Hospital (VVH) is a medium-sized private community hospital located in a medium-sized market in the upper Midwest. The hospital has been providing care in this market for >100 years and enjoys a generally positive reputation in the community. There are two other hospitals in the market; a larger public hospital and a smaller private specialty hospital focused on cardiac care. VVH has a large, skilled medical staff, of which more than 80% also are on staff at the public hospital. VVH is better known as a "high-touch" than a "high-tech" hospital, and they have experienced some difficulties converting over to an electronic health record (EHR) because of it. The public hospital converted to an EHR 5 years ago very successfully. VVH has a good relationship with a large multispecialty clinic in the community, where many of the local medical staff practice. VVH has operated an orthopedic center of excellence for the past three years, providing over 650 inpatient and outpatient orthopedic procedures per year. This product line has been a source of significant funding for the hospital, in both private insurance and Medicare payments. Unfortunately, this volume is declining, as 6 of the local orthopedic surgeons have developed their own ambulatory surgery center, HealthNorth, and are moving cases to this facility. The profitability of the hospital's orthopedic center is declining as the volume shrinks. VVH is also anticipating bundled Medicare payments for many of these orthopedic procedures as a result of the Affordable Care Act. VVH could improve its profitability per case if all of the steps in the care of these patients were optimized. An initial attempt to standardize some procedures and devices was not supported by the orthopedic surgeons and resulted in one surgeon refusing to operate at VVH in the future. The situation has become serious for VVH. The chief executive officer asked a number of key staff to focus on developing a plan to turn things around. The first step in this project is to perform a SWOT analysis and identify actual and potential risks to the organization. (1) Bundled Medicare payments are single payments that come to one entity, frequently a hospital, for a patient's entire episode of care. From this payment the hospital, all providers and many of the necessary services are paid. To be successful with bundled payments, hospitals and providers