Shouldice Hospitals Ltd.
Essay title: Shouldice Hospitals Ltd.
SHOULDICE HOSPITAL LIMITED
The problem under analysis is how to best increase the hospital’s capacity to serve more patients while at the same time maintaining control over quality of service delivered as well as sustaining existing high levels of employee and patient (customer) satisfaction.
SWOT analysis
Strengths
Unique and defined Surgical procedure (could not be varied)
Facility that encourages movement
Up to date equipment
Less time taken (time for operation as well as for recovery is lower than industry average)
Educated and experienced and efficient surgeons (perform 600 or more operations in a yr while industry average is 25-50 ops/yr)
Lower nurse-to-patient ratio required which reduces costs
Efficient, good quality and mostly uniform service
Huge demands
Pay scale of staff higher than union scale of comparable jobs in the area
Unique training in administration which allows switching work amongst secretaries
Reasonable rates***
Weaknesses
High backlogs of scheduled operations
Limited beds
Services are not patented
Opportunities
Diversification at other locations into other specialties with similar opportunities
Establish another hospital in/outside Canada
Add to capacity
Better advertising
Threats
Competitors (using the Shouldice name )
*** IN SHOULDICE
charge for typical operation with 4days stay = $111
surgical fee for primary inguinal operation = $450
fee for assistant surgeon = $60
general anesthetic (if required) = $75
TOTAL = $ 696