The current state of change in healthcare reforms and women’s health legislation is challenging in nature. This is because there are several factors that do not easily change though health care demands changes in order to meet the needs of patients, and especially women who are mostly disadvantaged. Health care change that addresses women’s concern has a lot and benefits to them in one way or another.
During this 21st century era, there is a need for change in health care delivery in various organizations. Apparently, there major factors that had affected change and reforms in health care for a long period of time.
If this organization will not consider these factors and act accordingly, it will never experience positive reforms both currently and in future. This paper explores the healthcare change that has taken place in my organization recently.
According to Halvorson (2007), there are about four major factors that made it cumbersome for health care to be reformed fully in the last few decades. First, there is unfair allocation of care costs. The second factor is weak delivery process. Thirdly, the impact of financial incentives affects health care in a negative way.
Lastly, health care fail to apply systems thinking in the career. These factors are basic realities and failure to reconsider them can result into dilemma in heath care and women’s health in any given organization. In this case, health care plan in my organization had failed to consider these factors and at the same time was not ready to embrace organizational change of any nature.
Let us consider women’s health in general. It is imperative to note that women still face numerous intricacies in health care deliveries. Many of them lack adequate health care insurance and generally do not have a good quality life irrespective of living long, they are sufferers of personal and collective cruelty and unfairness (Alexander et al., 2009).
It is against this backdrop that these factors that my organization saw it necessary to inject relevant change in healthcare. It is imperative to initiate change in order to improve health care and its facilities. Notably, initiating change will meet current demands of reforms in health care.
Proper assessment of the organization was necessary before eventually embarking on the process of change. For instance, changing the model of formulating policies as well as exploring ways to maintain available finances was found to be integral in the health care reform process in my organization.
The current state of change in my organization which is mostly touching on the area of women’s health is indeed a major breakthrough. It is worth noting that the organization lacks the necessary machinery to bring drastic changes in managing prevailing problems in health care and especially health care concerns on women.
Some of the stumbling blocks include gender inequality in health care, low income among women as well as few trained and professional women in the organization. Consequently, women workers are more but only a few are professional. Worse still, those who are professional are discriminated.
This is an example of a case in which organizational change has sometimes been resisted. Resistance exists because the organization fails to realize that women are more in terms of numbers but are discriminated when offering fringe benefits in healthcare.
There are typical examples that demonstrate how the organization had failed to initiate organizational change. It had failed to change in several areas such as delivery system, financing women’s health and making policies that will be able to meet women’s problems (Stanfield, Cross & Hui, 2009).
The unmet needs in health care and women’s health care are as the result of these factors which seem to stay irrespective of what is expected in the organization. The policies made in health care do not consider how to address the way in which provisions can be made to finance women’s health.
The delivery systems do not have sufficient money. In this case, delivery systems demands drastic change in order to improve the services in health care and women’s health.
It is paramount to make some recommendations concerning the current research regarding change in health care organizations. First, there is a need to look for concrete solutions to make policies that will finance every health care delivery in various organizations. Finances will help to make sufficient health care treatment for all patients including neglected women.
Those in management should look for ways on how to enhance health coverage to patients. The current research shows that many patients go home without full treatment due to minimal monetary from their places of work.
As a matter of fact, the women’s health act has come in handy with the current healthcare change in this organization. This legislation is expected to offer special health care packages for women who work in this organization. It is recommendable to consider the need for improving research and delivery of services.
Currently, the organization has not invested much on research on essential health issues that can bring positive reforms. However, it has been operating under poor delivery of services. This trend needs a drastic change. Notably, educating managerial leaders on how to offer better services will help to curb this problem. However, change and reforms in healthcare delivery are unavoidable in this organization.
References
Alexander, L, LaRosa, J, Bader, H, Alexander, W & Garfield, S. (2009). New Dimensions in Women’s Health. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Halvorson, G. (2007). Health Care Reform Now!: A Prescription for Change. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons.
Stanfield, P., Cross, N. & Hui, Y. (2009). Introduction to the Health Professions. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.