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Health Organization Banner Health is a non-profit health care company, operating in 23 states. Its facilities provide a number of different types of care. Banner is based in Phoenix, and Arizona is home to a large portion of the company's operations. Over the course of the next decade, the baby boom generation will continue to enter its senior years something that will challenge the health care industry nationwide. The challenge will especially be felt in a state like Arizona, where many people go to retire. Banner's strategic objectives include lowering costs, providing high quality care and an excellent patient experience ("About Us," 2015). Banner has more than 3000 providers and the network has over 400,000 members.

Banner's vision incorporates the need to handle the growing population of elderly, with their many health needs. Banner has, for example, built out a large facility in Boulder, CO, as a means of not only capturing that market but acting as a draw for longer-term patients perhaps, as the Boulder market is oversaturated with hospital beds. The company has also sought to fill beds by establishing a partnership with Kaiser Permanente (Armbriter, 2012). Banner has also entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with Cerner that will help it to innovate more, lower costs and better position itself to meet market needs for years to come (Monegain, 2015).

From a human resources perspective, the company has faced the same struggles that many health providers have with respect to the chronic nursing shortage. The company has worked with various agencies and levels of government proactively to try to enhance workforces in states where the shortages are most acute (Banner Health, 2012). The good news for Banner is that for the states in which it operates, only California is thought to have an acute nursing shortage (Tuten, 2012).

Overall Banner Health appears to be ready for the next ten years. There may still...

Moreover, the company has undertaken a number of strategic partnerships in recent years, and these will help it to be in a better strategic position. The partnership include focuses on innovation and new facilities. That Banner is expanding is evidence that the company has a long-run strategic plan, one that enables them to target strong growth markets, and come in with a focused market entry strategy, like it has to win business in Boulder.
Banner's commit to patient satisfaction is one of its core objectives. One of the realities of health care is that if the company does not place precedence on patient satisfaction then it is unlikely to achieve it. That Banner has built patient satisfaction into its core objectives helps to orient that people within the organization towards that goal. Moreover Banner is more likely to be held accountable to this objective, given that they have publicly stated a commitment to ensuring patient satisfaction. There are likely internal metrics that the company has to hold its managers and other staff members accountable for patient satisfaction issues.

Banner is also managing its growth and resources. As noted, it has built a new facility in Boulder, but overall is growing relatively slowly. When it does grow, this growth has frequently taken the form of strategic partnerships. These partnership allows Banner to grow and make strategic changes to its organization without as much capital outlay as would be required if the company attempted to strike out on its own. Despite the fact that Banner operates in a number of Western states, it is ultimately not that large a company; partnerships and strategic alliances allow it to make the…

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"About Us" (2015). Banner Health Network. Retrieved November 17, 2015 from https://www.bannerhealthnetwork.com/about/who

Armbrister, M. (2012). Just what is Banner Health planning? Biz West. Retrieved November 17, 2015 from http://bizwest.com/just-what-is-banner-health-planning/

Banner Health (2012). Five community organizations will share $4.9 million grant to enhance Arizona's health care workforce PR News Wire. Retrieved November 17, 2015 from http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/five-community-organizations-will-share-49-million-grant-to-enhance-arizonas-health-care-workforce-159027625.html

Monegain, B. (2015). Banner Health, Cerner tackle big change. Health Care IT News Retrieved November 17, 2015 from http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/banner-health-cerner-take-big-change
Tuten, T. (2012). Which states will need nurses the most in 2013? Soliant Health. Retrieved November 17, 2015 from http://blog.soliant.com/careers-in-healthcare/which-states-will-need-nurses-most-in-2013/
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