1-2 Final Project Milestone One: Profile and Healthcare Need

Begin working on your final project. For your original post, provide the agency or institution profile and background (i.e., type of organization, historical information, information about growth, current or past initiatives, etc.). Your submission to the discussion forum should be one or two PowerPoint slides.

• Identify the need or opportunity within the organization and describe its impact on the organization, its purpose and target population, and its impacts on the greater healthcare environment, if any.
• How do you plan on addressing this need or opportunity?
• What is your initiative?
• Describe the policy or guideline you identified on the Health.gov website and how this information will impact your project.

In response to your peers, comment on their process for addressing the need or opportunity. Provide recommendations for implementation. Reference at least one article or the required readings to support your comments.

For additional details, please refer to the

Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric

document and the

Final Project Guidelines and Rubric

document.

    

HCM 491 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric 

Begin working on your capstone project. In a post to the course discussion forum, provide the agency or institution profile and background (i.e., type of organization, historical information, information about growth, current or past initiatives, etc.). Identify the need or opportunity within the organization and describe its impact on the organization, its purpose and target population, and its impacts on the greater healthcare environment, if any. How do you plan on addressing this need or opportunity? What is your initiative? Describe the policy or guideline you identified on the Health.gov website and how this information will impact your project. 

In response to your peers, comment on their process for addressing the need or opportunity. Provide recommendations for implementation. Reference at least one article or the required readings to support your comments. 

Specifically the following critical elements must be addressed: 

1. Profile: Provide the agency or institution profile and background (i.e., type of organization, historical information, information about growth, current or
   past initiatives, etc.).
    
2. Healthcare Need: Identify the need or opportunity within the organization and describe its impact for the organization, its purpose and target population, and impacts to the greater healthcare environment, if any. How do you plan on addressing this need or opportunity? What is your initiative?
    

Guidelines for Submission: Your submission is submitted to the discussion forum and should be one to two PowerPoint slides with any references cited in APA format. 

St. Jude Children’s Hospital

By Gisell M Levine

St Jude Health System
More than a half-century ago, entertainer Danny Thomas envisioned a hospital that would treat children regardless of race, color, creed or their family’s ability to pay. A facility where research would shine light into the darkness.
Thomas’ vision became a reality when St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened February 4, 1962. Since then, St. Jude has become one of the world’s premier pediatric research institutions. Explore the scientific milestones that have marked our progress from that day to present.
here’s only one St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the world. We’re located in Memphis, Tennessee. Our address is: 262 Danny Thomas Place Memphis, TN 38105-3678
We also have eight affiliate clinics that offer the possibility of world-class St. Jude care closer to your home.

St Jude Children Hospital Opportunity
St. Jude and over 46 of its staff members have been the recipients of numerous exemplary awards and achievements. For example, in 2010 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was named the number one children’s cancer hospital in the U.S by U.S. News & World Report
It has also been named one of the top 10 companies to work for in academia by The Scientist for 7 successive years.
Most notably, Peter C. Doherty, Ph.D., of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was co-recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work related to how the Immune system kills virus-infected cells.
The guideline on the Health.gov website is about increase patient safety, adverse drug events and health care-associated infections.

St Jude Affiliate Clinic site
St. Jude is associated with several affiliated hospitals around the nation to further its efforts beyond its own physical walls. The hospital uses its Domestic Affiliates Program to form this partnership with the other pediatric programs. This program is a network of hematology clinics, hospitals, and universities that are united under the mission of St. Jude. These sites are used as a means of referring eligible patients to St. Jude as well as a location to administer some care. Through the Domestic Affiliates Program staff at St. Jude work together and collaborate with those at the other institutions. Affiliated sites are expected to comply with standards set by St. Jude and are audited to ensure proper and quality care.
Currently the Domestic Affiliate Clinic sites include:
Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Novant Health Hemby Children’s Hospital, in Charlotte, North Carolina
Huntsville Hospital for Women&Children, in Huntsville, Alabama
Johnson City Medical Center, in Johnson City, Tennessee
St. Jude Midwest Affiliate, in Peoria, Illinois

Louisiana State University, Department of Pediatrics, in Shreveport, Louisiana
Mercy Children’s Hospital, in Springfield, Missouri
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St. Jude also works closely with Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center, also located in downtown Memphis. St. Jude patients needing certain procedures, such as brain surgery, may undergo procedures at LeBonheur Hospital. Both St. Jude and Le Bonheur are teaching hospitals affiliated with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. University of Tennessee physicians training in pediatrics, surgery, radiology, and other specialties undergo service rotations at St. Jude Hospital.
The Children’s Cancer Center of Lebanon was established in Beirut on April 12, 2002. The center is an affiliate of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and works in association with the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC)

Reference
St. Jude Facts. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Inc. Exempt Organization Select Check. Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
The National Shrine of St. Jude Shrine of st jude. claretians.org. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
Danny’s Promise Stjude.org. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
Danny Dream . Stjude.org. Retrieved 2011-01-14.