Dignity Health's Readiness in Providing High-Quality Healthcare Services

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Dignity Health was founded in 1986. Indeed, it is the 5th largest healthcare system in the United States of America (USA), which is headquartered in San Francisco. Dignity Health has over 60,000 staff and nurses who deliver high-quality services to different communities across 21 states in the USA (Dignityhealth.org, 2022). The healthcare system is committed to delivering high-quality, affordable, and compassionate medical services for all individuals. Dignity Health creates an environment that meets every patient’s spiritual, mental, and physical needs. In addition, the conducive environment fosters the staff's well-being such that they are ready to serve in different places. The paper assesses the readiness of Dignity Health in meeting the healthcare needs of citizens in the next decade.
Dignity Health is among the largest healthcare organizations in the USA. Notably, it operates as a not-for-profit company and offers various medical services. They include ambulatory, cancer treatment, home health, surgery, emergency care, wound healing, and imaging services. Dignity Health emphasizes innovation, teamwork, advocacy, compassion, action, and faith to keep people healthy and happy (Dignityhealth.org, 2022). Executive leaders of this hospital come together to make primary decisions affecting the healthcare system and the distinctive communities they serve. Dignity Health perceives health as comprising more than the absence of illnesses. That is why the network of this health organization prioritizes meeting the mental, social, physical, and spiritual needs of each patient it serves. Lloyd Dean, the former chief executive officer (CEO) of Dignity Health, said that the hospital listens to everyone, celebrates individuals’ differences, and embraces shared humanity in healing different communities (Dignityhealth.org, 2022). The hospital has been operating for over a century, and it has a renowned and state of art research facility focused on making the latest medical advances, treatment and procedures, and technology to ensure that many individuals from distinctive communities can benefit from it.
Dignity Health has shown its readiness in providing high-quality healthcare services now and in the future. In particular, it has incorporated relevant technologies in various aspects of its operations. Technology-based systems, such as telemedicine, have become crucial in medical settings and significantly determine the quality of patient care offered by caregivers (Bagot et al., 2020). Dignity Health is among the first hospitals to implement telehealth. Besides, healthcare facilities that will not incorporate technologies in their daily operations are likely to be out of business in the next decade. For instance, connected care facilitates real-time service delivery through secure electronic communication and remote patient monitoring (Dignityhealth.org, 2022). Telehealth also allows patients to keep in touch with healthcare providers since it offers a variety of electronic communication mediums. As such, it increases the accessibility of quality medical services, reduces costs for phys...