Jurnal Health Sains: p�ISSN:
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Vol. 2, No. 11, November 2021
STRATEGY IN ANTICIPATING THE HOSPITAL�S
FINANCIAL CONDITION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Viana Villamanda Jatnika,
Prastuti Soewondo, Mutia Muliawati
University
of Indonesia (UI) Depok, West Java, Indonesia
Email: [email protected], [email protected],
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ABSTRACT |
Accepted 5 November 2021 Revised 15 November 2021 Approved 25 November 2021 |
The
registration section is the front line of health service activities in health
care facilities. There are many obstacles that occur in the registration
section for various reasons. The limited workforce in the registration
section is one of the causes of these obstacles. This study aims to analyze how
many workforces needed in the medical record unit at the registration section
of the Tanjungsari Medika
Clinic based on the workload. This research is a descriptive
research with observation and interview data collection methods. This
study also uses the WISN (Workload Indicators Staffing Needs) method. WISN is
a method used to calculate labor requirements based on workload. The data sample
in this study was the number of patient visits at the Tanjungsari
Medika Clinic for the period of July 2020 - June 2021, which amounted to
21619 outpatient visits and 3332 observation patient visits. From the results
of the calculations in this study, it can be concluded that it is necessary
to add 1 more person in the medical record unit at the Tanjungsari
Medika Clinic in order to achieve quality health services with a qualified
workforce as well. |
Keywords: workload; registration; WISN |
Introduction
Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) has been
declared a world pandemic by WHO on March 2020 (World Health Organization, 2020).
COVID 19 disease is caused by the Coronavirus there is transmitted between
humans and animals. This virus and disease are known to have originated in the
city of Wuhan, China since December 2019. As of 9 June 2021, the number of
cases of COVID-19 in the world continues to increase. Based on world data, it
is found that the number of patients 174 million confirmed COVID-19 with 3,76
million deaths (Napitupulu, 2021).
Handling COVID-19 cannot be separated
from the role of the central government and government area. As stated in Law
Number 44 of 2009 about Hospitals, one of the responsibilities of local
government is to guarantee the financing of emergency services in hospitals due
to disasters and extraordinary events (Sanjoto et al., 2019).
COVID-19 is an extraordinary event that is happening in the world. This triggered
all hospitals both government and private to think hard about handling the pandemic
that occurred.
In the current condition, the
hospital functions as a venue for medical treatment and health recovery
services following with home service standards illness is urgently needed.
Public and private hospitals are required to provide optimal service to
confirmed patients so that it is expected patients recovered and there was no
wider transmission (Ramadhini, 2021).
Health financing is the amount of the
allocation of funds that must be provided by certain parties to be used in
health efforts as needed individuals, groups, and communities (Asante Antwi et al., 2021).
The financing of good health is closely related to cost control performed (Boserup et al., 2020).
Good cost control begins with the right budgeting system (Rosko et al., 2020).
As for the budget of a good hospital can be reached through the assessment of the
hospital's financial performance (Jatnika et al., 2021).
This is what will affect the financial strategy that will be taken and carried
out in the face of the pandemic.
WHO indicates that 100 million people
can become poor as a result of paying for health services and 150 million
people face difficulty paying for these health services (Obrenovic et al., 2020).
International hospitals and healthcare facilities are facing formidable
financial challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the
Association of Hospitals in America, the estimated monthly revenue decline for
hospitals and other healthcare facilities is between 50 and 202 billion dollars
(Boserup et al., 2020).
Strategy is a comprehensive plan that
shows specifically options that must be taken by someone in every possible
situation faced as well as how the organization views the outside world (Prinja & Pandav, 2020; Rasanathan & Evans, 2020).
Three strategies must be run by a financial manager, namely strategic planning,
strategic management, and strategic thinking (LoGiudice et al., 2020).
Hospital financial condition is strongly influenced by patient visits (Chamorro-Petronacci et al., 2020).
Visits of patients with non-covid-19 diseases during the pandemic decreased
compared to before the pandemic.
This affects the financial dynamics
of the hospital. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hospitals are at the forefront
of the battle against COVID-19. The �severe� financial pressures faced by many
hospitals, one of which is due to increased costs due to COVID-19 (Gandasari & Dwidienawati, 2020).
Therefore, in this systematic review, the author is interested in discussing the
hospital strategy in anticipating the hospital�s financial condition carried
out by hospitals in various countries in facing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research
Method
Table 1
PICOS
Problems (P) |
The low number of patient visits disrupts the hospital's
financial condition |
Intervention (I) |
Hospital strategies |
Comparison (C) |
- |
Outcome (O) |
Increase the number of patient visits to the hospital and
improve the hospital's financial condition |
Study (S) |
All types of a hospital-based study |
A. Eligibility Criteria
We included studies within 2020, type of
research articles published in the field of public health and hospitals related
to the COVID-19. Research articles that can be accessed in the full article
either published or unpublished, observational studies (Cross-sectional,
Case-control, Cohort) or interventional studies (Randomized Controlled Trials).
Meanwhile, we excluded studies that national and international research
articles relating to the COVID-19 non-pandemic hospital financial strategy.
B. Study
Selection
Studies were eligible for inclusion if they were
peer-reviewed English articles, published from January 1, 2020, to December 31,
2020, and were conducted in the hospital. Studies were excluded if the
published hospital strategy was not related to the COVID-19 pandemic and
article writing does not use English.�
C. Article
Screening and Data Extraction�
Literature searches are retrieved from eight
databases based on search terms and uploaded to Mendeley Reference Manager to
check for duplicates. Remove duplicates and filter the title and abstract of
the article. Those who have abstracts that meet the criteria are screened in
full text. The literature references retrieved were also screened to obtain
relevant articles. Articles obtained from these reference screenings are
classified as research through other methods in the PRISMA flowchart.
Literature search, title, abstract screening, data extraction, and quality
assessment were carried out by VV and MT under the guidance of PS.
Disagreements between authors are resolved through discussion.
D. Risk
of Bias
The risk of bias was assessed using the Risk of
Bias in Systematic Reviews (ROBIS) assessment tool from Cochrane. Studies were
judged into three criteria, i.e. low risk of bias,
high risk of bias, and unclear, based on four domains of bias. Three study7,10,11
showed a low risk of bias and another ten studies had a high risk of bias
(Table 2).�
Table 2
Risk of Bias
N o |
Study |
Types Of Bias |
|
|
Overall Risk Of Bias |
|
Study Eligibility Criteria |
Identification And Selection Of Studies |
Data Collection And Study Appraisal � |
Synthesis And Findings� |
|||
1 |
Eric, R. |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
2 |
O�Reilly -Shah |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
3 |
Kaye, et al. |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
4 |
Boserup, et al.� |
Low |
Unclear |
High |
Low |
High |
5 |
Prinja, et.al |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Unclear |
High |
6 |
Sundara raman
|
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
7 |
Wang, et al. |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
8 |
Phillips, et al. |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
9 |
Giudice 1, et all |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
10 |
Sharpe, et al. |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
11 |
Turner, et al. |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
12 |
Schneid er |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Low |
Result and Discussion
A.
Result
59 articles were identified via database search
and 11 duplicates were found and removed. After the screening of titles, abstracts,
and full-text articles, a total of nine articles were included in this review
(Figure 1 and appendix 1).
1. Study
Characteristic
All included studies used a qualitative design.
One study was conducted in the radiology unit and the rest were carried out in
hospital management regarding strategies to support an optimal health system
during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study sites varied, with most of the studies
originating from the United States (eight studies), followed by two studies
from India, two studies from China, and one study from Israel.
Figure 1
Prisma Flow Diagram
2.
Strategic of Hospital During
COVID-19 Pandemic
There are many challenges for hospitals to
survive the COVID-19 pandemic. These challenges can come from managerial and clinical
aspects. One of the problems from the managerial aspect is the unstable
financial condition of the hospital due to a decrease in patient visits. Quick
and comprehensive response in creating a hospital strategy is urgently needed
to restore financial stability which has begun to falter during the pandemic.
This systematic review aims to identify hospital strategies in anticipating the
hospital's financial condition during the pandemic. Based on several references
(see Appendix 1), there are several appropriate strategies used by several countries
to anticipate the financial condition of hospitals. These strategies have
proven to be able to repair and regenerate the hospital system that was already
running before the pandemic and restore the financial stability of the hospital.
a. ��Leadership Style Change For the COVID-19 Pandemic
Era17�19
An effective leader is a leader who can know
when to lead, can influence followers to support the interests of the
organization, can provide direction, can set goals to answer the challenges
being faced, and is responsible for achieving these goals, and can influence
change for continuous improvement. The leadership factors needed in dealing
with a pandemic include leaders who are brave and care about the needs of
others, have a good communication strategy so that they can carry out effective
communication in a simple, empathetic, directed, and sustainable manner, have
mutual respect, and have the awareness to change and be able to respond to changes
quickly accompanied by making the best decisions for the organization.
Clinical leaders in a hospital are required to
be able to improve the quality of health services and be oriented to patient
recovery. Improving the quality of service, takes a good work culture,
teamwork, good ability or skill in leading and managing the team so that the
goals can be achieved. These clinical leaders can be doctors and nurses. A
nursing manager must be able to lead nurses to be able to follow the changes that
occur during a pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic that has occurred in the
world illustrates a phenomenon of change that occurs rapidly and tends to be
unpredictable. This is following with several terms that are often used, namely
Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. The pandemic incident that
occurred shocked all related countries in the field of health services, especially
hospitals. In a pandemic situation, leaders are required to have a quick
response in making decisions so that they have a clear long-term vision
regarding the handling of COVID-19. The leadership that must be possessed by
each hospital can be divided into 2, namely leadership from the managerial
aspect and the clinical aspect. Both must go hand in hand so that the hospital's
vision and mission can still be achieved even during a pandemic. But there are
still many in reality, hospitals have not been able to respond to this pandemic
quickly so that it affects hospital operations.
Leadership from a good managerial aspect in
responding to the COVID-19 pandemic must fulfill several things including
having high accountability, being able to create a comfortable work culture,
forming multidisciplinary work teams, forming new systems thinking related to
pandemics, and implementing continuous organizational learning. Meanwhile,
leadership from the clinical aspect must be able to have the right way to include
patient interests in every policy, be able to carry out continuous clinical
audits, continuously improve clinical effectiveness, be able to make clinical
risk management related to COVID-19, continue to prioritize professional
education and development of all clinical staff. sustainably.
According to (Kotler & Keller, 2012),
a manager must be able to have several attitudes in dealing with the COVID-19
pandemic, including:
1. Knowing
and developing nursing care for COVID-19 patients.
2. Knowing
and studying the characteristics of the SARS COV-2 virus to be able to apply it
in prevention and in serving patients.
3. Know
and learn critical reasoning related to the care of COVID-19 patients.
4. Outline
and be aware of isolation procedures throughout the patient's health care
system in hospitals starting from health workers, patients, and patient�s
families.
5. Have
Ownership of Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) at various hospital
levels. QSEN competencies in patient care, teamwork, and collaboration,
practice-based, quality improvement, and patient safety.
6. Able
to analyze the health system that is running and undergoing changes in the
hospital according to the standards of WHO, CDC, State, Joint Commission,
Universities and Schools of Nursing.
7. Must
be able to determine professional standards that will be adhered to at all
levels of the hospital to reduce the spread of COVID-19 infection in hospitals.
8. Quick,
precise, and comprehensive decision-making.
9. Have
a high sense of responsibility in complying with the quality and safety measures
that have been made so that they can become other nurses in providing care to
COVID-19 patients.
Since 2018, America has created a coalition of
nurses, namely The Nurses on Boards Coalition. This coalition was created to
bring together nursing and national organizations to build healthier
communities in the United States to ensure that nurses' voices are heard at the
decision-making level. In the pandemic era, for example, the coalition
functions as a forum to create nurses who can lead in managing COVID-19 at various
levels of the health system. Its activities include advocating for the
fulfillment of PPE for all nurses working in health services and setting
standards for nursing codes of professional behavior during an unusual medical
condition, namely the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition, improving the health care system,
especially hospitals during a pandemic, can be implemented through a balance
between clinical and managerial leadership. As was the case in India, Lebanon,
and Canada, the decision made by the clinical leadership was to suspend all
non-urgent elective surgeries and this decision was approved by management.
This is an example of a leader who can respond quickly to a pandemic. With the
suspension, the hospital will allocate more nurses to the care of COVID-19 patients.
This has been proven to have affected the hospital's financial condition for
the better.
The success of leadership in dealing with the
COVID-19 pandemic is largely determined by the involvement of clinical and
non-clinical activities. In addition, the role of service leaders in
supervising the policies, rules, and standards that apply in hospitals also
greatly determines the sustainability of hospitals during the pandemic. In
other words, hospital leaders must be able to follow the flow of changes that
occur and always conduct reviews related to programs that take place during the
pandemic, so that hospitals can continue to achieve their vision and mission
and financial conditions will remain stable.
3. Social
Media Strategy 10,13,20
The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as one of the
most common diseases in world history, causing a global health emergency. In
the era of technology 4.0, one of the social aspects that greatly affect the
financial condition of hospitals is the use of social media. Structural
equation model theory explains that there is a relationship between social
media exposure, awareness, information exchange, and preventive behavior in
determining the presence or absence of social media exposure with disease prevention
behavior.
The use of social media as a means of providing
information related to COVID-19 is very helpful in the pandemic era. As we all
know, all activities during this pandemic must implement health protocols,
including hospital activities. This is what makes hospitals must have
innovation by using technology 4.0 assistance related to the health services
provided. Various innovations related to the use of social media to increase
patient visits, were able to restore cash flow stability and the overall
financial condition of the hospital. The innovations made by several hospitals include:
a. ��Using telemedicine as information media for
patients regarding doctor's schedules and facilities owned by hospitals,
providing information related to the prevention and handling of COVID-19 in
hospitals and scientific activities as promotive advice.
b. Using
the whats app/messenger/short message service (SMS)
application for registration, so that patients don't have to wait long in the
hospital and reduce contact with other patients to consult with doctors.
An empirical investigation was also carried out
in Pakistan. The results of the study of 500 respondents stated that there was
a relationship between exposure to social media and prevention behavior
indirectly through awareness and exchange of information. This is certainly
very helpful for the community in implementing health protocols in hospitals.
That way, there will be no accumulation of poly and ER patients in Pakistani
hospitals. So that the implementation of health protocols in hospitals runs
smoothly. That way, the flow of hospital polyclinic services will be better and
reduce the hospital's burden of disinfecting the polyclinic area.
But there are problems in the use of social
media. The media not only preaches related to the pandemic and its prevention
correctly, but there are also many hoaxes circulating. This makes people
anxious and afraid to get health services at the hospital. This has an impact
on the hospital's cash flow. Therefore, it is hoped that each hospital will be able
to use social media as a means of correct information so that it can help open
up public knowledge and insight regarding COVID-19 and its prevention. it is
hoped that there will be an increase in the number of patient visits and
restore the stability of cash flows and the overall financial condition of the
hospital.
4. Funding
allocation system (Stevens et al., 2020)
A self-managed survey was conducted between
April 1, 2020 to April 30, 2020 in Galicia. The results obtained are that the
hospital has decreased the number of patients, where health services are only
provided to patients in an emergency. This is due to the lack of available PPE.
In addition, the results of research conducted by anesthesiologists in Europe
in handling global surgical cases due to the COVID-19 pandemic were also
obtained. The study was conducted by collecting data using the mobile application
�Anesthesiologist� (RStudio) which was commonly used during 2018-30 June 2020.
The results obtained were a decrease in the number of patients with surgical
cases. This decision was taken due to the high operational burden of hospitals
in providing health care for COVID-19 patients so that the allocation of hospital
funds focused on providing services for COVID-19 patients. In addition, the
hospital must also be able to allocate some of the hospital's funds to the
flagship program owned by the hospital. To support this, several ways are taken
to reduce or even eliminate funding allocations to programs that are not
related to COVID-19 services, namely:
a. �Postponement of investment in medical devices
that do not support COVID-19 patient care.
b. Delays
in infrastructure repairs that are not prioritized.
c. ��Postponement of maintenance of non-mainly
medical and non-medical devices.
d. Re-negotiating
the payment for medical equipment rental.
e. ��Reducing interest rates for unpaid hospital
debt.
f. ��Not conducting CME or HR training during the
pandemic.
g. Not
recruiting personnel during the pandemic.
h. Postponing
the provision of old-age and death insurance for health workers.
The things mentioned above were carried out by
recalculating hospital financing units and refocusing budget efficiency on
services for COVID-19 patients. For example, in India and Israel, there are
government policies related to providing hospital waivers, by providing
financial guarantees for the care of COVID patients and providing compensation
to health workers who died during the pandemic. This helps the hospital in
managing its finances so that the allocation of funds that were originally
given for death insurance has been guaranteed by the government.
In addition, hospitals in America and Canada
are continuously advocating for the government. The advocacy is related to
several things, including:
a. ��Withholding
payroll tax and income tax.
b. Hospital
loan interest deduction.
c. ��Suspend financial liquidity for a period of two
to three months.
Some of the things above, if done, will
slightly reduce the burden of spending that has been allocated to the service
of COVID-19 patients so as to be able to stabilize financial conditions during
the COVID-19 pandemic.
5. Strategies
for rejuvenating income during and after COVID-199 (Gordon et al., 2020)
To survive a pandemic, hospitals must be able
to balance their books and generate income beyond their usual funding. The cost
savings of health services carried out by hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic
can be done through selective centralization or administrative regionalization.
The selective centralization in question is to focus hospital finances on
financing COVID-19 patients related to health workers to the facilities and infrastructure
needed, delaying elective surgery, and suppressing financing related to managerial
aspects.
There are several strategies for rejuvenating
income during a pandemic, namely:
a. ��Reducing hospital operating costs as efficiently
as possible.
b. Reviewing
the hospital's strategic business plan.
c. ��Carry out innovations in health services, for
example the use of telemedicine.
d. Modify
hospital behavior to maintain business continuity.
e. ��Shortening hospitalizations for non-COVID
patients so that BOR can increase.
The things mentioned above are summarized in
hospital governance. During this pandemic, the main strategy taken by hospitals
is to establish good hospital governance. it aims to create quality control and
cost control so that the health services provided can be efficient.
6. Restructuring
the emergency system (Wang & Wang, 2020)
The emergency department is one of the main
doors for income generation for hospitals. The occurrence of the COVID-19
pandemic requires hospitals to restructure their emergency systems on an
ongoing basis. Some of the strategic steps that can be taken are:
a. ��Modify SOPs related to ER services, for
example by changing the triage criteria.
b. Improve
the required infrastructure.
c. ��Redesign the room and add an isolation room
in the emergency department to accommodate COVID-19 patients.
d. Shorten
the response time of UGD.
e. ��Prepare reserve posts outside the ER to accommodate
COVID patients so that they do not stay in contact with non-COVID patients for
too long. This has been done in China. The main thing to do is to restructure
the national health emergency system, namely to form a team to control and make
policies related to the incidence of COVID-19. The most important thing is to
build many of hospital posts in the form of square cabins and provide medical
personnel and adequate equipment to serve as a shelter for COVID-19 patients
before receiving treatment rooms or requiring referrals to hospitals with more
complete facilities. With these several strategies, hospitals are greatly helped
so that expenses for COVID-19 services can be minimized.
f. ��Conducting a SWOT analysis to get
recommendations for solutions to problems that may occur in the ER.
7. Health
Policy�
Many policies related to handling and
preventing COVID have been formed by the government, especially in Indonesia.
However, along with the development of the SARSCov2 virus variant, the
differences in effects and the severity of the effects, making existing
policies must continue to be evaluated and revised. This has happened in Indonesia,
the guidelines for the management of COVID-19 have been revised 3 times, and
related to the guidelines for preventing and controlling COVID-19, they have
been revised 4 times.
This is a clear sign that COVID-19 is a
significant and continuous challenge to the setting of health priorities and
health policies in individual countries around the world. At the beginning of
the pandemic, several low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) have reviewed and
produced several criteria that are used to determine health policy priorities
during the pandemic. These criteria include cost-effectiveness, equity of
service, appropriateness of services provided, and political considerations in
each country. To meet these criteria, an institution that functions as a center
for studies related to health policy is needed, as in India the Agency for the
Assessment of Health Technology (HTAB) has been established. This institution
was formed to provide support by seeking evidence related to evidence of policy
making. According to this agency, there are three criteria for a country to be
able to provide recommendations in terms of health policy, namely maximizing resource
allocation, equity in health care and utilization, and reducing own spending.
The pandemic places healthcare providers,
particularly healthcare workers, at higher risk of exposure. Health care
providers must begin to think about and implement mitigation strategies while
protecting their health workers from being infected with COVID-19. Therefore,
by applying the efficiency principle, new health policies are needed during a
pandemic, including those related to the protection of health workers such as
the fulfillment and adequacy of PPE equipment, infection control,
chemoprophylaxis, providing additional incentives, and caring for health
workers. suffering from COVID-19, until the death of a health worker. This is
very important so that health service providers, including health workers, feel
safe and protected in carrying out their duties during the pandemic.
Several policies made by the government to
assist hospitals in stabilizing financial conditions include:
1. Fulfilling
hospital facilities and infrastructure in COVID services.
2. Meeting
the shortage of health workers in charge of dealing with COVID-19.
3. Requesting
health insurance in collaboration with hospitals to immediately pay claims that
have been billed or at least provide an upfront payment of 30 to 50% of the
total claim.
4. Provide
emergency hospitals and wider quarantine areas, so that COVID-19 patients without
symptoms and mild symptoms do not accumulate in hospitals.
B.
Discussion
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating
effect on hospital revenues. This condition is exacerbated by the existence of
several provisions from the government regarding the postponement of elective
operations. In an emergency, most of the general public avoid going to the
hospital as a precaution. A higher-than-expected financial deficit, together
with irreversible cost fixes, will result in hospitals becoming highly dependent
on refinancing and financial support, resulting in hospital financial
instability.
The management approach to establish a stable
financial condition is to reduce unnecessary costs and improve planning and
implementation, especially regarding the hospital's financial thinking and
leadership style. Both of these things must be evaluated immediately so that
decisions can be made immediately in preventing financial deficits that will
continue to occur. The thoughts and leadership styles of hospital leaders are expected
to always be aligned, balanced, focused, and qualified in terms of handling COVID-19
and Non-COVID-19 so that COVID-19 does not become a burden
to the financial stability of the hospital. One way that can be taken to
improve the financial stability of hospitals is to focus on treating COVID-19
patients and reducing the number of elective surgeries as has been done in several
countries, namely India, Lebanon, and Canada. By doing this, it is proven that
hospitals in the three countries have increased hospital financial stability
during this pandemic.
The current technological era is the era of
technology 4.0. In this era, the use of social media can affect the financial
condition of the hospital. Some theories suggest that there is a relationship
between social media exposure, awareness, information exchange, and disease
prevention behavior. With these theories, social media can be used as policymakers
in each hospital in dealing with COVID-19. This is the basis that hospitals
must be "technology literate" so that the number of hospital visits
remains stable and does not decrease during the pandemic. As seen today, news
related to the COVID-19 outbreak is the most in-demand. The media is not only
reporting on health but also social and economic issues during the pandemic.
This impact is especially felt in the hospital. With so much fake news
circulating about COVID-19, people are afraid to come to the hospital. This
will gradually disrupt the hospital's cash flow so that the hospital has difficulty
controlling its finances. The use of social media as a means of correct
information is expected to help hospitals increase the number of patient visits
and restore cash flow stability and overall hospital financial condition.
There is a major problem that most hospitals
have in dealing with COVID-19. This problem is the lack of readiness of every
health facility around the world, including hospitals. This unpreparedness
includes the lack of isolation and non-isolation treatment rooms, inadequate
medical equipment, and medicines to non-medical equipment and supplies such as
sanitation. This unpreparedness has made COVID-19 in several countries including
Indonesia continue to increase. In addition, this unpreparedness is influenced
by the existing health financing in the country. As is the case in India, the
main challenge faced is related to the delivery of public services using an understanding
of the health system. But India has responded quickly to the pandemic. India
can immediately implement a comprehensive health care system, improve the
quality of health insurance, and increase the capacity of COVID-19 patients in
each hospital. The health financing system adopted by each country is
inseparable from the economic sector. With the COVID-19 pandemic, all healthcare
services, especially hospitals, are facing financial difficulties during the
COVID-19 pandemic. The decline in inpatient visits to emergency units,
outpatient clinics, and inpatients to patients requiring elective surgical
procedures has burdened hospitals due to high costs for COVID-19 patients. To
anticipate this, an active role and cooperation from hospitals, local governments
to the central government are needed so that hospital finances are stable
again. Hospitals should jointly conduct advocacy related to the financial
condition experienced by the government so that there is a policy that can
improve the current financial condition. In addition, the government must also
be able to continue to provide support to hospitals in terms of fulfilling medical
devices, medicines, and other resources in the face of financial pressures that
occur.
Another and the main option that must be done
apart from doing some of the things above to improve the financial stability of
the hospital is to apply a SWOT analysis like what was done in China. The
COVID-19 pandemic has made hospital operations and services change instantly,
requiring special attention. A detailed analysis of the implementation of SWOT
measures is expected to be able to produce priority plans that can be
immediately followed up in the face of the ongoing pandemic. By doing a SWOT analysis,
it is hoped that every hospital will be able to maintain the quality and
quality of services so that the pandemic can end soon.
CONCLUSION
In terms of
systems thinking for decision making, several hospital strategies are needed to
survive this pandemic, namely a change in leadership style in terms of financial
management by not only focusing on COVID-19 but being able to improve essential
services for other diseases so that preparedness is needed and better pandemic
response. quickly and comprehensively by using an integrated understanding of
the health system in every hospital stakeholder. For this reason, hospitals can
also allocate sufficient funding according to accurate COVID-19 data through
adequate technological capacity, besides that hospitals
must also be able to maintain a balance that can be achieved through selective
centralization or administrative regionalization to reduce hospital operational
burdens. through connectivity. In the era of digitalization and disruption,
innovation is very much needed in terms of marketing strategies through social
media and also having innovation. Another very important innovation is carried
out so that the pressures faced by hospitals can be overcome by using a SWOT analysis
during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Based on this
analysis, it is necessary to take innovative steps taken by each hospital
regarding the financial conditions faced to re-realize financial stability in the
era of the ongoing pandemic.
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