Virginia Mason Hospital

Please research online and watch videos on the Just-in-Time process at Virginia Mason Hospital. Based on the success of this hospital, does the medical industry have an ethical obligation to follow suit and make health care more affordable, more accessible, and with faster turnaround to benefit the patients?

Just in Time Process is also termed as JIT and that is an inventory strategy which is effectively used by organizations to increase efficiency and decrease waste by receiving goods only when they are needed. This strategy has also been effectively used by the Virginia Mason Hospital and this has been very much successful in terms of taking care of patients effectively. The hospital has also used this strategy to making healthcare more affordable, more accessible and with faster turnaround in order to benefit the patients.

Based on the success of this hospital, it is the moral and ethical obligation of the medical industry to follow this suit and to make healthcare more affordable, more accessible and with faster turnaround to benefit the patients. The main reason of saying it as a moral obligation of the medical industry is that healthcare usually refers to take care of patients’ health and to provide them with the facilities which are affordable and in time. Thus the hospitals need to focus on these ethical obligations instead of focusing on generating more revenue (Rodak, 2011).

Usually the private sector hospitals focus on providing good care to their patients but in return, they charge very highly and these services are not affordable at all for common people. Hence, the just in time process went in an extra mile for the Virginia Mason hospital and became very much successful. Thus, this emerges as an ethical and moral obligation of the entire medical industry to provide the services to their patients which are affordable, accessible as well as in time.

Bibliography

Rodak, S. (2011). 10 Years Later: Virginia Mason Production System Still Going Strong . Retrieved from Becker’s Hospital Review : http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/10-years-later-virginia-mason-production-system-still-going-strong.html