Middleboro Executive Summary Essay Example

patients any combination of the following services: nursing care, social services, physician services, spiritual support and counseling, home health aides and homemaker services, trained volunteer support, physical, occupational, and speech therapies, respite care and bereavement support.

HCHHA is an established, well-respected and certified provider of services, and the expansion into Hospice will strengthen the bond between provider and community. Opportunity The target market for hospice services provided by HCHHA would be those patients in Middleboro and the surrounding communities of Mifflenville, Boalsburg, Harris City, Minortown, Carterville, and Stateville (excluding Jasper), who are suffering from chronic illnesses and have been deemed terminal.

There has been a population increase of 4% in this combined area over the last 10 years, and the projections are that the population will continue to increase as Middleboro continues its urban development (refer to Appendix A). Additionally, resident deaths due to illnesses that would require hospice care has also been increasing over the past 25 years, by an average of 35%. These would be among the leading causes of deaths in the county, related to malignant neoplasms, cerebrovascular diseases, motor vehicle accidents, alzheimer’s disease, syndromes of nephrosis, and chronic liver and cirrhosis (refer to Appendix B).

For the last three years, the staff at HCHHA has reported that patients served by HCHHA programs immediately following hospital discharges required more intensive services than in the past (Middleboro Case Study, pg. 37). According to a study recently released by the state Medical Society and reported as a news article recently appearing in the Middleboro Sentinel and on TV Channel 32, “approximately 66% of all hospice patients have primary diagnosis of neoplasms, with cancer of

the lungs, colon, and prostate accounting for 50% of all neoplasms”.