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Strategy
In 2004, Lawndale Christian Health Center conducted a strategic planning session to determine a vision for the next three years. Various LCHC employees and board members gathered to analyse LCHC and its surrounding areas needs and strengths, and re-evaluated its mission. All LCHC employees then voted on the ideas generated at that session and the following goals were created:

Facilities
Housekeeping - Facilities at the all locations will receive good to excellent ratings from 90% of employees.
Parking - Access to parking will be increased by at least 50 spaces at the Ogden Campus.
Security - Security at the Ogden Campus will receive good to excellent ratings from 90% of employees.
Site Development - Blueprints will be developed to expand LCHC's services at the Central Park and Ogden building, focusing on dental services.
Employee Satisfaction
Employee Satisfaction - Enact employee satisfaction survey and determine how to make LCHC a better place to work based upon results.
Hispanic Representation - Increase the percentage of hispanic leaders and board members from the 2004 levels. (2004: 11% Leaders, 8% Board Members)
Key Measures - Create and implement a quality and productivity measurement system, providing targets and variance measures for key activities in every department.
LCEU Training - Continue to improve LCEU training program, with greater focus on job competencies, spiritual skills, supervisory skils, and cultural competency.
Mission & Vision - Implement activities, training programs and a peformance feedback system designed to help staff members understand and implement LCHC's mission in their day-to-day work.
Spanish Speaking - Equip and expect all employees to speak Spanish well enough to handle at least simple customer courtesies.
Patient Access
Behavioral/HSS Expansion - Referral services for Behavioral Health Services and Health Support Services available during all clinic hours at each location.
Church Partnerships - Create an outreach program that formally involves a group of churches in the community.
Dental Visit Increase - Increase the number of dental visits per year from 4,000 to 10,000 over a three year period.
Fitness - Develop a fitness program that provides at least 1,000 visits per week.
Geriatrics - Create a Geriatrics Service Line and create a plan for increasing services from 7,000 visits per year to 10,000 visits per year and identify quality initiatives to meet the unique needs of service area patients.
Location Development - Identify a location within the service area allowing LCHC to create 20,000 visits per year of new capacity.
OB Deliveries - Increase the number of obstetrical deliveries from 750 to 1,000 per year while also increasing our market share in our target communities.
Pastoral/Behavioral Health Expansion - Expand Pastoral and Behavioral Health Services from 4.2 staff members to 7, providing coverage at all campus sites.
Patient Volume - Increase medical visit volume from 88,000 per year to 110,000 per year over a three year period.
Pharmacy - Activate Pharmacy services at Homan Square as soon as annualized volume achieves 27,000 visits per year.
School Clinic Addition - Identify an option similar to Farragut for expanding by one more service location.
Support - Increase foundation and philanthropic support for programmatic needs by $500,000 per year from the current base of $100,000 per year.
Efficiency in Care
EMR - Develop a plan to install an Electronic Medical Records system within 2 years.
Health Support Servces Integration - Create a system where Health Support Services are more readily available and practical to the clinical care we provide.
Medical Records - Patient charts available and used with 99% of visits.
Medical Records - 99% of labs filed in patient charts within a week.
Open Access - Implement "Open Access" scheduling, reducing the 3rd available appointment for 90% of providers from 1.5 weeks to 3 days.
Pharmacy - Create multiple systems for helping low income uninsured patients successfully obtain access to pharmaceuticals.
Relational Health Care Teams - Implement a "Relational Health CareTeam" approach to providing medical services, increasing patient and employee satisfaction.
Customer Service
Customer Satisfaction - Customer courtesy requirements for employees written into job descriptions and used for employee evaluations.
Telephone Service - Improve telephone efficiency, cutting patient wait times and improving customer interaction.