Healthcare Role-Play:

St. Francis Hospital and the Managed Medical Model

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Patricia Moore and Lawrence Susskind

Five-party, four-issue negotiation among representatives for a financially struggling hospital's administrators, doctors, and nurses over budget priorities and expanded application of the managed medical model

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To order multiple copies of a role simulation for use in a course or workshop, simply enter the total number of participants in the box next to “Quantity.” There is no need to calculate how many of each role is required.

If you are ordering hard copies, the Teaching Negotiation Resource Center will calculate the appropriate numbers of each role to provide, based on the total number of participants. For example, if you wish to order a 2-party role simulation for use with a class of 30 students, you would enter “30” in the box next to “Quantity.” You then would receive 15 copies of one role and 15 copies of the other role, for use with your 30 participants. As another example, if you ordered 30 participant copies of a 6-party role simulation, you would receive 5 copies of each role.

In the event that the number of participant copies you order is not evenly divisible by the number of roles in the simulation, you will receive extra copies of one or more roles. Participants receiving the extra roles may partner with other participants playing the same role, thus negotiating as a team. So, for instance, if you ordered 31 copies of a 2-party role simulation, you would receive 15 copies of the first role and 16 copies of the second role. One of the participants playing the second role would partner with another participant playing that same role, and the two would negotiate as a team.

Bulk Pricing Discount

For bulk orders, we offer the following pricing discounts. Please note that these only apply to bulk orders of the same simulation.

  • Between 100-250 copies – 10% discount
  • Between 251-500 copies – 25% discount
  • More than 500 copies – 50% discount
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SCENARIO:

A hospital in a large urban center is struggling to improve patient care, meet financial obligations, and resolve inter-professional differences. A new Medical Management Model, under which physicians assume responsibility and accountability for the operation of all medical services, has been developed by the Chief of Medicine. The CEO and Chief Financial Officer have both supported the model, as well as the new Management Information System on which it rests. Other members of the hospital community–most notably the Vice President for Nursing and the most senior Attending Physician–are either opposed to its adoption or determined to obtain some compensating benefits if they go along with it. The CEO has called a meeting of these five major players to see if they can reach agreement on four issues facing the Executive and the Board of Directors. If the CEO cannot obtain agreement on a package, the Board will make decisions on these issues; none of the managers would be happy with that outcome.

 

MECHANICS:

Time Requirements:

This five-party exercise requires approximately 3 1/2 hours to play and debrief; additional preparation time is useful. Negotiations require a minimum of 90 minutes. General instructions are distributed at some point prior to the start of the exercise. At least 20 minutes should be given for reading the general instructions, 20 minutes for the confidential instructions and 20 minutes for same-role group discussion — giving players time for preparation and strategy. Allow 90-105 minutes for negotiating and 45-60 minutes for debriefing.

 

Facility needs:

Room with seating and writing materials for 5. At least one private breakout room is highly recommended.

 

MAJOR LESSONS:

  • Interests vs. positions – Many difficult negotiations start with parties offering their positions. It is important to identify the underlying interest behind these positions. Focusing on interests encourages the parties to listen carefully to each other so as to discover what each considers important. This encourages joint problem-solving rather than adversarial posturing.
  • Different values and priorities facilitate agreement building: When parties value issues differently, the possibility of reaching an agreement is high if the parties are able to identify these differences during the negotiation. Awareness of different preferences and values can enable negotiators to work together and structure agreements which create maximum value for all parties.
  • Trading across options to create a package: Packaging involves putting together a proposal that provides solutions to a set of problems. In many negotiations, no agreement can be made by dealing with each issue separately. However, agreement can be reached by parties trading across all the issues.
  • Coalitions: The building of coalitions is an important consideration in multi-party negotiation. It is important for parties to ask themselves, "who might share my interest? If we unite as a coalition, might be able to block agreements that do not meet our interests? How stable is our coalition and who are my preferred coalition partners?" Coalitions are likely to be fragile and unstable. Members of coalitions should for ways to strengthen the coalition. This will frequently involve paying close attention to coalition members' interests and priorities.
  • The Mediator or Manager: Managers frequently function as mediators. The skillful use of mediation techniques can benefit not only the manager personally, but also the participants as a whole, in terms of maximizing value.

 

TEACHING MATERIALS:

For all parties:

  • General Instructions
  • Fact Sheet from Executive Summary prepared by hospital consultants

 

Role specifics:

Confidential Instructions for

  • Dr. M. Mason, M.D., Chief of Medicine
  • C. Marshall, Chief Financial Officer
  • N. MacNamara, Senior Vice President of Nursing
  • G. Bennett, CEO
  • Dr. A. Parker, M.D., Senior Attending Physician

 

Teacher's Package (58 pages):

  • All of the above
  • Teaching Note

 

KEYWORDS:

Health care negotiations; multi-party negotiations; managed conflict inside the organization

 

SIMILAR SIMULATIONS:

Williams Medical Center

 

St. Francis Hospital and the Managed Medical Model Attributes

Time required: 3-5 hours
Number of participants: 5
Teams involved: No
Agent present: None
Neutral third party present: Mediator
Scoreable: Yes
Teaching notes available: Yes
Filed in:
Corporate Decision Making, Healthcare, Moore, Patricia, Role Simulations, Susskind, Lawrence
Tags:
adversarial, agreement, agreements, coalition, conflict, difficult negotiations, health care negotiations, HNI, interests, Mediation, mediation technique, mediation techniques, Mediator, mediators, negotiating, negotiation, negotiations, negotiator, negotiators, PON