Hospital Setting

There are many types of organizations that may provide healthcare to a community. Organizations that provide healthcare services may seem similar however there are different ways a healthcare system may be structured. This paper is going to analyze the organizational structure of Hoag Hospital.

Throughout this course I have learned about the various challenges that impede productivity and efficiency at today’s hospitals. These issues facing the modern healthcare organization come in varying forms from technological, staffing, and financial to name a few. There are no limits to what hospitals can face in these modern technologically savvy times. Below are the major issues that today’s hospitals are facing, though there are many facets to these topics it will be described as best as possible to meet overall challenges:

The intention of every healthcare administrator is providing quality care to the community that the organization serves. In order to accomplish that goal, an administrator must understand the population and the requirements of the community that the healthcare organization serves. By identifying and recognizing the needs of the patient’s and the community a healthcare organization serves, an effective approach can be developed to maximize the efficiency and quality of the healthcare service that is delivered. In order to understand the role of healthcare administrators trying to provide quality care within a community setting, this paper will examine and analyze the circumstance presented in Drs.

The sector, health, that I have chosen includes a variety of people from ranging from elderly too adult too teenagers, children and baby’s. A hospital is a health care institution which provide treatment for many diseases and conditions.

Alex Knight delivers an exceptional view and entertaining prospective to making changes in the way hospitals are ran. This novel is an excellent read for students and educators that are wanting to go into the health care field. The main point of this novel is to provide an explanation of the application of the Theory of Constraints in a hospital setting. The central location of this novel is in a struggling and nonfunctional hospital through the eyes of Linda Seed.

Three important influences in the hospital governance, medical staff, administration, and board of trustees must work together for a hospital to efficiently and successfully function. Incongruities and conflicts exist between physicians, medical staff, hospital governance, board of trustees, and the administration. The conflicts and disagreements may range from disputes to major controversies and these have adverse effects on production, morale, and patient care. Conflicts, may also result in high members turnover and certainly limit staff participations and impede efficiency. Hospitals and medical staffs often have differing standpoints and individualized cultures, which can lead to division and separation between each other.

“Running a health care organization is a team sport. It is very important that all members of the team-whether on the medical staff, in management or on the board-understand the role of governance and what constitutes effective governance” (Arnwine, 2002). Running a hospital is a difficult task. Several factors need to be seriously thought of and considered in every decision and undertaking. Unfortunately, all the three important factors in governing a hospital is not always in harmony. As likened to a team sport, if the three major components are not working with each other as a team, there will be tension and a great divide will be experienced. And often times, the patients will be in the middle and will be greatly impacted. This writer believes that there are several factors that contribute to the tension that usually exists among the medical staff, the board and administration. One factor is the disconnect, where each entity is not seeing each other eye to eye and their visions may be different from each other. Another factor may be the lack of communication in order to bridge the gap and to build a respectful and a relationship wherein there is trust for each end every member of the group. Often times, the medical staff is concerned with ensuring that patients are cared for in a manner that their practice is protected as well as the patients are getting the appropriate care. On the other hand, the board of trustees may be focused in ensuring that that

Memorial Hospital Case Study uses a series of communication between different level and functional hospital employees to paint a picture of how this hospital operates. This paper will analyze and summarize key characteristics underlining the organization structure, management style and leadership, identify major challenges and recommend workable solutions.

Each organization must have a structure of the authority defined and distributed to help in the organization of the tasks and functions with the aim of achieving the objectives of the organization. An organization structure offers details of the formal structure of the authority in the organization. It is essential to study the organization structure of the organization in order to understand the functioning of the organization. This paper examines the organization structure of the nursing department in Kingston Centre hospital. The paper will look at the nursing and the nursing service management department in the hospital (Burke, 2013). The hospital is selected because I have been able to interact with the facility many times. I have been able to work in this department hence I understand the organization structure and the services offered in the department.

According to these sources as the public hospitals which have survived over the years have an advantage of widespread experience of maintaining quality with given limited resources, funds and capital. It is these hospitals which have managed to survive in this competitive environment alongside government regulations. Hence, the dynamics of their learning experience could be integrated with the extensive funds available to the private hospitals to achieve a higher social health. Moreover, the public hospitals have an edge over private hospitals in communicating, coordinating and taking care of patients at a community level. If the private and public hospitals join hands, both of them will enjoy the gains and benefits from each other’s comparative advantages.

The provision of care in the pre-hospital setting is often delivered in conditions that are unpredictable and chaotic, the primary step in scene management relies on the first assessment of any immediate physical dangers including the general environmental impressions; the location, position and general appearance of the patient and any bystanders; the obvious signs of illness; and the activity and awareness levels of the patient. As a primary care provider attending to the patient, it is important to focus on our own safety as the highest priority. When responding to a dispatch call it is necessary to consider all information provided to assist in your risk assessment even prior to arriving at the scene. When entering the situation focus should

Hospitals in today’s world require organizations that have a variety of people on their boards. Hospitals are usually run by administrators, board of directors, and other departments. Each of the many tiers of the hospital organizations has varied goals and achievements that they wish to accomplish. This article is designed to discuss some of the strengths; weakness, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of the hospital organization (Roussel, 2013). Internal and external forces will be discussed as factors of influence upon the decision making body of the hospital. An example of a problem found in many hospitals, the threat of patient falls will be analyzed. This article hopes to give a better picture of hospital organizations,

Ideal healthcare system will be the one that works for all the individuals in the community without disparity or confusion. With an ideal healthcare system, members in a community will get adequate access to care, basic information, better research and information for the patients (Yvonne, 2009).In this paper; I will discuss the various key factors to be addressed in the development of an ideal model of care.

Hospitals have organizational structures that allows them to carry out their duties efficiently and successfully. What separates the organizational structure of a healthcare organization from a business, essentially that the hospital 's organization is chiefly founded on the amalgamation of medical and administrative staff (Carayon, et al., 2014). The organizational structure of the twenty-first century solutions in health care hospitals involves, both divisional and hierarchical structure. In the of the chain of command hierarchy, there are various levels of professional’s that fall under other levels within the facility, and each staff member is organized in regards to departments that are related to their (KSA’s) skills, attributes and job duties (Carayon, et al., 2014). Hospital organization philosophies is based on development of values and ethics, with the understanding on moral principles relating to human conduct. These systems are comprised with the processes in decision making and determining the best actions to consider between the difficult alternatives when pertaining to patient care.

1. To identify the causes and effects of having insufficient motivational stimulus/stimuli within a workplace (in connection with McClelland’s drives, Herzberg’s two-factory theory, and Expectancy Model of Motivation).