Question

Part 2 Instructions Choose a large local healthcare organization. It may be an ambulatory care facility, hospital, or community health center. Research the organization to determine the organizational structure of the institution. If the organization is contacted directly, the public relations office may be a good place to start as it often has experience fielding questions from the public. It is not unusual for the website of the healthcare facility to have a list of divisions and departments or an organizational chart. Write a paragraph describing the organization. (10 points) Construct an organizational chart that includes management, medical staff, divisions and departments. Organization charts are a useful way to analyze structure. (20 points) • Document sources used. (Required for credit) Part 2 Inetrustinne

Answer 1

Hospital

                   A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized medical and nursing staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emergency department to treat urgent health problems ranging from fire and accident victims to a sudden illness. A district hospital typically is the major health care facility in its region, with many beds for intensive care and additional beds for patients who need long-term care. Specialized hospitals include trauma centers, rehabilitation hospitals, children's hospitals, seniors' (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric treatment and certain disease categories. Specialized hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to general hospitals. Hospitals are classified as general, specialty, or government depending on the sources of income received.

                In developed countries the hospital as an institution is complex, and it is made more so as modern technology increases the range of diagnostic capabilities and expands the possibilities for treatment. As a result of the greater range of services and the more-involved treatments and surgeries available, a more highly trained staff is required. A combination of medical research, engineering, and biotechnology has produced a vast array of new treatments and instrumentation, much of which requires specialized training and facilities for its use. Hospitals thus have become more expensive to operate, and health service managers are increasingly concerned with questions of quality, cost, effectiveness, and efficiency.

Departments

                 Hospitals consist of departments, traditionally called wards, especially when they have beds for inpatients, when they are sometimes also called inpatient wards. Hospitals may have acute services such as an emergency department or specialist trauma center, burn unit, surgery, or urgent care. These may then be backed up by more specialist units such as the following:

· Emergency department

· Cardiology

· Intensive care unit

o Paediatric intensive care unit

o Neonatal intensive care unit

o Cardiovascular intensive care unit

· Neurology

· Oncology

· Obstetrics and gynaecology, colloquially, maternity ward

                   In addition, there is the department of nursing, often headed by a chief nursing officer or director of nursing. This department is responsible for the administration of professional nursing practice, research, and policy for the hospital.

           Some hospitals have outpatient departments and some have chronic treatment units such as behavioral health services, dentistry, dermatology, psychiatric ward, rehabilitation services, and physical therapy.

         Common support units include a dispensary or pharmacy, pathology, and radiology. Hospitals also have a mortuary, where the dead are stored. On the non-medical side, there often are medical records departments, release of information departments, information management, clinical engineering , facilities management, plant ops (operations, also known as maintenance), dining services, and security departments.

Organization Chart

Board Administration Information Diagnostic Support Therapeutic Services Services Services Services Admissions Billing, etc Med. Records Computer Info. Health Ed. Human Resour. PT, OT Speech Lang Resp. Therapy Pharmacy Med. Lab Radiology Nuclear Med ER Cardiology Neurology Central Supply Biomedical Housekeeping Maintenance Dietary Transportation Nursing Dietary

References

• Hospital Administration and Management

             A Comprehensive Guide

             Joydeep Das Gupta

• Health Care Administration

            Managing Organized Delivery Systems, 5th Edition

             Lawrence F. Wolper

• Hospitals

What They Are and How They Work

            Donald J. Griffin