For a hospital to operate efficiently and effectively, the three important influences in its governance, medical staff, board of trustees, and administration, must work together in reasonable harmony. What factors contribute to the tension that usually exists among them?
The factors contributing to the tension between the different stakeholders in a hospital are
(a) Compensation and payment issues of medical practitioners.
(b) Lack of co ordination between the administration and medical services rendering team.
(c) Policymakers' interests conflicting those of employees and regulatory authorities.
(d) Cultural aspects resisting the change process directed towards better customer service.
(e) Conservative approach of the board of trustees making it difficult to innovate and evolve as per the demand of time.
(f) Inter departmental issues and conflicts at the workplace at all levels, originating from ambiguity of processes, unclear job responsibilities and conflicting interests between roles.
(g) Lack of strategic vision on the part of top management.
(g) Infeasibility of operations in the wake of government regulations leading to sudden need of cost reduction and organisational restructuring.
(h) Difference in priorities of tasks among the three influencers causing dissatisfied staff and poor service levels.
For a hospital to operate efficiently and effectively, the three important influences in its governance, medical...
For a hospital to operate efficiently and effectively, the three important influences in its governance, medical staff, board of trustees, and administration, must work together in reasonable harmony. What factors contribute to the tension that usually exists among them?
St. Francis Assisted Living Facility St. Francis Medical Center, a 450 bed rehabilitation non-profit hospital began to see a significant decline in admissions. St. Francis' mission focuses on inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation of the severely injured and catastrophically ill. While the patient census varied from month to month, it appeared to the St. Francis Board of Trustees that the inpatient population was slowly but steadily declining. The hospital's market researchers reported that fewer people were being severely injured due to...
A Not-for-Profit Medical Research Center A Not-for-Profit Medical Research Center You are Alexis, the director of external affairs for a national not-for-profit medical research center that does research on diseases related to aging. The center’s work depends on funding from multiple sources, including the general public, individual estates, and grants from corporations, foundations, and the federal government. Your department prepares an annual report of the center’s accomplishments and financial status for the board of directors. It is mostly text with...
I need help with my very last assignment of this term
PLEASE!!, and here are the instructions: After reading Chapter Two,
“Keys to Successful IT Governance,” from Roger Kroft and Guy
Scalzi’s book entitled, IT Governance in Hospitals and Health
Systems, please refer to the following assignment instructions
below.
This chapter consists of interviews with executives
identifying mistakes that are made when governing healthcare
information technology (IT). The chapter is broken down into
subheadings listing areas of importance to understand...
A Not-for-Profit Medical Research Center
A Not-for-Profit Medical Research Center You are Alexis, the
director of external affairs for a national not-for-profit medical
research center that does research on diseases related to aging.
The center’s work depends on funding from multiple sources,
including the general public, individual estates, and grants from
corporations, foundations, and the federal government. Your
department prepares an annual report of the center’s
accomplishments and financial status for the board of directors. It
is mostly text with...
Read the case "Last Chance Hospital" and write a case study report, use chapter 17 as a guide. Requirements: Write a two (2) to three (3) paragraph essay in APA format. Answer the case study and outcome of your research in detail. Reports will be graded on following chapter 17 guidelines, grammar, sentence construction, spelling, punctuation, quality of analysis, solutions, and recommendation. Last Chance Hospital (LCH) is a 254-bed, community hospital located in a small, affluent suburb just outside of...
Entering and Contracting Contracting at Charity Medical Center Charity Medical Center (CMC), a five hundred-bed acute-care hospital, was part of the Jefferson Hospital Corporation (JHC). JHC, which operated several long-term and acute-care facilities and was sponsored by a large religious organization, had recently been formed and was trying to establish accounting and finance, materials management, and human resources systems to manage and coordinate the different facilities of particular concern to CMC, however, was a market share that had been declining...
Your Dr. Henry Case (activity 7.1) Study paper is due the end of
this week (Unit 7). Make sure your paper includes headings,
Introduction, Summary of the Case, Issue with corresponding legal
reference such as bylaws, state licensure, etc., counter-arguments
(all sides of the argument regarding the issue(s), possible
solutions to the issue within the ethical and societal context
(don't forget to link the ethical principles), Conclusion, and
support (in-text citations and reference page). Write the:
Summary of the case...
The activity An EHR was implemented at the General Hospital one year ago, before you were hired. The implementation process did not go smoothly and now there are strong EHR advocates and strong EHR-dissenters on the team. The CEO wants to move forward with an implementation of the bar-coded medication administration feature of the EHR, but the director of nursing does not. You have been asked to manage the implementation and see that it is successful. You will first need...
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It is important to understand the different leadership styles employed by nursing leaders in healthcare organizations and to understand their significance on nursing practice and patient outcomes, for better or for worse. Objective: Read the articles from Nursing Standard (PDF) and Bradley University (PDF). In -250 words, formulate an opinion on the following: 1. Reflect on an occasion where you experienced ineffective leadership (doesn't have to be in the hospital). What behaviors did they display? What...