The Hospital: Is It a Place or a Thing?

Article Abstract:

Many problems in hospital management occur because different groups - unions, physicians, patients, government - view the hospital from different perspectives and expect different things. The hospital used to be a charitable place where people receive treatment. Today it is a thing, an ongoing business entity. When a hospital is treated as an economic entity with social overtones it is able to maximize its potential by responding to opportunities and adapting to change. Hospitals should be governed not by those acting in a more passive role as trustees, but by those in a more active role as directors. Physicians, nurses and management personnel should be included on the board.

---

Hospital strategy and financial performance

Article Abstract:

The five management strategies employed by hospitals to improve financial performance are analyzed. The specific advantages and disadvantages of the productivity/defender specialist, the selective analyzer Type I, the analyzer Type II, the diversify/prospector and reactor strategic approaches are outlined. Hospitals which use the productivity/defender strategy and specialize in fewer product lines show less decline in profitability. Excessive diversification, on the other hand, seems to lead to the most rapid decline.

Analysis, Health services administration

---

Strategies and structures for hospital risk management programs

Article Abstract:

Four basic features are found in a majority of risk management programs in Michigan hospitals. These are the assignment of risk management responsibility to an individual or committee, board involvement in such programs, a system of identifying and analyzing risks and an educational program for employees. The size and budget of hospitals also determine how comprehensive risk management programs are likely to be. Other features complementary to risk management programs are also identified.

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Analysis of an organization's waste stream. Information sources for medical waste management. Disposable versus reusable linen: back to the future
• Abstracts: Career survival strategies for materiel managers. Recent initiatives in U.S. hospital supply management
• Abstracts: The Role of Hospital Administrators in Multihospital Systems. Mentoring Among Hospital Administrators
• Abstracts: The Role of Hospital Administrators in Multihospital Systems. part 2 Strategic alliances between physicians and hospitals in multihospital systems
• Abstracts: An Internal Search for Capital. The Financial Manager's Role in Controlling Construction Costs

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.