The Role of Hospital Administrators in Multihospital Systems

Article Abstract:

This study was endorsed by the Veterans Administration, and explores the functions of a hospital chief executive officer (CEO) in a multihospital arrangement. The study examines the subjects that hospital CEOs must consider in terms of work performance, corporate structural support, financial and clinical services and other influential factors. Statistical tables are provided depicting size and type of facility affiliation correlated with profitability and expenditures. Other data discloses responses to a questionnaire as to the five major areas hospital administrators consider most urgent; planning actions head the list. A summary of identifiable tasks and activities are analyzed for their resemblances and incompatibilities, response to community needs, fiscal issues and staff relations. The conduct of multihospital executives is dominated by the nature of each system, whether for profit or non profit - and it behooves researchers to identify singular attributes that match individuals to each category.

Ethical aspects, Study and teaching, Executives, Dosage and administration, Work, Work (Labor), Managerial accounting, Systems engineering

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The Changing Profile: Affiliates of the American College of Hospital Administrators - 1973 and 1982

Article Abstract:

Although the American College of Hospital Administrators (ACHA) was established in 1933, in just the past nine years its membership has increased by fifty-three percent. A data base of hospital and health care administrators has been maintained by ACHA since 1973. The demographic, occupational and educational information in this data collection can be useful for statistical and inter-relationship analysis. This study is the first coordinated research of the varying characteristics of an ACHA affiliate group and delineates the specific modifications in certain areas earmarked for consideration. Occupational positions and employment trends were correlated with vital statistics, school specialization and gender factors, among other components. Examining altered roles within health organizations will aid managers to better plan health care industry activities and to prepare more befitting disposition of their own professional futures.

Research, Statistics, Demography, Future earnings potential, Automatic data collection systems

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Mentoring Among Hospital Administrators

Article Abstract:

The nature of mentoring is defined. Hospital administrators have an active role in recruiting and guiding new members into their profession which encourages mentoring relationships. Many administrative hospital employees find it necessary to turn to higher level administrators for guidance and advice because of the role ambiguity in their jobs. Career planning strongly correlates with mentoring. Managers who believe in a planned approach to career development are likely to take an active role guiding careers of younger organizational members. A survey of hospital administrators revealed that seventy-two per cent had a mentor at some point in their career and fifty-one per cent had a protege at the present time.

Methods, Management, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Mentors, Mentoring, Supervisors, Professions

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