lesson 2 Flashcards
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It is a complex organization utilizing combinations of intricate, specialized scientific equipment, and functioning through a corps of trained people educated to the problems of modern medical science.
Hospital
It is an integral part of a social and medical organization, the function of which is to provide for the population complete healthcare, both curative and preventive, and whose out-patient services reach out to the family in its home environment.
It is also a center for the training of health workers and for bio-social research.
Hospital
Hospitals require precision in the execution of job responsibilities and multiple layers of accountability in order to function. To accomplish this, hospitals use a _____ with many layers of management.
vertical organizational structure
The organizational structure of a hospital refers to the ____ within the hospital.
levels of management
It allows efficient management of hospital departments, and the structure helps one understand the hospital’s chain of command.
Levels
The structure varies from hospital to hospital, large hospitals have complex organizational structure and the smaller hospitals tend to have much simpler organizational structures.
Hospital administration functions can be classified into three broad categories:
Medical
Support
Administrative
It involves the treatment and management of patients through the staff of physicians.
Medical
It relates directly to patient care and includes nursing, dietary, diagnostic therapy, pharmacy and laboratory services.
Support
It concerns the execution of policies and directions of the hospital governing discharge of support services in the area of finance, personnel, materials and property, housekeeping, laundry, security, transport, engineering and board and the maintenance.
Administrative
Classification (Objectives)
General Hospitals
Special Hospitals
Teaching Research Hospitals
Classification (Type of Care)
Primary Care Hospital - (10-25 number of beds)
Secondary Care Hospital - (25-50 number of beds)
Tertiary Care Hospital - (50 and more than number of beds)
Classification (Clinical)
General Medicine Specialty
Surgical Specialty
Maternity
General Medicine Specialty:
Internal Medicine
Psychiatric and Nervous Diseases
Communicable Diseases
Tuberculosis
Pediatrics
Surgical Specialty:
Orthopedic
Gynecologic
Otholaryngologic
Classification (Bed Capacity)
Small hospital - up to 100 beds
Medium hospital - more than 100 to less than 300 beds
Large hospital - more than 300 beds
Classification (Administration, Ownership, Control/Financial Income)
Government
Non-Government
Semi-Government Hospital
Voluntary Agency Hospitals
Classification (Teaching Affiliation)
Teaching hospital
Non-teaching hospital
Classification (Accreditation)
Accredited
Non-accredited
Classification (Region)
Regional
District
Health Complex
Union Health and Family Welfare Centers
Community Clinics
Classification (As per WHO Classification)
Regional Hospital
District Hospital
Rural Hospital
The medical staff may be divided into the following categories:
Active Medical Staff
Associate Medical Staff
Courtesy Medical Staff
Consulting Medical Staff
Honorary Medical Staff
Is responsible for the delivery of the preponderance of medical service within the hospital and is most involved in the organizational and administrative duties pertaining to the medical staff.
Active Medical Staff
Consists of individuals who are being considered for the advancement to the active medical staff. These practitioners are appointed and assigned to the various services in the same manner as are members of the active medical staff.
Associate Medical Staff
