Hospitals
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Hospitals
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?
This paper discusses some of the elements that lead to the conflict that exists among the management, board of trustees, and hospital professionals, and therefore impact the efficient and successful running of a certain hospital. They include actions including promotion that take into account length of service, age, and competence; prejudice in the recruitment process for health staff who engage in clinic campaigns including measles; and suspicions by others that the management is mishandling hospital finances (McGilton, 2014). Some of the difficulties presented by healthcare employees in the course of their duties are often ignored by the board of trustees. One of the biggest sources of conflict amongst administrators, healthcare professionals, and board of trustees is unfavorable working conditions for healthcare staff members. The majority of hospitals force their medical personnel to labor in terrible circumstances. The hospital administration and board of trustees are responsible for providing suitable working conditions for the medical personnel. When they fail to keep their commitments, conflicts often emerge. The majority of the time, hospital administration and the board of trustees do not react to the medical staff’s complaints.
Organizations such as the LeapFrog Group represent a growing trend to survey and report on the quality of hospital care and to make the findings available to the public. What are your opinions about the public’s readiness to deal with having this information available and using it to make choices about medical care?
The information supplied by the LeapFrog Group, in my view, assists patients in making informed decisions regarding medical treatment by providing them with a comprehensive picture of the state of all clinical health care facilities. The LeapFrog Group gives reliable information to clients depending on surveys conducted by all of the clinical healthcare practitioners listed. This data tells potential patients which establishments provide the safest and riskiest health-care services. The letter grades assigned by the LeapFrog Group to hospitals, namely A, B, C, D, and F, provide a clear picture of the institutions’ efficiency (Galvin, 2005). Patients can use data from the LeapFrog Group to monitor their medication details and gain access to the contact details for their various health personnel. They can also use the information to better comprehend their care and treatment strategies, define and address questions requested during doctor’s visits, and evaluate with their healthcare consultant. The client may express his or her concerns about his or her health care services via such interactive activities, and the information offered by the LeapFrog organization offers the patient advance knowledge of what is expected of them when they go to the health centers.
Hospitals are facing unprecedented financial challenges from entrepreneurial physician initiatives that are establishing competitive, free-standing diagnostic and treatment centers and specialty hospitals. In your opinion, what are the advantages and disadvantages to these developments from a patient perspective?
Patients will benefit from the entrepreneurial practitioner activities in a variety of ways, with some drawbacks. These efforts have resulted in the construction of free-standing and competitive speciality hospitals and screening and therapeutic facilities. Clients are the ones who are targeted by these programs, and they are the individuals who stand to profit from them all. It is crucial to emphasize, nevertheless, that these programs are expensive, and patients must fund the costs when they obtain such treatments (Greenwald, 2006).
References
Galvin, R. S., Delbanco, S., Milstein, A., & Belden, G. (2005). Has the leapfrog group had an
impact on the health care market?. Health Affairs, 24(1), 228-233.
Greenwald, L., Cromwell, J., Adamache, W., Bernard, S., Drozd, E., Root, E., & Devers, K.
(2006). Specialty versus community hospitals: referrals, quality, and community benefits.
Health affairs, 25(1), 106-118.
McGilton, K. S., Boscart, V. M., Brown, M., & Bowers, B. (2014). Making tradeoffs between the reasons to leave and reasons to stay employed in long-term care homes: Perspectives of licensed nursing staff. International Journal of Nursing Stud