Assessment of a major healthcare system/organization
Each student will select a major healthcare system or organization, and complete a paper on their selected organization/system.
The paper should address the following components:
- Part A:
- Describe the selected organization/healthcare system.
- What is the purpose and mission of the organization?
- Part B:
- Discuss the organizational leadership chart.
- Who is the leader or leaders? What is their responsibility?
- How are they chosen? What is their term of office?
- How is their accountability/productivity measured?
- Part C:
- What are the major components, divisions, departments or units of the organization?
- How is each unit organized in terms of leadership?
- What are the major services of each unit?
- Part D:
- How is performance measured within the system or organization?
- Part E: In relation to healthcare,
- What has been the organization’s major impact within the last ten years?
- Part F: In terms of your own critique,
- Has this organization significantly impacted on healthcare?
- If you could change anything within the organization, what would that change be; how would you accomplish the change; and how would you measure the impact of the change?