Human Resources Management for Health Care Organizations: A Strategic Approach

Defining Elements of Progressive Health Care Organizations

Most health care organizations are among the largest employers in their service community and are nonprofit institutions that rely on a very complicated labyrinth of reimbursement funds, charitable contributions, physician fees, and an assortment of other revenue sources to meet their budgetary requirements. Because federal law dictates that no American can be denied health care services from any community medical center's emergency room, for example, health care organizations are perceived to be community bedrocks in the same manner as public schools. Such organizations as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which includes nearly 120 large medical centers employing an average of ...