Human Resources Management for Health Care Organizations: A Strategic Approach

Profile of a Progressive Health Care Organization

Given all of these realities, a successful health care organization must be structured to maintain timely response capabilities proactive planning, and sustained growth to meet the needs of a demanding constituency of customer-patients.

Figure 1.2 illustrates the functional composition of a progressive health care organization. Consider as an example the most common form of health care organization, which is a local, community-driven medical center. This representation not only is typical of the organizational dynamics at the majority of health care organizations but also contains components that can easily be extracted, reduced, or expanded to represent all health care organizations. This example ...