SMU MBA ASSIGNMENTS

It is absolutely essential to increase the level of efficiency for the development and prosperity of an organization. The hospitals, having accepted the responsibility of serving the social interests need to focus on the acceleration of productivity because; cost effectiveness is a must to make the services economical and affordable to the masses

The hospital administrators bear the responsibility of hospital organization and departmentation because they are supposed to accelerate the pace of development. Although the top management takes policy decisions related to the hospital organization and departmentation, the functional responsibilities are discharged by the administrator and his team of managers.

The main objective of the hospital organization is “care of sick” or “good patient care” for which medical and its support services are very significant. It is not possible for a single department to take care of the medical services, nursing services, radiology and lab services. The concept of departmentation was to improve the “quality of service” and improve the level of efficiency.

There are different classifications of a hospital, based on objectives; size of hospital; system of medicine followed; level of care provided; nature of ownership and revenue generation.

1. Based on objectives the hospital may be classified as:

— General hospital

— Specialty hospital

— Teaching and research institute

2. Based on the system of medicine followed:

— Allopathy i.e. English medicine

— Ayurveda

— Homeopathy

— Naturopathy

— Unani

— Multi system i.e. hospitals which follow combinations of various systems of medicine

3. Based on the size:

— Small sized hospital i.e. bed capacity of about 100 beds

— Medium sized hospital i.e. bed capacity ranging from 100-300 beds

— Large sized hospital i.e. above 500 beds

4. Based on revenue generation:

— Not- for- profit hospitals i.e. those run by voluntary organizations

— Free hospitals i.e. where charges are not levied for services provided

— For- profit hospitals

5. Based on the ownership:

— Government /public hospitals

— Semi- government hospitals

— Voluntary/ Trust hospitals

— Corporate hospitals

— Private hospitals

— Charitable hospitals

6. Based on location:

— Village/panchayat hospitals

— Town hospitals

— City/metro hospitals

7. Based on the level of care provided:

— Primary care

— Secondary care

— Tertiary care