Hospital

Administration

Types of Hospitals, Hospital

Operations, Hospital and
Professional Liabilities
Types of Hospitals
General - Public
Teaching - Private
Specialized
 General Hospital
Is a kind of major health care facility in which there
are large of numbers for intensive care.
Any large civilian hospital equipped to care for
medical, surgical, maternity and psychiatric cases
and usually has a resident medical staff.
 Teaching Hospitals
- Some hospitals are affiliated with a university,
college, medical school, or nursing school.
- Offer health care to patients while teaching
medical students, physicians, surgeons and
nurses.
 Specialized Hospitals
- Specific medical needs.
- Includes the trauma centers, rehabilitation
hospitals, geriatric hospital, psychiatric
hospitals.
- Specialty specific hospitals for Oncology,
cardiology, orthopedics etc.
 Public Hospital
- Owned by a government and
receives government funding.
- Provides medical care free of
charges.
 Private Hospital
- Owned by a for-profit company or a non-
profit organization.
- Privately funded through payment for
medical services by patient themselves, by
insurers, or by foreign embassies.
Clinic
and
Staffing
 CLINIC
A place or hospital where outpatients are given
medical treatment or advice, especially of a
specialist nature.
Where a group practice in which several
physicians work cooperatively.
 Types of Clinic:
A.) Free Clinic is a volunteer based , a safety net healthcare program,
usually it is located in the neighborhood setting and provides medical
care for the ambulatory patients who at minimal or no cost.

B.) General Outpatients is a general practice facility run by

specialists offering diagnosis, observation, treatment and
rehabilitation without overnight stay.
Free Clinic General
Outpatients Clinic
 C.) Convenient Care Clinics are often found in drug stores and
supermarkets. This types tends to cost less than general outpatient
clinic.
D.) Specialty clinic offers comprehensive type of treatment for
specific ailments. Some specific services that this clinic offers are
dermatology, cardiac, orthopedic, pulmonary, genetics and
neurology.

It is essential to know which type of medical facility suits your

medical needs. Hospital can provide all the health care that a
patient needs but for less risky cases, going to clinics is more
convenient. However, the services of each type of clinics vary.
Convenient Specialty
Care Clinic Clinic
 It is essential to know which type of
medical facility suits your medical
needs. Hospital can provide all the
health care that a patient needs but
for less risky cases, going to clinics
is more convenient. However, the
services of each type of clinics vary.
 STAFFING
Is the process of hiring, positioning and
overseeing employees in an organization.
Skills and qualities are very important if you
want to get a job.
 Four Must-Have Traits For
Hospital Employees
Critical Thinking Skills
Resourcefulness
Collaborative
Technologically Savvy
1. Critical thinking skills.
Healthcare needs people who can think on their feet and solve
unique challenges.
2. Resourcefulness.
Hospital needs employees that are not just doing what they're
told but are individual thinkers who can take care themselves and the
patient.
3. Collaborative.
Employees must also be willing to work closely with colleagues
to solve problems.
 4. Technologically savvy.
Healthcare workers should be technologically
competent. If any employee is challenged by technology, she
recommends pairing him or her with a younger employee
that's more comfortable with technological demands.
HOSPITAL
OPERATION
MANAGEMENT
 What is Hospital Operation
Management?
Health care planners who make decisions
on where to locate and how to organize
hospital services, so as to improve the
geographic equity of access in the delivery
of care while accounting .
Managing a health care facility requires proper management
of all the different divisions inside the hospital.

Each of these divisions represent the different areas of the

hospitals function:
Medical Division Rehabilitation Services
Nursing Division Administrative
Allied Health Departments
Professionals
1) Medical Division- consists primarily of medical physicians, but may
also include other doctoral-level professionals such as dentists and
psychologists. The major role of the medical staff organization is to
recommend to the hospital board of directors the appointment of
physicians to the medical staff. It also provides oversight and peer
review of the quality of medical care in the hospital.
2) Nursing Division- A head nurse, often carrying the title nurse
manager, has the over-all responsibility for all the nursing care in his
or her unit. Such care includes carrying out the attending physicians
orders for medication, diet, and various types of therapy.
3) Allied Health Professionals- these personnel support,
complement, or supplement the functions of physicians,
dentists, nurses, and other professionals in delivering health
care to patients. They contribute to environmental
management, health promotion, and disease prevention.
4) Rehabilitation Services- Rehabilitation or patient support
departments provide specialized care to assist patients in
achieving optimal physical, mental, and social functioning after
resolution of an illness or injury.
5) Administrative Department- other professional units that
provides a wide variety of nonmedical services essential to the
management of the hospitals physical plant and business
services. The general administrative services of the hospital
are headed by a chief executive officer or president who has
the everyday responsibility for managing all hospital
businesses. He or she oversees an array of administrative
departments concerned with financial operations, public
relations, and personnel.
Hospital Operation Management
Implementation and optimum use
of information systems
Strategic Development plans
Setting and Achieving Performance
targets
Defining and implementing
marketing plans that build value for
the hospital
Hospital Operation Management

It provides management teams that manages the:

Clinical & Non- Clinical Operation
Development and implementing of operation procedures and
practices
Work to make efficient use of resources
Hospital
Liabilities
 What is liability?

It is the state of one who is bound in law

and justice to do something which may be
enforced by action. This liability may arise
from contracts either expressed or
implied, or in consequence of torts
committed.
 Hospital Liability
Negligence in a hospital setting encompasses
the whole realm of medical malpractice. It
also applies to the negligence of the hospital
administration.
*malpractice- Improper or illegal activity or treatment especially by a medical
practitioner.
 2 Main Types of Hospital Liability
1) The Hospitals Liability for the Negligence of its
Employees
Different people who might be involved in a medical
malpractice case where legal liability might fall:
Physicians
Most cases of physician negligence:
Misdiagnosis
Mistakes in prescribing or administering medication
Surgical errors
Nurses
Nurses can make mistakes amounting to negligence. Examples are:
Failure to monitor a patient properly
Failure to take an important vital sign
Failure to enter the patients nursing record into the patients chart
Radiology Department
Examples of malpractice:
Misdiagnosis
Errors of communication with referring physicians or patients
Errors in radiological techniques and procedures
2) Hospitals Liability for its Own
Mistakes and Negligence
Direct hospital negligence can include the hospitals
negligence in hiring and supervising its employees.
This is considered to be direct hospital negligence
because these types of issues are overseen by hospital
management.
Hospital negligence includes the following issues:
Negligent hiring of employees
Failure to ensure that its employee health care
providers stay up to date on their licensing
requirements
Failure to fire incompetent, unlicensed, or unsafe
employees
Violating patient confidentiality by losing or
mishandling patient records
Professional
Liabilities
 Professional Liabilities
It is essential that radiographers, just like other health
care professionals, be familiar with their scope of
practice.
Radiographers have their responsibilities.
Any Radiographer who steps outside these guidelines
is making him/herself vulnerable to legal retribution
It is well for Radiographers to recognize that they can be
held legally liable for patient injury.
Four Primary Sources of Law
 THE CONSTITUTION
The Constitution expresses the categorical laws of the country. Its
impact with respect to health care and health professionals lies,
in part, in its insurance of the right to privacy.
The right to Privacy indicates that the patients modesty and
dignity will be respected. It also refers to the health care
professionals obligation to respect the confidentiality of
privileged information to anyone but the appropriate health care
professionals is inexcusable.
 STATUTORY LAW
Refers to laws enacted by congressional, state, or local legislative
bodies.
It is frequently delegated to administrative bureaus.

Examples: Board of Health

The Food and Drug Administration
Internal Revenue Service
It is the responsibility of these agencies to enact rules and
regulations that will serve to implement STATUTORY LAW.
 Court decisions involve the interpretation of statutes and
various regulations in decisions involving individuals
There are two basic kinds of law:
Public Law
Private (civil) Law
Public Laws are any that regulate the relationship between
individuals and the government
Private (civil) Laws includes laws that regulate the
relationship among people
 LITIGATION involving a radiographers professional
practice is most likely to involve the latter.
A Private (civil) injustice or injury is a tort, and the
injured party may seek reparation for damaged
incurred.

Torts are described as:

Intentional
negligent
THREE AREAS OF
FREQUENT LITIGATION
Patient falls and other positioning injuries
Pregnancy
Errors or delays in diagnosis

Res ipsa loquitur the thing speaks for itself

Respondeant superior the master speak for the servant
 Duties and Responsibilities of
a Radiologist
They have to take x-rays of patients that are sent to them by the
doctor.
They have to ensure the complete safety of the patient and
themselves when they are taking the x-rays as exposure to
radiation is completely harmful.
For patients receiving radiation from them, they have to give the
doses according to their doctors and have to remain in consultation
with them.
Duties and Responsibilities of a
Radiologist

Radiologist must be highly efficient their work because

they routinely see hundreds of patients each week.
Radiologists are required to make the patients feel
comfortable before conducting x-rays, MRIs, ultrasound or
CT scans.
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