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Baylor Scott & White Health is the largest not-for-profit health care system in Texas and one of the largest in the United States. Comprised of Baylor Health Care System, based in Dallas, Texas and Scott and White Healthcare, based in Temple, Texas, the two entities merged in October 2013 to provide a new vision and more resources while continuing to offer exceptional patient care (Baylor Scott & White, 2015). Baylor Scott & White Health includes “43 hospitals, more

In a simple definition, shared governance is one of the most innovative and idealistic of organization structures, was developed in the mid-1980s as an alternative to the traditional bureaucratic organization structure (Huston & Marquis, 2004). Shared governance is based on the principals of equity, accountability, ownership, and partnership. This process of management allows each healthcare worker to have a voice in the decision-making and encourage input that will help grow the business and healthcare missions of the organization. In all, it makes each healthcare employee feel as if they are involved with a personal part in the success of the organization. The more employees who are satisfied with

Establish top-down and cross-functional business-health IT governance. Include a chartered business-IT steering group to provide oversight, share corporate aspirations, and provide strategic direction. Also, the chartered steering committee will establish a focused workgroup. This workgroup must include broad representation from corporate, program offices, field-level stakeholders, mobilizers, and thought leaders.

health and safety procedures and practises should be under continual scrutiny and areas for improvement should be monitored and dealt with. A good method of monitoring & improving are health, safety and security procedures are visually. Check visitors have signed in the visitor’s book, look for items blocking fire exits or hallways, wet signs are in place during cleaning, COSHH cupboards are kept locked, medication trolleys are secure, hoists are clean and stored in a correct storage place. Policies and procedures need to be reviewed regularly to ensure they are still relevant, circumstances in workplace can change and new risk assessments will need to be put in place or old ones reviewed. Policies and procedures may need evaluating and developing

Unit 4222-306 Promote and implement health and safety in health and social care (HSC 037)

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“Running a health care organization is a team sport. It is very important that all members of the team-whether on the medical staff, in management or on the board-understand the role of governance and what constitutes effective governance” (Arnwine, 2002). Running a hospital is a difficult task. Several factors need to be seriously thought of and considered in every decision and undertaking. Unfortunately, all the three important factors in governing a hospital is not always in harmony. As likened to a team sport, if the three major components are not working with each other as a team, there will be tension and a great divide will be experienced. And often times, the patients will be in the middle and will be greatly impacted. This writer believes that there are several factors that contribute to the tension that usually exists among the medical staff, the board and administration. One factor is the disconnect, where each entity is not seeing each other eye to eye and their visions may be different from each other. Another factor may be the lack of communication in order to bridge the gap and to build a respectful and a relationship wherein there is trust for each end every member of the group. Often times, the medical staff is concerned with ensuring that patients are cared for in a manner that their practice is protected as well as the patients are getting the appropriate care. On the other hand, the board of trustees may be focused in ensuring that that

In conclusion, this paper explored the strengths and weaknesses of this organization. A weakness is identified and improvement is recommended to create a Patient Advisory Council in the Shared Governance to promote better patient-centered care. In doing so, patients will have sense of empowerment by having their input in the plan of care. To measure the success of the recommended change, the use of HCAHPS and patient metrics are utilized and compared nationally.

The governance of the Northwell health system is carried out by members of Northwell’s CEO, Vice-presidents, Corporate board of directors, Chairpersons and heads of departments and its shareholders. Implementing the pyramid shape structure of administrative management, at the summit, leading its health system is the President and Chief executive officer of Michael J. Dowling. Dowling has proven himself to be an exceptionally outstanding charismatic organizational leaders throughout his 14years at Northwell Health. He is responsible for

The councilor model is used by Magnet Hospitals and it is the most popular. Hospitals do not have to be Magnet to have this shared governance structure. The main tenets of this structure is

Baylor Scott & White Healthcare is an organization known for setting up a culture of quality healthcare to its clients. It is an integrated healthcare system located north of Texas. The organization has been working on its own health care quality improvement for over 100 years. One of the lessons it emerged with after a century’s journey is inculcating a culture of quality that would run to all its stakeholders.

Would you like to meet at a different time, we are flexible? If not, we are available at 3 p.m. Eastern time (2 p.m. Central our time). Aaron has a meeting at 10 a.m. Today. At 12 p.m. Today, Steve, Brad, Aaron, and I will be attending a safety committee meeting. Respectfully, Shannon Moreland Safety and Health Manager

Finally, power sharing is seen as ‘sharing of government responsibility and political co-operation between the two partners’ (Gottlieb et al., 2005, p. 8). Specifically, among health and social care service professionals and providers, power sharing may be the prerequisite factor to develop a collaborative partnership relationship.

The division of nursing is in the early stages of implementing shared governance, which has resulted in a more formal staff communication through the various councils. In addition, departmental meetings and house wide town hall meetings take place. Email is the main form of daily leadership communication and is at times utilized with staff. However, accessibility has been difficult especially for the non-licensed staff. A monthly newsletter is published through a shared governance task force which includes a message from the CNO.

With the ever changing times, people suggest that a new form of leadership, shared leadership, where power is distributed may be more effective than the traditional hierarchal structure of leadership. However, with this idea of changing workplace structure, one must remember why the hierarchal structure of leadership has worked for so long. Hierarchical leadership is important to the workplace because employees are motivated to perform to improve their status in the company, feel open to voice concerns their leaders, and there are peaceful interactions between same level group members. Others will suggest that shared leadership is more effective because it offers the opportunity for everyone to be involved and the chance for innovation that would lack in the traditional form of leadership.