Religious Health Care

An organizational analysis is an important tool to become familiar with how medical businesses and organizations are able to meet standards of care, provide services for the community and provide employment to health care providers. There are many different aspects to evaluate in an organizational analysis. This paper will describe these many aspects and apply the categories to the University Medical Center (UMC) as the organization being analyzed.

Examine the financial characteristics of health care delivery along with managing costs, revenues, and human resources

The author will be discussing the issues that Catholic Hospitals face in regards to health care policy, and how the regulations of a Catholic hospital can sometimes be debilitating at providing patients different types of care. Catholic health care in the United States advances the health care ministry by caring for people and their communities. Catholic health care in the United States is comprised of more than 600 hundred hospitals and more than 1,400 long-term care and other facilities in all 50 states (Trancik, 2015). It has been analyzed that the Catholic health ministry is the largest group of nonprofit health care providers in the nation. Every day, one-in-six patients in the United States is cared for in a

Many are times nurses that the efforts of nurses’ medical interventions have been rejected by the patient owing to their religious beliefs. As such this paper details out the dilemma, the nurses faces while taking care of Jehovah Witness patients and the actions they take to treat the patient without violating their rights.

The debate over non-profit versus for-profit healthcare organization has been ongoing, does one provide better care than the other? Do the operations of for profit perform better than the non-profit organizations? Are the criticisms about for-profit organization validated and is there proof? The goal is to examine those questions as well as offer options to improve the financial and operational performance of non-profit and for-profit organizations criticisms.

The way we practice healthcare and healthcare organizations are changing due to the pressure to reduce costs, improve the quality of care and to meet rigorous guidelines. This change has forced health care professionals to examine we evaluate our overall performance. Paradise Hospital, Inc. has not had any service improvements since 1995. A physician named Avedis Donabedian (2005) proposed a model for assessing health care quality based on structures, processes, and outcomes. He defined structure as the environment in which health care is provided. This is known as the organizational characteristics such as the measurement of staffing ratios and the number of hospital beds. The process is described as the method by which health care is provided. This represents the communication and interaction seen between doctor and patient. The necessity for the tests and procedures performed. The outcome is defined as the consequence of the health care provided, was there a desirable or undesirable effect.

The debate on whether all healthcare institution should be non-profit rises many issues and they have been heavily debated. The best way to examine this to analyze if non-profit hospitals are in fact better that for

The United States (U.S.) has always been the melting pot of the world, resulting in a diverse spiritual community. Christianity is still the predominant religion, but a recent survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life details the shifts taking place in the U.S. According to the study, 28 percent of American adults have left the faith of their upbringing for another religion, or no religion at all. The number of people that claim no affiliation with any particular faith is rising, and the number of people practicing non-Christian religions is increasing (Pew Forum 2010).

By far, the Catholic Churches Healthcare Systems is one of the largest integrated health care systems. Catholic Healthcare Associations (CHA) integrates the progression of the Catholic health ministry of the United States with caring for people and communities of all faiths and believes. The CHA consist of “more than 600 hospitals and 1,400 long-term care and other health facilities in all 50 states, the Catholic health ministry is the largest group of nonprofit health care providers in the nation,” (Catholic Health Care in the United, 2016). This health care system provides a wide range of services to more than approximately 20 million patients annually just in the area of emergency medicine, there is an average of six million patients admitted to Catholic based hospitals.

Stacy Suda is a senior majoring in public health and is an active member in the Society for Human Resource Management. This combination of her interests has directed her to pursuing this topic. Through public health courses, such as PH 430: Health Policy and Management, the student learned about the important role of management in directing resources to successfully achieve the goals and objectives of non-profit organizations. Through PH 203: Global Health, the student learned the importance of non-profit organizations in providing services to high-need communities. Meanwhile, her interest in human resource management has motivated her to identify how organizations with limited resources are able to continue providing high quality services.

Obria Medical Clinics are faith-based facilities for the community that offers pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, STD testing, abortion information, prenatal care and well woman care. They give support and answers for anyone’s sexual health. Obria helps to walk through all options and questions a woman may have when facing a possible pregnancy. The doctors, nurses, and volunteers all offer a space for patients to be open, ask questions, and get answers.

A health care system is the association of institutions related to people's health and resources. It delivers health services in order to meet the health needs of the targeted populations (Nigam, 2011). There is a wide variation in the world of how different nations organize their health care systems, with almost all nations having differing health care organizational structures. Planning in some countries for health care distributes to those participating in markets. In other countries, however, planning is as a result of joint efforts between the government, religious bodies, and charities among other groups (Nigam, 2011).

Paradise Hospital, Inc. is a for-profit hospital. As the facility’s new hospital administrator, you have been tasked with improving the service value of the hospital. The administration has not done this process since the hospital began operating in the year 1995. The investors are not familiar with the value proposition strategies of hospitals in the current day America.

Though they are not entirely comprehensive tools, a great deal can be learned about a hospital or other healthcare organization for-profit or not-for-profit from an examination of their annual financial documents (Finkler & Ward, 2006). The balance sheet and statement of revenue and expense can both yield valuable clues even in the absence of other evidence about changes that might be occurring in the organization, a definition of the type and degree of certain problems that it might be facing, and potential opportunities for improvement in performance that might exist (Finkler & Ward, 2006). Comparing two or more years' worth of financial information yields even more valuable insights, tracking movement in the hospital or other organization's ability to finance its activities and thus continue providing services at the same level, quantity, and scope as current operation.

Importantly, other reports and documents were cross checked from the five (5) Faith Based Organizations as a way of making follow on responses gathered from the informants. The aim of this is to have basic documents and reports that outlined the achievements and or development work performed by Faith Based Organizations. In line with the above mentioned, the researcher identified documents that address development works, such as strategies and programs report.