Introduction
The Healthcare system has its administration because it is an essential part of any activity. Everywhere a manager is needed, a person who would structure, give vectors and make effective decisions. Moreover, healthcare administrator has to make decisions considering competing interests and values, and such a task is a big responsibility to bear. Despite all the difficulties, the administration is necessary and has an essential role in many areas.
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For example, health equity has a problem that demands a manager’s intervention to solve it. There are several actions that he can take: firstly, care for patients from discriminated groups of people can become a priority, all other things being equal. Secondly, a manager can establish regular checks on their health status using the telephone, which will help prevent readmission. Another issue in the healthcare system is quality data transparency. It is about ratings of hospitals that are assumed to allow patients to choose where to go. The administration’s role here can be manifested in creating an objective system of ratings that would consider all conditions of different hospitals.
Furthermore, administrators can formulate relative criteria by which a hospital’s activity would be rated. Managers can also solve another problem related to behavior protocols in hospitals. Punke and Zimmerman (2017) note that “23 percent of all emergency department shootings involved guns stolen from hospital security”; it demands the intervention of the administration (para 28). The administration can provide more trained security and behavior protocols that would decrease such cases.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it is crucial to see the administration’s influence on the whole healthcare system, understanding that not all problems are clinical. Some issues demand another form of solving on the management level. Health equity, quality data transparency, and behavioral protocols are some of them. Administrators take definite actions in solving these problems and minimize factors that inhibit operations improvement; their role is no less important than that of the physician.
Reference
Punke, H., & Zimmerman, B. (2017). 10 Top patient safety issues for 2017. Becker’s Healthcare. Web.