Case Study 5: Middleboro Community Hospital
Middleboro Community Hospital (MCH) was inaugurated in 1890, which is a nonprofit hospital and providing care for over a hundred years. For a successful organization to prosper, the governing board should support together to discover the strength and weaknesses of its own organization to stay viable. This organization has been in the business for 127 years, so why consider an asset merger or sale to a for-profit corporation? Indeed, there were numerous problems encountered through the years, namely, frequent staff changes, downsizing the inpatient capacity, lacking a day care program for dependents of its own employees, mental patients occupying 12 of 27 beds in emergency department, and dropping of inpatient hospital admissions. Consequently, the easiest way is to sell the organization to make a profit? According to K.R. White and J.R. Griffith (2013), “the purpose of the governing board of a well-managed Health Care Organization (HCO) is to create and maintain a foundation for relationships among the stakeholders that identifies and implements their wishes as …show more content…
Organization like MCH does not just come and go because board are trying to eliminate or downsize conflicting process for its viability. Furthermore, hiring/retaining knowledgeable and experienced employees who are loyal to the employer and their duties and responsibilities will be beneficial for the success of the organization. As long as the employees are gaining knowledge through seminar or in-service to stay on top of the rapidly changing and complicated healthcare industry, then it is sufficed to say to acquire that talent instead of letting them
Middleboro Community Hospital (MCH) was inaugurated in 1890, which is a nonprofit hospital and providing care for over a hundred years. For a successful organization to prosper, the governing board should support together to discover the strength and weaknesses of its own organization to stay viable. This organization has been in the business for 127 years, so why consider an asset merger or sale to a for-profit corporation? Indeed, there were numerous problems encountered through the years, namely, frequent staff changes, downsizing the inpatient capacity, lacking a day care program for dependents of its own employees, mental patients occupying 12 of 27 beds in emergency department, and dropping of inpatient hospital admissions. Consequently, the easiest way is to sell the organization to make a profit? According to K.R. White and J.R. Griffith (2013), “the purpose of the governing board of a well-managed Health Care Organization (HCO) is to create and maintain a foundation for relationships among the stakeholders that identifies and implements their wishes as …show more content…
Organization like MCH does not just come and go because board are trying to eliminate or downsize conflicting process for its viability. Furthermore, hiring/retaining knowledgeable and experienced employees who are loyal to the employer and their duties and responsibilities will be beneficial for the success of the organization. As long as the employees are gaining knowledge through seminar or in-service to stay on top of the rapidly changing and complicated healthcare industry, then it is sufficed to say to acquire that talent instead of letting them