Description The Wicomico County Health Department Salisbury Maryland cares for the health of citizens by providing access to opportunities that promote physical, behavioral, and environmental health through precautionary, educational, assessment, clinical, monitoring and regulatory programs.
Formal Structure
The Wicomico County Health Department is departmentalized by programs. The structure was selected because the agency has four programs which includes the following; Psychiatric rehabilitation, Behavioral health, Addiction, and Targeted case management. Each of the program offers divers services that requires specialized knowledge and skills that promotes the emotional health of the resident in the community.
The Psychiatric rehabilitation program provides services to individual with mental illness that needs rehabilitation services to allow them the opportunity to become/remain successful in the …show more content…
On the other hand, the organization has the ability to adapt to change because its policies and structure changes to suit the needs of the client population severed, through evaluation of practice. In addition, the following can also be seen as the organizational strengths including; strengthening the management practices, the recognition of the importance of a sense of competence through training and workshops, putting into consideration the importance of diversity among employees as well as the client population served, the unique needs of each clients are well served, organizational focus are on clients’ needs and preference, ability to incorporate evidenced based research into practice, and resource development for both employees as well as
Formal Structure
The Wicomico County Health Department is departmentalized by programs. The structure was selected because the agency has four programs which includes the following; Psychiatric rehabilitation, Behavioral health, Addiction, and Targeted case management. Each of the program offers divers services that requires specialized knowledge and skills that promotes the emotional health of the resident in the community.
The Psychiatric rehabilitation program provides services to individual with mental illness that needs rehabilitation services to allow them the opportunity to become/remain successful in the …show more content…
On the other hand, the organization has the ability to adapt to change because its policies and structure changes to suit the needs of the client population severed, through evaluation of practice. In addition, the following can also be seen as the organizational strengths including; strengthening the management practices, the recognition of the importance of a sense of competence through training and workshops, putting into consideration the importance of diversity among employees as well as the client population served, the unique needs of each clients are well served, organizational focus are on clients’ needs and preference, ability to incorporate evidenced based research into practice, and resource development for both employees as well as