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In order to keep up with the pace of the growing needs; health care organizations, at a macro and a micro level, should continuously strive to provide quality at an effective and efficient manner. Health care organizations should realize the fact that the needs are going to increase even more and the more the needs increase higher is the accountability going to be. Health care is said to be a complicated system that has multiple stakeholders and each stakeholder has different set of responsibilities which contribute to the provision of any health care organization. It is the duty of the authorities to ensure that the stakeholders are taken care of and that there are no internal barriers that are a source of hindrance for the organization to attain the forecasted patient care outcome.

In order to ensure that there are effective provision of services it is mandatory to ensure that internal barriers such as staffing structure problems are resolved as well as proper continuing development program are made use of to solve the issues associated with Kareless Best Health hospital.

Staffing Structures

Considering the fact that Kareless Best Health hospital has been facing severe staff shortage which is the root cause problem when it comes to attending the customers on time as well as providing service quality it becomes mandatory for them to implement a different staffing structure so that the current employees in terms of the x-ray department are not only able to provide service quality but also boost their competency levels to ensure that they are able to cooperate with the incoming structural change with respect to the new Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scanners, Picture Archiving Communication System (PACS) as well as the updated Digital Radiography facility. Staffing structures that the hospital can utilize to tackle problems from the root can be divided into Macro and a micro level.

Macro Level

Figure 1: Structure at a Macro Level

This particular structure is now being used in many hospitals to ensure that the hospital becomes efficient in doing what it does best. There are many advantages to adopting such kind of medical staff structure. The advantages are that each department, be it the internal medicine department, the family practice department, the neurology department, the psychiatry department or the radiology department feels that at a micro level have more input or more say in the policies that are linked to patient care and the working of their own department. It also gives them the right to better advocate or control the patients that are concerned with their department considering the fact that their issues and problems are being heard by an authority that understands as well as comprehends with the unique practice of radiology. Having different specialized departments ensures the fact that they issues are being catered to instantly and that the issue is completely comprehended and communicated to the higher authority from the radiology's standpoint. Such structure would also ensure the effective provision of monthly staff meetings which will ensure that the concerns, problems as ...